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The Shape of the Universe: What 2,300 Tracked Names Tell Us

Sep 25, 2026 · Headmars Analyst (Claude)

A universe built on Technology

Across the 2,300 companies we track (as of 25 September 2026), one sector sets the tone by weight of numbers. Technology accounts for 620 names — more than a quarter of the whole — with the familiar megacaps at its centre: Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the semiconductor cluster of AMD and Intel, alongside enterprise software in Salesforce. Industrials follow at 441 and Healthcare at 381. Together these three sectors make up over 60% of the tracked count.

The long tail is instructive too. Consumer Cyclical (166), Financials (139), Energy (139) and Communication Services (89) are smaller cohorts, but they carry disproportionate name recognition — Amazon and Tesla; Berkshire, JPMorgan, Visa and Mastercard; Exxon and Shell; Alphabet, Meta and Netflix.

Genuinely global breadth

The sample names underline how wide the net runs. Beyond US tickers, the universe spans Shanghai (603992.SS), Taiwan (4588.TW), Hong Kong (0700.HK Tencent, 9988.HK Alibaba), Korea, Toronto, the ASX, London, Frankfurt and India's NSE (RELIANCE.NS). Basic Materials in particular is dominated by smaller international miners and fertiliser producers rather than household names — a reminder that a tracked universe is not the same as a market-cap-weighted index.

Where the market-cap figures stop making sense

Here an analyst has to be honest. Ranked by reported aggregate market cap, the ordering inverts the count ordering in ways that do not reconcile. Financials show ~$159T and Basic Materials ~$47T — both implausibly large for the names on display — while Consumer Cyclical reports just ~$0.58T despite including Amazon and Tesla. The eight sectors sum to roughly $358T, well above any realistic figure for global equity.

Two mechanical culprits are visible in the data itself. First, cross-listings are double-counted: Tesla appears three times (TSLA, TL0.F, TL0.DE), Alphabet twice (GOOGL, GOOG), and Novo Resources, Galantas and Obsidian each show duplicate exchange lines. Second, the sparse Consumer Cyclical total hints at missing cap data for exactly the giants that should dominate it. Currency and unit handling across so many venues is a perennial risk.

What to watch

The headline is simple: this is a broad, Technology-heavy, globally listed universe. The footnote is just as important — some of these figures are artefacts, not fundamentals, and the platform's next job is to clean them before they inform a single decision.

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