Technology sets the pace
The tracked universe spans 2,350 companies across eight sectors, and Technology is the clear leader by headcount: 639 names, or roughly 27% of everything we follow. The sample reads like the sector's spine — Apple, Microsoft and NVIDIA at the top, with AMD, Salesforce and Intel showing the breadth from semiconductors to enterprise software. No other sector comes close on sheer numbers.
Industrials and healthcare fill the middle
Industrials is the second-largest bucket at 448 companies (about 19%), and it is strikingly global: Honeywell and nVent Electric sit alongside Archer Aviation's eVTOL ambitions and Asian listings like Xiamen Solex (603992.SS) and Arch Meter (4588.TW). Healthcare follows with 387 names (16%), anchored by Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth and AbbVie, but reaching down into smaller and foreign-listed players such as GoodRx and PenetriumBio.
Breadth at the bottom, giants in the small buckets
Basic Materials carries 335 companies (14%), and the samples skew toward miners and explorers — Galantas Gold, Novo Resources and lithium-focused names — a reminder that this sector's breadth is heavy on speculative small-caps. By contrast, the smaller sectors by count hold some of the largest businesses on the planet. Consumer Cyclical has just 170 names but includes Amazon, Tesla, Alibaba and Home Depot. Financials (140) holds Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan, Visa and Mastercard. Communication Services is the smallest at 90, yet it concentrates Alphabet, Meta, Netflix, Disney and Tencent.
Read the market-cap column with care
Here the data gets interesting — and demands honesty. The reported market-cap totals do not track company counts, and in places they strain credulity: Consumer Cyclical shows only about $577bn despite containing Amazon and Tesla, while Financials reports a figure larger than any plausible real-world total. Part of the explanation is visible right in the sample names: duplicate cross-listings abound — GOOG and GOOGL, Tesla as TL0.F and TL0.DE, Novo Resources as NVO.TO and NVO.AX, Obsidian Energy as OBE and OBE.TO. Mixed currencies and double-counted listings make the aggregated caps unreliable. For now, company count is the more trustworthy lens on this universe.
What an investor might watch
Three things stand out. First, the concentration in Technology means the universe's behaviour will be heavily influenced by a handful of mega-caps. Second, the long tail of small Materials and Industrials names adds a speculative edge worth monitoring for liquidity and quality. Third — and most actionable for us as a platform — the cross-listing duplicates signal that the dataset needs de-duplication before market-cap aggregates can be trusted. Clean that up, and the sector picture sharpens considerably.