Breadth lives in Technology
Across the 2,416 companies in the tracked universe on 24 October 2026, Technology is the single widest sector by headcount: 652 names, or roughly 27% of everything we follow. Industrials (462) and Healthcare (398) complete the top three, and together with Technology they account for about 63% of all tracked tickers. Basic Materials adds another 346. The long tail — Consumer Cyclical (176), Financials (144), Energy (143) and Communication Services (95) — is where the universe thins out by count.
If your job were simply to decide how many companies to screen, you would spend most of your time in tech and industrials.
Market cap tells a different — and messier — story
Weight by aggregate market capitalisation and the ranking inverts. Financials lead at about $159.5T reported, followed by Energy ($106.6T) and Basic Materials ($47.2T). Technology, despite its 652 constituents, shows just $23.1T — behind three sectors that carry far fewer names. Consumer Cyclical, home to Amazon and Tesla, reports the smallest aggregate of all at roughly $0.58T.
Treat those totals with caution. A Financials sector averaging over $1T per company, or Energy outweighing all of Technology, does not match how public equity markets actually distribute. The more defensible read here is relative breadth, not these aggregate dollar figures.
Notable names
The marquee tickers sit where you would expect. AAPL, MSFT and NVDA anchor Technology; JNJ, UNH and ABBV lead Healthcare; AMZN and TSLA head Consumer Cyclical; BRK.B, JPM, V and MA populate Financials; XOM, SHEL.L and RELIANCE.NS carry Energy; GOOGL, META and NFLX dominate Communication Services. Industrials is the most eclectic bucket — Honeywell (HON) and Archer Aviation (ACHR) alongside listings from Xiamen and Taiwan.
A note on data hygiene
The sample names expose a real problem: duplicate cross-listings. GOOG and GOOGL, Tesla as both TL0.F and TL0.DE, Novo Resources as NVO.TO and NVO.AX, Galantas Gold as GAL.V and GAL.L, Obsidian Energy as OBE and OBE.TO — the same economic entity appears more than once. That inflates both company counts and, especially, aggregate market cap, and it is the most likely culprit behind the implausible sector totals above.
What to watch
Two things. First, breadth concentration: with over a quarter of the universe in Technology, tech-sector moves will dominate screen-level signal whether or not they dominate any given portfolio. Second, data normalisation — de-duplicating cross-listings should be a prerequisite before anyone leans on sector-weight or market-cap analytics drawn from this universe.