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Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories is engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of a range of health care products. The company's reportable segments are: established pharmaceutical products, which includes a range of generic pharmaceuticals; diagnostic products, which includes a range of diagnostic systems and tests; nutritional products, which includes a range of pediatric and adult nutritional products; and medical devices, which includes a range of rhythm management, electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular and structural heart devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes care products for people with diabetes, as well as neuromodulation devices.

ArcelorMittal

Avantor Inc.

Avantor is a global provider of mission critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education and government, and advanced technologies and applied materials industries. The company's comprehensive offerings, which include materials & consumables, equipment & instrumentation and services and specialty procurement, are relied upon by its customers, often on a recurring basis, because they are frequently specified into their research, development and production processes. The company operates in more than 30 countries and deliver an extensive portfolio of mission critical products, services and solutions.

Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. Class A

Bio-Rad Laboratories is a manufacturer and distributor of its own life science research and clinical diagnostics products. The company has two primary segments: Life Science, which is engaged in the life sciences market and develops, manufactures and markets reagents, apparatus and laboratory instruments; and Clinical Diagnostics, which designs, manufactures, sells and supports test systems, informatics systems, test kits and quality controls that serve clinical laboratories in the diagnostics market. The company sells its products and services to a client base comprised of scientific research, healthcare, education and government customers.

CAE Inc.

CAE designs, manufactures and supplies simulation equipment, provide training, and develops integrated training solutions for defence and security markets, commercial airlines, business aircraft operators, helicopter operators, aircraft manufacturers and for healthcare education and service providers. Co.'s flight simulators replicate aircraft performance in normal and abnormal operations as well as a set of environmental conditions utilizing visual systems that contain a database of airports, other landing areas, flying environments, mission-specific environments, and motion and sound cues. Co. provides a range of flight training devices based on the same software used on its simulators.

Charles River Laboratories International Inc.

Charles River Laboratories International is a contract research organization. The company has a laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services. The company's segments are: Research Models and Services, which supplies research models to the drug development industry; Discovery and Safety Assessment (DSA), which provides DSA services, including in vitro and in vivo studies, laboratory support services, and strategic non-clinical consulting and program management to support product development; and Manufacturing Support, which ensures the production and release of products manufactured by the company's clients.

Cognex Corporation

Cognex is a provider of machine vision products that capture and analyze visual information in order to automate manufacturing and distribution tasks where vision is required. Machine vision products are used to automate the manufacture and tracking of discrete items, such as mobile phones, aspirin bottles, and automobile tires, by locating, identifying, inspecting, and measuring them during the manufacturing or distribution process. The company provides a range of machine vision systems and sensors, vision software, and industrial image-based barcode readers. The company's products also have a variety of physical forms, depending upon the user's needs.

EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORP

Edwards Lifesciences is engaged in patient-focused medical for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. The company is a manufacturer of heart valve systems and repair products used to replace or repair a patient's diseased or defective heart valve. The company is also engaged in hemodynamic and noninvasive brain and tissue oxygenation monitoring systems used to measure a patient's cardiovascular function in the hospital setting. The company's products and technologies are categorized into four main areas: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies, Surgical Structural Heart, and Critical Care.

ENOVIS CORPORATION

FIRE & FLOWERS HLDGS CORP

Fortinet Inc.

Fortinet provides cybersecurity solutions. The company's product offerings consist of its FortiGate product family and its non-FortiGate products. The company's FortiGate hardware and software licenses are sold with a set of security services. These security services are enabled by FortiGuard, which provides threat research and artificial intelligence capabilities from a global cloud network to deliver protection services to each FortiGate appliance. The company's non-FortiGate products include the Fortinet Security Fabric (such as FortiAP, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch and FortiManager), certain cloud security products (such as virtual machines and cloud services) and other products.

Garmin Ltd.

Green Dot Corporation Class A

Green Dot is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a collection of banking and financial services products marketed directly to consumers through its banking platforms. The company's reportable segments include: Account Services, which provides several deposit account programs that can be acquired through its omni-channel branchless distribution platform, including consumer and small business checking account products, network-branded reloadable prepaid debit cards and secured credit programs; and Processing and Settlement Services, which provides several products and services that engage in facilitating the movement of funds on behalf of consumers and businesses.

Hanesbrands Inc.

Hanesbrands is a marketer of basic innerwear and activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia/Pacific under some apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Bonds, DIM, Maidenform, Bali, Playtex, Lovable, Bras N Things, Nur Die/Nur Der, Alternative, L'eggs, JMS/Just My Size, Wonderbra, and Gear for Sports. The company's segments are: Innerwear, which includes apparel products, such as men's underwear, women's panties, children's underwear, socks and intimate apparel; Activewear, which includes T-shirts, fleece, performance apparel, sport shirts and thermals; and International, which includes innerwear, activewear, hosiery and home goods products, sold outside of the United States.

Helios Technologies Inc.

Helios Technologies develops and manufactures solutions for both the hydraulics and electronics markets. The company operates in two segments: Hydraulics and Electronics. The Hydraulics segment consists of all of the Sun Hydraulics, LLC (Sun Hydraulics), Faster S.r.l. and Custom Fluidpower Pty Ltd. Sun Hydraulics manufactures screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves, electro-hydraulics, manifolds, and integrated package solutions. The Electronics segment, comprised of Enovation Controls, LLC, is a provider of electronic control, display and instrumentation solutions for both recreational and off-highway vehicles, as well as stationary and power generation equipment.

IHS HLDG LTD

Innoviva Inc.

Innoviva is a company with a portfolio of royalties that include respiratory assets. The company's Long-Acting Beta2 Agonist (LABA) collaboration has developed the combination products: RELVAR? /BREO? ELLIPTA?, a once-daily combination medicine consisting of a LABA, vilanterol (VI), and an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS), fluticasone furoate (FF); ANORO? ELLIPTA?, a once-daily medicine combining a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA), umeclidinium bromide (UMEC), with a LABA, VI; and RELEGY? ELLIPTA? (the combination FF/UMEC/VI), a once-daily combination medicine consisting of an ICS, LAMA and LABA.

Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation

Integra LifeSciences Holdings is a medical devices company engaged in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of surgical implants and medical instruments. The company manufactures and sells its products in the following two reportable business segments: Codman Specialty Surgical, which includes technologies in dural repair, ultrasonic tissue ablation, intracranial cranial pressure monitoring, hydrocephalus management, and cranial stabilization systems; and Orthopedics and Tissue Technologies, which focus on addressing soft tissue, nerve, and tendon repairs as well as reconstruction in the hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder, ankle and foot.

Intel Corporation

Intel is a data-centric company. The company's operating segments are: Data Center Group, which develops platforms for compute, storage, and network functions; Internet of Things Group, which facilitates its customers creating, storing, and processing data; Mobileye, which provides assistance and automation solutions; Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, which provides memory and storage products based on Intel? Optane? technology and Intel? 3D NAND technology; Programmable Solutions Group, which provides programmable semiconductors; and Client Computing Group, which connects people to data, allowing each person to focus, create, and engage in ways that unlock their individual potential.

Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.

Interpublic Group of Companies is an advertising and marketing services company. The company's segment include: Integrated Agency Networks (IAN) and Constituency Management Group (CMG). Within IAN, the company's agencies provide an array of communications and marketing services, each providing a range of solutions for its clients. In addition, the company's domestic integrated agencies provide a range of advertising, marketing communications services and/or marketing services and partner with its operating divisions as needed. CMG provides clients with services, including public relations, meeting and event production, sports and entertainment marketing, corporate and brand identity, and marketing consulting.

JELD-WEN Holding Inc.

JELD-WEN Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a door and window manufacturer. The company designs, produces, and distributes a range of interior and exterior doors, wood, vinyl, and aluminum windows, and related products for use in the construction and repair and remodel of residential homes and, to a lesser extent, non-residential buildings. The company markets its products under the JELD-WEN brand, along with several brands such as Swedoor and DANA in Europe and Corinthian, Stegbar, and Trend in Australia. The company's customers include wholesale distributors and retailers as well as individual contractors and consumers. The company has three segments: North America, Europe, and Australasia.

LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL S.A.

Logitech International is a holding company. Co. designs, manufactures and markets products that enable people to connect through music, gaming, video, computing, and other digital platforms. Co.'s products include: mobile speakers, which comprises portable wireless Bluetooth speakers; Audio-PC & Wearables, which comprises PC speakers, headsets, in-ear headphones and wireless audio wearable; gaming, which provides a range of gaming gear for gamers; video collaboration; home, which includes its home entertainment controllers and products dedicated to controlling emerging categories pointing devices; keyboards & combos; tablet & other accessories; and PC webcams.

Mohawk Industries Inc.

Mohawk Industries is a global flooring manufacturer for residential and commercial spaces around the world. The company has three segments: Global Ceramic, which designs, manufactures, sources, distributes and markets a line of ceramic, porcelain and natural stone tile products used for floor and wall applications; Flooring North America, which designs, manufactures, sources and distributes broadloom carpet, carpet tile, rugs and mats, carpet pad, laminate, medium-density fiberboard, luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and sheet vinyl; and Flooring Rest of the World, which designs, manufactures, sources and distributes laminate, LVT and sheet vinyl, wood flooring, broadloom carpet and carpet tile collections.

Novavax Inc.

Novavax is a late-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases. The company's vaccine candidates, including its primary candidates, ResVax? and NanoFlu?, are genetically engineered, three-dimensional nanostructures of recombinant proteins critical to disease pathogenesis. The company's product pipeline targets a variety of infectious diseases. The company is also developing immune stimulating saponin-based adjuvants through its wholly owned Swedish subsidiary, Novavax AB. The company's primary adjuvant, Matrix-M?, has been shown to improve immune responses and was well-tolerated in multiple clinical trials.

Odel PLC

OSHKOSH CORP

Oshkosh is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of access equipment, specialty vehicles and truck bodies for the primary markets of access equipment, defense, fire and emergency and municipal, refuse hauling, concrete placement as well as airport services. The company's segments are: access equipment, which designs and manufactures aerial work platforms and telehandlers; defense, which designs and manufactures tactical wheeled vehicles and related service; fire and emergency, which designs and manufactures fire apparatus assembled on custom chassis; and commercial, which designs and manufactures front- and rear-discharge concrete mixers and portable and stationary concrete batch plants.

Pan American Silver Corp.

Pan American Silver is engaged in the production and sale of silver, gold and other base metals including copper, lead and zinc as well as other related activities, including exploration, extraction, processing, refining and reclamation. Co.'s primary product (silver) is produced in Peru, Mexico, Argentina and Bolivia. Additionally, Co. has project development activities in Peru, Mexico and Argentina, and exploration activities throughout South America and Mexico.

Proto Labs Inc.

Proto Labs is a digital manufacturer of custom prototypes and production parts. The company's primary manufacturing product lines include Injection Molding, which uses three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design-to-computer numerical control (CNC) machining technology for the automated design and manufacture of molds; CNC Machining, which uses commercially available CNC machines to provide milling and turning; 3D Printing, which includes stereolithography, selective laser sintering, direct metal laser sintering, Multi Jet Fusion and PolyJet processes; and Sheet Metal, which includes e-commerce-enabled custom sheet metal parts, providing customers with prototype and low-volume production parts.

Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Class A

Scotts Miracle-Gro is a manufacturer and marketer of consumer lawn and garden products in North America. The company's segments are: United States Consumer, which consists of the company's consumer lawn and garden business located in United States; Hawthorne, which consists of the company's indoor, urban and hydroponic gardening business; and Other, which consists of the company's consumer lawn and garden business in geographies other than the United States and the company's product sales to nurseries, greenhouses and other customers. The company manufactures, markets and sells lawn and garden products in the following categories: lawn care, gardening and landscape, hydroponics, and controls.

Semtech Corporation

Semtech is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. The company operates in one reportable segment through three product lines: signal integrity, which includes optical data communications and video transport products used in a variety of enterprise computing, communications, and industrial applications; protection, which are referred to as transient voltage suppressors that provides protection for electronic systems where voltage spikes; and wireless and sensing, which includes LoRa? devices and wireless radio frequency technology, and smart proximity sensing and user interface solutions for its mobile and consumer products.

SiTime

SiTime is a provider of silicon timing systems. The company supplies oscillator products that are comprised of a MEMS resonator and clock IC that is integrated into a package, as well as standalone resonators. The company's products are designed to address a wide range of applications across a broad array of end markets. The company operates a fabless business model and leverages its global network of distributors and resellers to address the broad set of end markets that it serves.

Sonos

Sonos designs, develops, manufactures and sells multi-room audio products. The Sonos home sound system provides customers with a listening activity created by the design of its speakers and components, a proprietary software platform and the ability to stream content from a variety of sources over the customer's wireless network or over Bluetooth. The company's products are sold via third-party retail stores, including custom installers of home audio systems. The company also sells via select e-commerce retailers and its website sonos.com. The company's products are distributed through its wholly owned subsidiaries: Sonos Europe B.V., Beijing Sonos Technology Co., Ltd., Sonos Japan GK and Sonos Australia Pty Ltd.

Stanley Black & Decker Inc.

Stanley Black & Decker is a provider of hand tools, power tools and related accessories, engineered fastening systems and products, services and equipment for oil and gas and infrastructure applications, commercial electronic security and monitoring systems, healthcare solutions, and automatic doors. The company's segments include: Tools and Storage, which is comprised of the power tools and equipment and hand tools, accessories and storage businesses; Industrial, which is comprised of the engineered fastening and infrastructure businesses; and Security, which is comprised of the convergent security solutions and the mechanical access solutions businesses.

Tandem Diabetes Care

Tandem Diabetes Care is a medical device company engaged in designing, developing and commercializing products for people with insulin-dependent diabetes. The company primarily focuses on the t:slim X2 Insulin Delivery System, or t:slim X2, the company's key pump platform that is capable of remote feature updates and designed to display continuous glucose monitoring sensor information directly on the pump home screen. In addition to selling insulin pumps, the company sells disposable products that are used together with the pumps and are replaced every few days, including cartridges for storing and delivering insulin, and infusion sets that connect the insulin pump to a user's body.

Trex Company Inc.

Trex Company is a manufacturer of composite decking and railing products, which are marketed under the brand name Trex?. In addition, the company is a national provider of custom-engineered railing and staging, systems for the commercial and multi-family market, including sports stadiums and performing arts venues. The company operates in two reportable segments: Trex Residential Products, which provides a set of product offerings in the decking, railing, fencing, steel deck framing, and outdoor lighting categories; and Trex Commercial Products, which designs and engineers custom railing solutions, which are used in collegiate sports facilities, standardized architectural and aluminum railing systems.

TRINSEO PLC

Tyson Foods Inc. Class A

Tyson Foods is a food company. The company's operations consist of breeding stock, contract farmers, feed production, processing, further-processing, marketing and transportation of chicken and related allied products, including animal and pet food ingredients. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Inc., the company is engaged as poultry breeding stock supplier. The company also processes live fed cattle and hogs and fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case-ready beef and pork and fully-cooked meats. The company produces a range of fresh, frozen and refrigerated food products. The company operates in Beef, Pork, Chicken and Prepared Foods segments.

YETI Holdings

Yeti is a designer, marketer, and distributor of products for the outdoor and recreation market which are sold under the YETI brand. The company's product portfolio is comprised of three categories: Coolers and Equipment; Drinkware; and Other. The company's Coolers and Equipment category includes hard coolers, soft coolers, outdoor equipment and other products, as well as accessories and replacement parts for these products. The company's Drinkware category includes its stainless-steel drinkware products and related accessories. In addition, the company's Other category is primarily comprised of ice substitutes, and YETI-branded gear, such as shirts, hats, and other miscellaneous products.

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Ross LaDuke

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