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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.

American Eagle Outfitters Inc.

American Eagle Outfitters is a multi-brand retailer. The company operates retail stores and online at www.ae.com and www.aerie.com. The company provides a range of apparel and accessories for men and women under the American Eagle Outfitters brand, and intimates, apparel and personal care products for women under the Aerie brand. The company operates stores in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, and China. The company also has license agreements with third-parties to operate American Eagle Outfitters and Aerie stores throughout Asia, Europe, India, Latin America and the Middle East. The company also operates two other brands, Tailgate, a vintage, sports-inspired apparel brand, and Todd Snyder New York, a menswear brand.

Applied Materials Inc.

Applied Materials provides manufacturing equipment, services and software to the semiconductor, display and related industries. The company's segments are: Semiconductor Systems, which develops, manufactures and sells a range of manufacturing equipment used to fabricate semiconductor chips; Applied Global Services, which provides integrated solutions to support equipment and fab performance and productivity; and Display and Adjacent Markets, which is comprised of products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diodes and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices.

BorgWarner Inc.

BorgWarner is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global product provider in technology solutions for combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles. The company manufactures and sells these products worldwide, primarily to original equipment manufacturers of light vehicles (passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, vans and light trucks). The company's segments are: Engine, which provides turbochargers, eBoosters, timing systems, emissions systems, thermal systems, gasoline ignition technology, cabin heaters, battery heaters and battery charging; and Drivetrain, which provides rotating electrical components, power electronics, clutching systems, control modules and all-wheel drive systems.

Carrier Global Corp.

Carrier is a global provider of heating, ventilating, air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, fire and security solutions. The company also provides a broad array of related building services, including audit, design, installation, system integration, repair, maintenance and monitoring. The company is organized into three business segments: HVAC; Refrigeration; and Fire & Security.

Dover Corporation

Dover is a manufacturer and solutions provider. The company provides services through five segments: Engineered Products, which provides a range of products, software and services; Fueling Solutions, which provides components, equipment and software and service solutions enabling transport of fuels and other hazardous fluids; Imaging and Identification, which includes supplying precision marking and coding; Pumps and Process Solutions, which includes manufacturing of pumps; and Refrigeration and Food Equipment, which provides equipment and systems that serve the commercial refrigeration, heating and cooling and food equipment markets.

EnerSys

EnerSys is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of industrial batteries. The company also manufactures, markets and distributes products such as battery chargers, power equipment, battery accessories, and outdoor cabinet enclosures. The company's product lines are: reserve power products, which are used for backup power for the continuous operation of critical applications in telecommunications systems, uninterruptible power systems applications for computer and computer-controlled systems, and other specialty power applications; and motive power products, which are used to provide power for electric industrial forklifts used in manufacturing, warehousing and other material handling applications.

EQUIFAX INC.

Equifax Inc. is a provider of information solutions and human resources business process outsourcing services for businesses, governments and consumers. The company's services are based on databases of consumer and business information. The company uses statistical techniques, machine learning and proprietary software tools to analyze all available data, creating insights, decision-making solutions and processing services for its clients. The company also provides information, technology and services to support debt collections and recovery management. Additionally, the company provides payroll-related and human resource management business process outsourcing services in the United States of America.

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.

Itron Inc.

Itron is engaged in the Industrial Internet of Things, providing solutions that enable utilities and municipalities to operate their infrastructure. The company's solutions include the deployment of smart networks, software, services, devices, sensors, and data analytics. The company's solutions and data analytics address the challenges facing the energy, water, and municipality sectors, including non-technical loss, leak detection, and environmental and regulatory compliance. The company also provides managed services, software-as-a-service, technical support services, licensing hardware technology, and consulting services. The company operates under three segments: Device Solutions, Networked Solutions, and Outcomes.

MANPOWERGROUP

ManpowerGroup provides a range of workforce solutions and services, which include recruitment and assessment, training and development, career management, outsourcing, and workforce consulting. The company's family of brands and offerings includes Manpower, Experis, Right Management, and ManpowerGroup Solutions. The company's portfolio of recruitment services includes permanent, temporary and contract recruitment of professionals, as well as administrative and industrial positions. All of these services are provided under its Manpower and Experis brands. The company provides services under its Experis brand, particularly in the areas of Information Technology, Engineering, and Finance.

Mapfre Middlesea PLC

Navient Corp

Navient is a provider of education loan management and business processing solutions. The company's segments include: Federal Education Loans, in which the company holds and acquires Federal Family Education Loan Program Loans and performs servicing and asset recovery services on its own loan portfolio, federal education loans owned by the United States Department of Education and other institutions; Consumer Lending, in which the company holds, originates and acquires consumer loans and performs servicing activities on its own education loan portfolio; and Business Processing, which performs revenue cycle management and business processing services for non-education related government and healthcare clients.

Neo Performance Material

Neo Performance Materials Inc is Canada-based company engaged in rare earth metal processing sector. The Company manufactures and distributes a broad range of light and heavy rare earth engineered products. The Company's activity is divided in four segments: Magnequench Segment, production of magnetic powders used in bonded and hot deformed fully dense magnets; Chemicals and Oxides Segment, distributes a broad range of light and heavy rare earth functional materials; Rare Metals Segment, sources, produces, reclaims, refines and markets high value metals and their compounds, such as tantalum, niobium, hafnium, rhenium, gallium and indium; Corporate Segment, includes finance, administration, information technology, accounting and legal.

OWENS CORNING INC

Owens Corning is engaged in manufacturing and delivering a range of insulation, roofing, and fiberglass composite materials. The company's Composites segment includes vertically integrated downstream activities. The company manufactures, fabricates and sells glass reinforcements in the form of fiber. The company's Insulation segment includes a portfolio of high, mid and low-temperature products with a geographic mix of United States, Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, a market mix of residential, commercial, industrial and other markets, and a channel mix of retail, contractor and distribution. The company's products in the Roofing segment are laminate and strip asphalt roofing shingles.

Patrick Industries Inc.

Patrick Industries manufactures component products and distributes building products and materials serving original equipment manufacturers primarily in the recreational vehicle, manufactured housing and marine markets. The company's manufacturing segment includes the following products, among others: laminated products that are utilized to produce furniture, shelving, walls, countertops, and cabinet products, cabinet doors, fiberglass bath fixtures and tile systems. The company's distribution segment distributes, among others, pre-finished wall and ceiling panels, drywall and drywall finishing products, electronics and audio systems components, appliances, wiring, electrical and plumbing products.

Rockwell Automation Inc.

Rockwell Automation is a provider of industrial automation and digital transformation. The company's segments include: Architecture and Software, which contains automation and information platforms, including hardware and software; and Control Products and Solutions, which combines motor control and industrial control products, other solutions and a portfolio of lifecycle services. The company's automation platform products include programmable automation controllers, design, networking products, sensing devices, machine safety devices, motion control products, and independent cart technology products. The company's information platform includes manufacturing execution system software and analytics software.

Skechers U.S.A. Inc. Class A

Skechers USA designs and markets Skechers-branded lifestyle footwear for men, women and children, and performance footwear for men and women under the Skechers Performance brand name. The company also designs and markets men's and women's Skechers branded lifestyle apparel, and license the Skechers brand to others for accessories, leather goods, eyewear and scrub manufacturers, among others. The company's product offering is sold through department and specialty stores, athletic and independent retailers, boutiques and internet retailers. In addition to wholesale distribution, the company's footwear is available at its direct-to-consumer websites and its own retail stores.

State Street Corporation

State Street is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial products and services to institutional investors. The company's clients include mutual funds, collective investment funds and other investment pools, corporate and public retirement plans, insurance companies, foundations, endowments and investment managers. The company's Investment Servicing line of business performs custody and related functions, such as providing institutional investors with clearing, settlement and payment services. The company's Investment Management line of business, through State Street Global Advisors, provides a range of investment management strategies and products for its clients.

SurModics Inc.

Surmodics is a provider of medical device and in vitro diagnostic technologies to the healthcare industry. The company's segments are comprised of: Medical Device, which provides surface coatings and device drug-delivery technologies that impart lubricity, prohealing or biocompatibility characteristics, as well as drug delivery capabilities; and In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD), in which the company manufactures and sells components for IVD immunoassay and molecular tests and the company sells these components to the diagnostic, biomedical research, and life science markets. The company also provides colorimetric and chemiluminescent substrates to the IVD market under its BioFX? trademark.

Viatris Inc.

ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS INC.

Zimmer Biomet Holdings is engaged in musculoskeletal healthcare. The company's products are: Knees, which includes knee replacement surgeries; Hips, which includes hip replacement surgeries; S.E.T., which includes surgical, sports medicine, biologics, foot and ankle, extremities and trauma products; Spine and Craniomaxillofacial and Thoracic, which designs, manufactures and distributes medical devices and surgical instruments, as well as provides face and skull reconstruction products; Dental, which manufactures and/or distributes dental reconstructive implants, dental prosthetic products and dental regenerative products; and Other, which includes bone cement and office based technology products.

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