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ArcelorMittal

Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Arena Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering medicines with pharmacology and pharmacokinetics to patients globally. The company's clinical programs include: etrasimod (APD334), which is being evaluated in ulcerative colitis, a program for Crohn's disease, as well as a program for atopic dermatitis; olorinab (APD371), which is is being evaluated for a range of visceral pain conditions associated with gastrointestinal diseases and for treatment of abdominal pain associated with irritable bowel syndrome; and APD418, which is being evaluated in a trial for acute heart failure.

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BlackLine Inc.

BlackLine is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, BlackLine Systems, Inc., the company provides a cloud-based software platform designed to automate and streamline accounting and finance operations. The company's platform consists of the following cloud-based products, including Transaction Matching, Account Reconciliations, Consolidation Integrity Manager, Daily Reconciliations, Journal Entry, Variance Analysis, Task Management, and Compliance. The company's existing solutions include Balance Sheet Integrity, Close Process Management, Accounting Process Automation, Finance Transformation, Intercompany Hub and Smart Close.

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Bunge Limited

CalAmp Corp.

CalAmp is a telematics solutions provider. The company's software applications, cloud services, and intelligent devices collect and assess data including industrial machines, commercial and passenger vehicles, their drivers and contents. The company operates under two reportable segments: Telematics Systems, which provide a series of telematics and stolen vehicle recovery products for the connected vehicle and emerging Internet of Machines marketplace; and Software and Subscription Services, which provide cloud-based application enablement and telematics service platforms that facilitate integration of its own applications, as well as those of third parties, through open Application Programming Interfaces.

CONOCOPHILLIPS

ConocoPhillips is an exploration and production company engaged in exploring for, producing, transporting and marketing crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, liquefied natural gas and natural gas liquids. The company's segments include: Alaska, which operates in Alaska; Lower 48, which operates in the United States and the Gulf of Mexico; Canada, which operates in Alberta and British Columbia; Europe and North Africa, which consists of operations and exploration activities in Norway, the United Kingdom and Libya; Asia Pacific and Middle East, which operates in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Qatar, and Timor-Leste; and Other International, which operates in Colombia, Chile and Argentina.

COSTAR GROUP INC

CoStar Group provides information, analytics and online marketplace services to the commercial real estate and related business community through its database of commercial real estate information covering the U.S., the U.K., and parts of Canada, Spain, Germany and France. The company provides online marketplaces for commercial real estate, apartment rentals, lands for sale and businesses for sale. The company operates within two operating segments, North America and International, and its services are distributed to its clients under subscription-based license agreements that renew automatically, a majority of which have a term of one year.

Ferrari NV

Global Payments Inc.

Global Payments is a pure play payment technology company providing payments and software solutions to merchants and financial institutions. The company has three segments: Merchant Solutions, which includes authorization services, chargeback resolution, and payment security services; Issuer Solutions, which provides solutions that enable financial institutions and other financial service providers to manage their card portfolios and reduces technical difficulty and overhead on a single platform; and Business and Consumer Solutions, which provides general purpose reloadable prepaid debit and payroll cards, demand deposit accounts and other financial service solutions through its Netspend? brand.

Hexcel Corporation

Hexcel is a composites company with two reportable segments. The Composite Materials segment manufactures and markets carbon fibers, fabrics and specialty reinforcements, prepregs and other fiber-reinforced matrix materials, structural adhesives, honeycomb, molding compounds, tooling materials, polyurethane systems and laminates that are incorporated into several applications, including military and commercial aircraft, wind turbine blades, recreational products, transportation and other industrial applications. The Engineered Products segment manufactures and markets composite structures and precision machined honeycomb parts primarily for use in the aerospace industry.

Hillenbrand Inc.

Hillenbrand is a global industrial company with several brands that serve a variety of industries. The company's segments are: Process Equipment Group, which designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and services process and material handling equipment and systems for a variety of industries, including plastics, food and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, fertilizers, minerals and mining, energy, wastewater treatment, forest products, and other general industrials; and Batesville?, which is engaged in the death care industry in North America, where it designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells funeral service products and solutions to funeral directors operating funeral homes.

ICU Medical Inc.

ICU Medical is an infusion therapy company with a range of product portfolio that includes intravenous (IV) solutions, IV smart pumps, dedicated and nondedicated IV sets and needle free connectors, along with pain management and safety software technology. In addition, the company manufactures automated pharmacy IV compounding systems. The company's product lines include: Infusion Consumables; Infusion Systems, which include infusion pump hardware, IV mediation safety software, and rofessional pservices; IV Solutions, which include IV therapy and diluents and irrigation; and Critical Care, which help clinicians get real-time access to patients' hemodynamic and cardiac status.

IRhythm Technologies Inc.

iRhythm Technologies is a digital healthcare company redefining the way cardiac arrhythmias are clinically diagnosed by combining its wearable biosensing technology with cloud-based data analytics and capabilities. The company has developed a long-term continuous ambulatory cardiac monitoring platform known as the Zio service that provides continuous ambulatory cardiac monitoring through Zio XT monitor and Zio AT monitor. While wearing either the Zio XT or Zio AT monitor, patients can mark when symptoms occur by pressing a trigger button on the device and separately recording contextual data like activities and circumstances in a written symptom diary or digitally via the myZio application.

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Ligand Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and acquiring technologies that help pharmaceutical companies discover and develop medicines. The company employs research technologies such as antibody discovery technologies, structure-based drug design, formulation science and liver targeted pro-drug technologies to assist companies in their work toward securing prescription drug and biologic approvals. The company's collaboration partners and licensees have programs in clinical development targeting cancer, seizure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, muscle wasting, liver disease, and kidney disease, among others.

Moody's Corporation

Moody's is a provider of credit ratings and assessment services; credit, capital markets and economic research, data and analytical tools; software solutions that support financial risk management activities; quantitatively derived credit scores; learning solutions and certification services; and company information and business intelligence products. The company's segments are: Moody's Investors Service, which publishes credit ratings on a range of debt obligations and the entities that issue such obligations in markets worldwide; and Moody's Analytics, which provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to assist businesses in making decisions.

New Relic Inc.

New Relic is a provider of an integrated, multi-tenant, cloud-based instrumentation and analytics platform that enables users to collect, store and analyze amounts of data in real time. The company's products include: New Relic Application Performance Management, which provides visibility into the performance and usage of server-based applications; New Relic Mobile, which provides code-level visibility into the performance and health of mobile applications running on the iOS and Android mobile operating systems; New Relic Browser; New Relic Synthetics; New Relic Infrastructure; and New Relic Insights.

ONEOK Inc.

Oneok is a midstream service provider. The company's segments include: Natural Gas Gathering and Processing, which provides midstream services to producers in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas and Oklahoma; natural gas liquids (NGLs), which owns and operates facilities that gather, fractionate, treat and distribute NGLs and store NGL products, primarily in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and the Rocky Mountain region; and Natural Gas Pipelines, which provides transportation and storage services to end users through its wholly owned assets and its ownership interests in Northern Border Pipeline Company and Roadrunner Gas Transmission, LLC.

Qorvo Inc.

Qorvo is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company designs, develops, manufactures and markets its products to U.S. and international original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers in two operating segments: Mobile Products, which is a supplier of cellular radio frequency (RF) and Wi-Fi solutions for mobile devices, including smartphones, wearables, laptops, tablets and cellular-based applications for the Internet of Things (IoT); and Infrastructure and Defense Products, which is a supplier of RF and system-on-a-chip solutions for cellular base stations and other wireless communications infrastructure, defense, smart home, automotive and other IoT applications.

RealPage Inc.

RealPage is a provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry. The company's platform consists of four categories of solutions: Property Management, which manages primary property management business processes, including leasing, accounting, budgeting, purchasing, facilities management, and support and advisory services; Leasing and Marketing, which manages primary leasing and marketing processes; Resident Services, which provides a platform to improve the transactional of prospects and renters and improve a property's reputation; and Asset Optimization, which provides analytics-based decision support for investment performance throughout the phases of real estate investment.

ResMed Inc.

ResMed is a holding company. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the development, manufacturing, distribution and marketing of medical devices and cloud-based software solutions that diagnose, treat and manage respiratory disorders including sleep disordered breathing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, neuromuscular disease and other chronic diseases. The company has two operating segments: Sleep and Respiratory Care and Software-as-a-Solutions. The company's portfolio of products includes devices, diagnostic products, mask systems, headgear and other accessories, dental devices, portable oxygen concentrators and cloud-based software informatics solutions.

SAGE Therapeutics Inc.

Sage Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing medicines to treat life-altering central nervous system disorders. The company's principal product candidate is ZULRESSO? (brexanolone) injection, a proprietary intravenous formulation of brexanolone for the treatment of postpartum depression (PPD). The company's other product candidate is SAGE-217, an oral compound that is being developed for PPD and major depressive disorder. The company also has a portfolio of other compounds that target GABAA receptors, which include SAGE-324 and SAGE-689. The company's second area of focus is the development of compounds that target the NMDA receptor, which include SAGE-718.

ServiceNow Inc.

ServiceNow provides enterprise cloud computing services that define, structure, manage and automate digital workflows for global enterprises. The company markets its services to enterprises in a variety of industries, including consumer products, education, financial services, government, health care, information technology (IT) services and technology. The company sells its subscription services through direct sales and, to a lesser extent, through indirect channel sales. The company also provides a portfolio of personnel and other services, both directly and through its network of partners. The company's products include IT service management, IT operations management, IT business management, and security operations.

Skyworks Solutions Inc.

Skyworks Solutions is a provider of analog semiconductors that connect people, places, and things, spanning a number of applications within the aerospace, automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet and wearable markets. The company's product portfolio consists of various solutions, including: amplifiers, antenna tuners, attenuators, circulators/isolators, wireless analog system on chip, direct current (DC)/DC converters, demodulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, diversity receive modules, filters, front-end modules, hybrid, light emitting diode drivers, low noise amplifiers, mixers, and modulators.

SunCoke Energy Partners LP

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.

Take-Two Interactive Software is a developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers. The company develops and publishes products principally through its two wholly-owned labels Rockstar Games and 2K, as well as its Private Division label and Social Point, a developer of mobile games. The company's products are designed for console gaming systems such as the Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. PlayStation?4, Microsoft Corporation Xbox One?, and Xbox 360?, the Nintendo Switch, and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets. The company delivers its products through physical retail, digital download, online platforms and cloud streaming services.

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Thai Rung Union Car

Thai Rung Union Car Public Company Limited is a Thailand-based company engaged in automobile industry. The Company's principal activities consist of car assembly and modification, and the manufacture and distribution of parts and molds. The Company operates three business segments: car assembly and other related car service segment, manufacture of equipment for production of car accessories segment comprising the manufacture of molds and jigs, as well as manufacture and sales of car accessories and spare parts, and sales of cars, car service centre business segment. Its subsidiaries comprise Thai V.P. Auto Service Co., Ltd. engaged in sales of accessories, spare parts and car service centers; Thai Rung Tools and Dies Co., Ltd. engaged in mold making services, and Thai Auto Pressparts Co., Ltd. engaged in manufacture of vehicle's body parts.

TPI Composites Inc.

TPI Composites is a holding company that conducts all of its business operations through its direct and indirect subsidiaries. The company is engaged as an independent manufacturer of composite wind blades for the wind energy market. The company is a supplier to its original equipment manufacturers customers in the manufacture of wind blades and related molding and assembly systems. The company uses its composite technology to supply composite products to the transportation market. The company's tooling solutions include wind blade patterns, molding and assembly systems, including modular tooling techniques. The company's geographic segments are: the United States, Asia, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India.

TransUnion

TransUnion is an information and insights company. The company provides consumer reports, actionable insights and analytics such as credit and other scores, and decisioning capabilities to businesses. The company has the following reportable segments: United States Markets, which provides consumer reports, actionable insights and analytics such as credit and other scores, and decisioning capabilities to businesses; International, which provides services similar to its United States Markets segment to businesses in select regions outside the United States; and Consumer Interactive, which provides solutions that help consumers manage their personal finances and take precautions against identity theft.

Ultimate Software Group Inc.

Ultimate Software Group is a provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions, often referred to as human capital management (HCM). The company's UltiPro product suite (UltiPro) is a solution that has human resources, payroll, and benefits management and includes global people management. The solution is delivered via software-as-a-service to organizations based in the U.S. and Canada, including those with global workforces. UltiPro is designed to manage the employee life cycle from recruitment to retirement. The company's cloud offering of UltiPro provides Web-based access to HCM functionality for organizations that want to simplify delivery and support of their business applications.

Virtusa Corporation

Virtusa is a provider of digital engineering and information technology (IT) outsourcing services. The company's services include: Business and IT consulting services, which provide business and IT consulting services to assist its clients in managing their business and IT environments, and aligning their IT investments; Technology implementation services, which involve building, testing, deploying, maintaining and supporting IT applications, and consolidating and rationalizing its clients' existing IT applications and environments into platforms; and Application outsourcing services, which provide support for its clients' needs to manage and maintain their software applications and platforms.

WEX INC

Wex is a provider of corporate card payment solutions. The company operates in three business segments: Fleet Solutions, which provides payment, transaction processing and information management services specifically designed for the needs of commercial and government fleets; Travel and Corporate Solutions, which focuses on the payment environment of business-to-business payments, providing customers with payment processing solutions for their corporate payment and transaction monitoring needs; and Health and Employee Benefit Solutions, which provides a software-as-a-service platform for consumer directed healthcare payments, as well as payroll related benefits to customers in Brazil.

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