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AstraZeneca PLC ADS

Brown & Brown Inc.

Brown & Brown is an insurance agency, wholesale brokerage, insurance programs and service organization. The company's segments are: Retail, which provides a range of insurance products and services, and non-insurance risk-mitigating products; National Programs, which provides professional liability and related package products, a range of insurance products, and flood coverage, and targeted products and services; Wholesale Brokerage, which markets and sells excess and surplus commercial and personal lines insurance; and Services, which provides insurance-related services, including third-party claims administration and medical utilization management services, as well as Medicare Set-aside services.

Evolent Health Inc Class A

Evolent Health is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a managed care services firm that supports health systems and physician organizations in their migration toward care and population health management. The company's Services segment provides its customers, who it refers to as partners, with a population health management platform, integrated data and analytics capabilities, claims processing services, including pharmacy benefit management, specialty care management services and health plan administration services. The company's subsidiary, True Health New Mexico, Inc. is a physician-led health plan in New Mexico available via the commercial market for employer-sponsored health coverage.

Exterran Corp.

Exterran is a global systems and process company. The company operates in the following primary business lines: contract operations, which provides compression and processing and treating services through the operation of its natural gas compression equipment and crude oil and natural gas production and process equipment; aftermarket services, which sells parts and components and provides operations, maintenance, repair, overhaul, upgrade, startup and commissioning and reconfiguration services; and product sales, which designs, engineers, manufactures, installs and sells natural gas compression packages as well as equipment used in the treating and processing of crude oil, natural gas and water.

Golden Ocean Group Ltd

Grupo Televisa SA (ADR)

Hudson Ltd

Illumina Inc.

Illumina is engaged in sequencing- and array-based solutions for genetic and genomic analysis. The company provides whole-genome sequencing, genotyping, noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), and product support services. Using the company's services, customers can perform whole-genome sequencing projects and microarray projects (including large-scale genotyping studies and whole-genome association studies). The company provides NIPT services through its partner laboratories that direct samples to the company on a test send-out basis in its Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments-certified, College of Pathologists-accredited laboratory. The company also provides support services to customers who have purchased its products.

Kimball International Inc. Cl B

Kimball International creates furnishings. The company's furniture solutions are used in collaborative and open work spaces, conference and meeting/huddle rooms, training rooms, private offices, learning areas, classrooms, lobby/reception areas, and dining/cafe areas with a mix of wood, metal, laminate, paint, fabric, solid surface, and plastic options. In addition, the company provides products designed for the healthcare market, such as casegoods and seating for patient exam rooms and lounge areas. In the hospitality industry, the company's products include headboards, tables, seating, vanities, casegoods, lighting, and products with technology features.

Lindsay Corporation

Lindsay is engaged in providing a variety of proprietary water management and road infrastructure products and services. The company has operations which are categorized into two key reporting segments, Irrigation and Infrastructure. The company's irrigation segment includes the manufacture and marketing of center pivot, lateral move, hose reel irrigation systems, and repair and replacement parts for its irrigation systems and controls. The company's infrastructure segment includes the manufacture and marketing of moveable barriers, specialty barriers, crash cushions and end terminals, road marking and road safety equipment, large diameter steel tubing, and railroad signals and structures.

Nexa Resources S.A.

NextEra Energy Partners LP

Primo Water

Primo Water is a provider of multi-gallon purified bottled water, self-service refill drinking water and water dispensers sold through retailers in the U.S. and Canada. The company has three operating segments and three reportable segments: Refill, which consists of the sale of filtered drinking water dispensed directly to consumers through self-service machines; Exchange, which consists of the sale of multi-gallon purified bottled water provided through point of purchase display racks and recycling centers that are located at retailers in space that is often underutilized; and Dispensers, which sells water dispensers that are designed to dispense Primo and other dispenser-compatible bottled water.

Qualcomm Inc

Qualcomm is engaged in the development and commercialization of foundational technologies for the wireless industry. The company's segments include: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, which is a developer and supplier of integrated circuits and system software based on code division multiple access, orthogonal frequency division multiple access and other technologies; Qualcomm Technology Licensing, which grants licenses or otherwise provides rights to use portions of its intellectual property portfolio, which, among other rights, include certain patent rights essential to and/or useful in the manufacture and sale of certain wireless products; and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives, which makes investments.

Quotient Technology Incorporated

Quotient Technology is a digital marketing company, providing technology and services that enable integrated digital promotions and media programs for consumer packaged goods brands and retailers. These programs are delivered across the company's network, including its main consumer brand Coupons.com and its retail partners' properties. This network provides the company with proprietary and licensed data, including online behavior, purchase intent, and retailers' in-store point-of-sale shopper data. For its retail partners, the company provides a digital platform, Quotient Retailer iQ, to directly engage with shoppers across their websites, mobile, ecommerce, and social channels.

Strategic Education Inc.

Strategic Education is an education services company. The company provides campus-based and online post-secondary education offerings through two subsidiaries, Strayer University and Capella University. Strayer University provides undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health services administration, nursing, public administration, and criminal justice at physical campuses, primarily located in the eastern U.S., and online. Capella University is an online post-secondary education company that provides a variety of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs primarily delivered to working adults.

Tivity Health Inc.

Tivity Health engages in fitness programs. Through its three programs, SilverSneakers? senior fitness, Prime? fitness and WholeHealth Living?, the company is focused on health and vitality in aging populations. The SilverSneakers senior fitness program is provided to members of Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, and Group Retiree plans. The company provides Prime fitness, a fitness facility access program, via commercial health plans and employers. The company's network of fitness centers delivers both SilverSneakers and Prime fitness. Via its WholeHealth Living program, which the company sells to health plans, the company provides services related to complementary, alternative, and physical medicine.

Tricida

Tricida is a pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of its drug candidate, TRC101 (veverimer), a non-absorbed, orally-administered polymer designed to treat metabolic acidosis by binding and removing acid from the gastrointestinal tract.

West Town Bancorp, Inc.

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation

Wabtec primarily serves the global freight rail and passenger transit industries. The company provides its products and services through two segments: Freight, which primarily manufactures and provides aftermarket parts and services for new locomotives; provides components for new and existing locomotives and freight cars; builds new commuter locomotives; and supplies rail control and infrastructure products, among others: and Transit, which primarily manufactures and services components for new and existing passenger transit vehicles, mainly regional trains, high speed trains, subway cars, light-rail vehicles and buses; and supplies rail control and infrastructure products, among others.

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Dave Nicoski

Ross LaDuke

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