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Beam Therapeutics

Beam Therapeutics operates as a biotechnology company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a research stage biotechnology company committed to creating a new class of precision genetic medicines, based on the company's proprietary base editing technology, with a vision of providing life-long cures to patients suffering from serious diseases.

Brookfield Infrastructure

Calix Networks

Calix is a provider of cloud and software platforms, systems and software for fiber- and copper-based network architectures. The company is also a provider of software defined access and cloud products focused on access networks and the subscriber. The company's portfolio allows for a range of subscriber services to be provisioned and delivered over a single unified network. The company's access systems can deliver voice and data services, broadband services, mobile broadband, as well as high-definition video and online gaming. The company's premises systems enable communications service providers to manage the smart home and business and provide new services to their device enabled subscribers.

CASIO COMPUTER CO

Churchill Downs Incorporated

Churchill Downs is a racing, online wagering and gaming entertainment company. The company manages its operations through three reportable segments: Churchill Downs, Online Wagering, and Gaming. Churchill Downs includes live and historical pari-mutuel racing at Churchill Downs Racetrack and Derby City Gaming. Online Wagering includes the company's TwinSpires business and its online sports betting and iGaming business. Gaming includes casino properties and associated racetrack or jai alai facilities which support the casino license as applicable.

Crocs Inc.

Crocs is engaged in the design, development, marketing, distribution, and sale of casual lifestyle footwear and accessories for men, women, and children. The company provides a variety of footwear products including sandals, flips and slides, which the company collectively refer to as sandals, shoes, and boots. The majority of shoes within the company's collection contains Croslite? material. The company's wholesale channel includes domestic and international multi-brand retailers, e-tailers, and distributors; the company's retail channel consists of company-operated stores; and the company's e-commerce channel includes company-operated e-commerce sites and third-party marketplaces.

Cytokinetics Incorporated

Cytokinetics is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing muscle activators and muscle inhibitors as treatments for debilitating diseases in which muscle performance is compromised and/or declining. The company's clinical-stage drug candidates are: omecamtiv mecarbil, a cardiac myosin activator for the treatment of heart failure, AMG 594, a cardiac troponin activator, reldesemtiv, a skeletal muscle troponin activator for the treatments of spinal muscular atrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and CK-3773274, a cardiac myosin inhibitor which is designed to reduce the hypercontractility that is associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Daqo New Energy Corp Sponsored ADR

Enphase Energy Inc.

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company. The company designs, develops, manufactures and sells home energy solutions that connect energy generation, energy storage and control and communications management on one platform. The company's semiconductor-based microinverter converts energy at the individual solar module level and, combines with its proprietary networking and software technologies to provide energy monitoring and control. The Enphase Home Energy Solution with IQ consists of four primary components: Enphase microinverters, the AC Battery?, an Envoy gateway, and Enlighten cloud-based software.

Estee Lauder Companies Inc. Class A

Estee Lauder Companies is a manufacturer and marketer of skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The company's products are sold under a number of brand names including: Estee Lauder, Clinique, Origins, MzAzC, Bobbi Brown, La Mer, Jo Malone London, Aveda and Too Faced. The company is also the global licensee for fragrances, cosmetics and/or related products sold under various designer brand names. The company's products include skin care, makeup and related items such as compacts, brushes and other makeup tools, fragrance sold in various forms, hair care, and other ancillary products and services.

Euronet Worldwide Inc.

Euronet Worldwide is an electronic payments provider. The company provides payment and transaction processing and distribution solutions to financial institutions, retailers, service providers and individual consumers. The company operates three segments: Electronic Financial Transaction Processing, which processes transactions for a network of automated teller machines and point-of-sale terminals; epay, which provides distribution and processing of prepaid mobile airtime and other electronic content and payment processing services for various prepaid products, cards and services; and Money Transfer, which provides consumer-to-consumer and global account-to-account money transfer services.

ExlService Holdings Inc.

ExlService Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an operations management and analytics company. The company's operations management services involve the transfer to the company's business operations of a client such as claims processing, clinical operations, or financial transaction processing, after which the company administers and manages those operations for its client on an ongoing basis, or in case of consulting, consulting services related to transformation services, including digital transformation services. The company's Analytics services focus on driving business outcomes for its customers by generating data-driven insights across various parts of its customers' business.

Hain Celestial Group Inc.

Hain Celestial Group manufactures, markets, distributes and sells organic and natural products. The company sells its products in the following categories: grocery, which includes infant formula, infant, toddler and kids foods, as well as other food products; snack products, which includes a variety of potato, root vegetable and other vegetable chips, straws, tortilla chips, whole grain chips, pita chips and puffs; personal care, which includes skin, hair and oral care, deodorants, baby care items, body washes, sunscreens and lotions; and tea, which provides varieties of herbal, green, black, wellness, rooibos and chai tea.

Harmonic

Harmonic provides video delivery software, products, system solutions and services that enable its customers to create, prepare, store, playout and deliver a range of broadcast and over-the-top video services to consumer devices. The company has two segments, Video and Cable Access. The Video business sells video processing and production and playout solutions and services worldwide to cable operators and satellite and telecommunications (telco) pay-TV service providers, which it refers to collectively as service providers. The Cable Access business sells cable access solutions and related services, including its CableOS software-based cable access solution, primarily to cable operators globally.

Hologic Inc.

Hologic is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of diagnostics products, medical imaging systems, surgical products and light-based aesthetic and medical treatment systems. The company's segments are: Diagnostics, which provides diagnostic products which are used to aid in the diagnosis of human diseases; Breast Health, which provides solutions for breast cancer care for radiology, pathology and surgery; Medical Aesthetics, which provides aesthetic treatment systems, including SculpSure, PicoSure and MonaLisa Touch; GYN Surgical, which includes NovaSure Endometrial Ablation System to treat abnormal uterine bleeding; and Skeletal Health, which includes the Horizon DXA, a dual energy x-ray system.

Hostess Brands Inc. Class A

Hostess Brands is a packaged food company. The company produces Hostess?, Dolly Madison?, Cloverhill? and Big Texas? products at bakeries located in Emporia, KS; Columbus, GA; Indianapolis, IN; and Chicago, IL. In-store bakery products are produced at bakeries located in Southbridge, MA. The company has invested in baking and packaging technology, including installing two Auto-bake systems and fully-automated packaging systems. A portion of the company's products are co-manufactured and packaged under its brands and sold through its distribution facilities. The company's Direct-to-Warehouse distribution model uses centralized distribution centers and common carriers to fill orders, with products.

Impinj Inc.

Impinj enables wireless connectivity for everyday items, delivering each items' identity, location and authenticity to business and consumer applications. The company's platform comprises endpoint integrated circuits, or ICs, connectivity and software that together deliver item data to business and consumer applications. The company's platform spans endpoints, connectivity and software and provides wireless item connectivity and information delivery. The company sells endpoint ICs, reader ICs, reader modules, readers, gateways and software as well as provides development, service and license agreements.

Insperity Inc.

Insperity provides a range of human resources (HR) and business solutions. The company's HR services offerings are provided through its Workforce Optimization? and Workforce Synchronization? solutions, which encompass a range of human resources functions, including payroll and employment administration, employee benefits, workers' compensation, government compliance, performance management, and training and development services, along with its cloud-based human capital management platform, its Insperity Premier?. In addition to its Professional Employer Organization HR Outsourcing solutions, the company provides Workforce Acceleration?, a payroll and human capital management solution.

Insulet Corporation

Insulet is engaged in the development, manufacturing and sale of its Omnipod? System, an insulin delivery system for people with insulin-dependent diabetes, which consists of two product lines: the Omnipod Insulin Management System and Omnipod DASH? Insulin Management System. The Omnipod System features a self-adhesive disposable tubeless Pod, which is worn on the body and provides up to three days of non-stop insulin delivery without the need to see or handle a needle, and a handheld Personal Diabetes Manager. The Omnipod System communicates wirelessly, provides for automated cannula insertion and eliminates the need for multiple daily injection therapy or the use of pump and tubing.

International Money Express Inc

International Money Express is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a money remittance services company focused primarily on the United States to Latin America and the Caribbean corridor, which includes Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. The company utilizes its proprietary technology to deliver services to its customers through a network of sending and paying agents. The company's remittance services include a suite of ancillary financial processing solutions and payment services. Its services are accessible in person through sending and paying agents and company-operated stores, as well as online through Intermexonline.com and via Internet-enabled mobile devices.

JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. Sponsored ADR

Lithium Americas Corp

Lithium Americas is a Canadian based resource company focused on the development of two lithium projects, the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project, located in Jujuy province, Argentina, and the Lithium Nevada project, located in north-western Nevada, U.S.A. In addition, Co. is a supplier of specialty drilling additives, Hectatone™ and other organoclay products for the oil and gas and other industries.

Moderna Inc.

Moderna is creating a new generation of medicines based on messenger RNA to improve the lives of patients. The company uses its platform to identify and develop new mRNA medicines. When the company identifies a combination of platform technologies or programs across mRNA technologies, delivery technologies, and manufacturing processes that can enable shared product features across multiple potential mRNA medicines, it groups those programs as a modality. The company has created six modalities including prohylactic vaccines; cancer vaccines; intratumoral immuno-oncology; localized regenerative therapeuctics; systemic secreted therapeutics; and systemic intracellular therapeutics.

ModivCare Inc

Newmont Corporation

Newmont is primarily a gold producer with operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia and Ghana. The company is also engaged in the production of copper, silver, lead and zinc. The company's operations are organized in five geographic regions; North America, South America, Australia, Africa and Nevada.

Pfizer Inc.

Pfizer is a research-based biopharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in discovering, developing, manufacturing and distributing of healthcare products, including medicines and vaccines. The company manages its commercial operations through three businesses: Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group, which includes Oncology, Inflammation and Immunology, Rare Disease, Hospital, Vaccines and Internal Medicine business units, as well as a hospital business unit; Upjohn, which includes the company's solid oral dose brands such as Lyrica, Lipitor, Norvasc, Celebrex, Viagra, and certain generic medicines; and Consumer Healthcare, which is an over-the-counter medicines business.

ROYAL GOLD INC

Royal Gold acquires and manages precious metal streams, royalties and similar interests. The company acquires existing stream and royalty interests or finances projects that are in production or in the development stage in exchange for stream or royalty interests. A metal stream is a purchase agreement that provides, in exchange for an upfront deposit payment, the right to purchase all or a portion of one or more metals produced from a mine, at a price determined for the life of the transaction by the purchase agreement. Royalties are non-operating interests in mining projects that provide the right to a portion of revenue or metals produced from the project after deducting specified costs, if any.

Ryerson Holding Corporation

Ryerson Holding is a metals service center, a processor and distributor of industrial metals. The company provides flat and long metals products. The company also provides processing and fabrication services such as bending, beveling, blanking, blasting, burning, cutting-to-length, drilling, embossing, flattening, forming, grinding, laser cutting, machining, notching, painting, perforating, polishing, punching, rolling, sawing, scribing, shearing, slitting, stamping, tapping, threading, welding, or other techniques to process materials to a specified thickness, length, width, shape, and surface quality pursuant to specific customer orders. The company operates across North America and in China.

Service Corporation International

Service Corporation International provides deathcare products and services. The company's funeral service and cemetery operations consist of funeral service locations, cemeteries, funeral service/cemetery combination locations, crematoria, and other related businesses. Funeral service locations provide services related to funerals and cremations, including the use of funeral home facilities and motor vehicles, arranging and directing services, removal, preparation, embalming, cremations, memorialization, and catering. The company's cemeteries provide cemetery property interment rights, such as developed lots, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces, niches, and other cremation memorialization and interment options.

Shutterstock Inc.

Shutterstock is a technology company that provides a creative platform including content, tools and services. The content licensed by the company's customers includes: images, consisting of photographs, vectors and illustrations, which are used in visual communications, such as websites, digital and print marketing materials, corporate communications, books, publications and other similar uses; Footage, consisting of video clips; and music, consisting of music tracks and sound effects, which is often used to complement images and footage. The company's products include Shutterstock, Bigstock, Offset, Shutterstock Select, Shutterstock Custom, Shutterstock Editorial and Shutterstock Music and PremiumBeat.

SolarEdge Technologies Inc.

SolarEdge Technologies designs, develops, and sells an intelligent inverter solution designed for power generation at the individual photovoltaic module level. The company's products consist mainly of power optimizers designed to maximize energy throughput from each and every module via constant tracking of Maximum Power Point individually per module; inverters, which invert direct current from the PV module to alternating current; a related cloud-based monitoring platform; and a storage solution that is used to increase energy independence and maximize self-consumption for homeowners by utilizing a battery that is sold separately by third party manufacturers, to store and supply power as needed.

Spire Inc.

Spire is the holding company for Spire Missouri Inc. (Spire Missouri), Spire Alabama Inc. (Spire Alabama), other gas utilities, and gas-related businesses. The company's segments are: Gas Utility, which includes Spire Missouri, a natural gas distribution utility system in Missouri, and Spire Alabama, a public utility engaged in the purchase, retail distribution and sale of natural gas principally in central and northern Alabama; and Gas Marketing, which includes the company's subsidiary, Spire Marketing Inc. that is engaged in the marketing of natural gas and providing energy services to both on-system utility transportation customers and customers outside of the service areas.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. ADS

TechTarget Inc.

TechTarget is a provider of online content for buyers of enterprise information technology (IT) products and services, and a provider of purchase-intent marketing and sales services for enterprise technology vendors. The company's service offerings enable technology vendors to identify, reach and influence corporate IT decision makers actively researching specific IT purchases. The company categorizes its content offerings across a portfolio of market categories including: security; networking; storage; data center and virtualization technologies; Chief Information Officer /IT strategy; business applications and analytics; application architecture and development; and channel.

THE BEAUTY HEALTH CO

TREACE MED CONCEPTS INC

Yum China Holdings Inc.

Yum China Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a restaurant company in the People's Republic of China (China). The company's restaurant base consists of restaurant concepts, including KFC, Pizza Hut brands, as well as brands such as East Dawning, Little Sheep, Taco Bell and COFFii & JOY. The company has the right to operate and sublicense the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell brands in China (excluding Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau), and own the intellectual property of the East Dawning, Little Sheep and COFFii & JOY concepts outright. Most restaurants in the KFC, Pizza Hut, East Dawning, Taco Bell and COFFii & JOY concepts provide delivery service.

Zebra Technologies Corporation Class A

Zebra Technologies designs, manufactures, and sells a range of automatic identification and data capture products, including: mobile computers, barcode scanners and imagers, radio frequency identification devices (RFID) readers, printers for barcode labeling and personal identification, real-time location systems, related accessories and supplies, such as labels and other consumables, and software utilities and applications. The company has two segments: Asset Intelligence and Tracking, which includes barcode and card printing, supplies, services, location solutions, and retail solutions; and Enterprise Visibility and Mobility, which includes mobile computing, data capture, RFID, and services.

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