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ADP competes in the human resources administration services industry. It provides services that satisfy companies' human resources needs, such as payroll processing and benefits administration. ADP was founded in 1949 and has its headquarters in Roseland, New Jersey. It serves more than 650,000 clients and has 57,000 employees worldwide.

Ameren owns rate-regulated generation, transmission, and distribution networks that deliver electricity and natural gas in Missouri and Illinois. It serves nearly 2.5 million electricity customers and roughly 1.0 million natural gas customers.

American International Group is one of the largest insurance and financial services firms in the world and has a global footprint. It operates through a wide range of subsidiaries that provide property, casualty, and life insurance. Its revenue is split roughly evenly between commercial and consumer lines.

Assurant Inc offers a range of property-casualty, health, employee benefit, and warranty insurance to a client base made up of individuals and institutions. The company has four reportable segments namely Global Housing, Global Lifestyle, Global Preneed and Total Corporate and Other. Global Housing segment provides lender-placed homeowners, manufactured housing, flood insurance, and other related products, Global Lifestyle provides mobile device protection and related services, Global Preneed is engaged in providing pre-funded funeral insurance and annuity products whereas Total Corporate and others includes activities related to holding company primarily related to the company's frozen benefit plans. It generates a majority of its revenue from Global Lifestyle Segment.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co provides insurance brokerage and consulting services to middle-market entities around the world. The majority of the company's revenue comes from its brokerage segment, where it negotiates and places its customers with insurance companies that provide, among other types, property/casualty and health insurance. The company's primary source of revenue in the brokerage segment is commissions from the insurance companies. The company also generates significant revenue in its corporate segment, which includes clean energy investment and other investment income. The company generates most of its revenue in the United States, with the remaining revenue coming primarily from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Albemarle is the world's largest lithium producer. Our outlook for robust lithium demand is predicated upon increased demand for electric vehicle batteries. Albemarle produces lithium from its salt brine deposits in Chile and the U.S. and its hard rock joint venture mines in Australia. Albemarle is also a global leader in the production of bromine, used in flame retardants, and oil refining catalysts.

Allegion is a global security products company with a portfolio of leading brands, such as Schlage, Von Duprin, and LCN. The Ireland-domiciled company was created via a spin-off transaction from Ingersoll-Rand in December 2013. In fiscal 2018, Allegion generated 73% of sales in the Americas, 22% of sales in Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa, and 5% of sales in Asia-Pacific. The company mainly competes with Swedish-based Assa Abloy AB, Switzerland-based Dormakaba, and U.S.-based Spectrum Brands.

Applied Materials is one of the world's largest suppliers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, providing materials engineering solutions to help make nearly every chip in the world. The firm's systems are used in every process step with the exception of lithography. Key tools include those for chemical and physical vapor deposition, etching, chemical mechanical polishing, wafer- and reticle-inspection, critical dimension measurement, and defect-inspection scanning electron microscopes.

Ametek operates in two distinct business segments: the electronic instruments group and the electromechanical group. The firm builds monitoring, testing, calibration, and display devices as a part of EIG and air-moving electric motors as a part of EMG.

Anthem is one of the largest private health insurance organizations nationwide, providing medical benefits to over 40 million members. The company offers employer-sponsored, individual, and government-backed coverage plans. Anthem differs from its peers in its unique position as the largest single provider of Blue Cross Blue Shield branded coverage, operating as the licensee for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in 14 states.

Anadarko Petroleum, based in The Woodlands, Texas, is one of the largest independent exploration and production companies in North America. Its asset base includes conventional and unconventional properties in the U.S. and deepwater oil and gas projects in the Gulf of Mexico and Africa. At the end of 2018, proven reserves totaled 1.47 billion boe, with net production of 666 mboe/d.

Amphenol is one of the world's largest designers and manufacturers of connectors, cables, and sensor-based products. Its products are used primarily to transmit electrical and optical signals for a wide range of electronic applications. Primary end markets include voice, video, and data communication systems, commercial and military aerospace electronics, industrial factory automation equipment, mobile devices, and transportation applications.

Avery Dennison manufactures pressure-sensitive materials, merchandise tags, and labels. The company also runs a specialty converting business that produces radio-frequency identification inlays and labels. Avery Dennison draws a significant amount of revenue from outside the United States, with international operations accounting for the majority of total sales.

Bank of America is one of the largest financial institutions in the United States, with more than $2.3 trillion in assets. It is organized into four major segments: consumer banking, global wealth and investment management, global banking, and global markets. Bank of America's consumer-facing lines of business include its network of branches and deposit-gathering operations, home mortgage lending, vehicle lending, credit and debit cards, and small-business services. The company's Merrill Lynch operations provide brokerage and wealth management services, as does U.S. Trust private bank. Wholesale lines of business include investment banking, corporate and commercial real estate lending, and capital markets operations. Bank of America has operations in several countries.

Baxter manufactures medical products across seven major reported business segments. The renal segment (33% of 2018 sales) includes peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis products for chronically ill patients while its acute therapies segment (5%) offers kidney or other organ support tools in intensive care situations. The medication delivery segment (24% of sales) sells IV pumps, administrative sets, and solutions while its nutrition segment (8% of sales) offers parenteral nutrition therapies. The pharmaceuticals segments (19% of sales) offers injectable drugs, anesthetic gases, and compounding services. The advanced surgery segment (7% of sales) provides hemostastic products and biosurgical sealants. Contract manufacturing rounds out the remaining 5% of sales.

Bed Bath & Beyond is a home furnishings retailer, operating around 1,530 stores in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico. Stores carry an assortment of branded bed and bath accessories, kitchen textiles, and cooking supplies. In addition to 994 Bed Bath & Beyond stores, the firm operates 277 Cost Plus stores, 124 Buybuy Baby stores, 81 Christmas Tree Shops and And That Stores (gifts/housewares), 55 Harmon Face Values stores (health/beauty care), linens/textile wholesaler Linen Holdings, and online retailers OneKingsLane, Personalizationmall, and Ofakind.

Becton, Dickinson is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of medical surgical products, such as needles, syringes, and sharps-disposal units. The company also manufactures diagnostic instruments and reagents, as well as flow cytometry and cell-imaging systems. International revenue accounts for 45% of the company's business. With CareFusion, BD has entered into medical systems (such as infusion pumps and ventilators) as well as procedural solutions businesses. The Bard deal gives the company a presence in urology, vascular, and oncology.

Ball is the world's largest metal can manufacturer. The company remains focused on both cost reductions associated with its acquisition of Rexam, and on pivoting toward faster-growing emerging-market economies in beverage cans. Ball maintains a small presence in both the North American food can market and the U.S. defense industry through its aerospace segment.

BorgWarner is a Tier I auto-parts supplier that has two operating segments. The engine group makes turbochargers, emissions system components, timing chains, and other items that enhance fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. Engine group products have averaged about 70% of sales. Drivetrain group produces transmission and four-wheel-drive/all-wheel-drive system components that facilitate the distribution of engine torque to the wheels. Wet dual-clutch products enable more fuel-efficient automotive transmissions.

Crown Castle owns and leases roughly 40,000 cell towers in the United States. It also owns more than 65,000 route miles of fiber. It leases space on its towers to wireless service providers, who install equipment on the towers to support their wireless networks. The company's fiber is primarily leased by wireless service providers to set up small cell network infrastructure and by enterprises for their internal connection needs. Crown Castle's towers and fiber are predominantly located in the largest U.S. cities. The company has a very concentrated customer base, with more than 70% of its revenue coming from the big four U.S. mobile carriers. Crown Castle operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT).

C.H. Robinson is a top-tier non-asset-based third-party logistics provider with a significant focus on domestic freight brokerage (66% of net revenue), which reflects mostly truck brokerage but also rail intermodal. It also operates a growing air and ocean forwarding unit (20%) and a legacy produce-sourcing operation (9%). The remainder of net revenue reflects transportation management services and the firm's European truck brokerage operations.

Cincinnati Financial Corp is a property and casualty insurance company that generates income through written premiums. A select group of independent agencies actively markets the company's business, home, and automotive insurance within their communities. These agents offer the company's personal lines as well as its standard market, excess, and surplus commercial line policies in many regions in the United States. Cincinnati Financial also offers leasing and financing services. The vast majority of the company's revenue is generated through commercial lines, followed by personal lines.

Comerica is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas. It has three major business segments: the business bank, the retail bank, and wealth management. Comerica is primarily focused on relationship-based commercial banking. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida, and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states as well as in Canada and Mexico.

Based in Chicago, CME Group operates exchanges that allow investors, suppliers, and businesses to trade futures and derivatives based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign currencies, energy, metals, and commodities. The CME was founded in 1898 and in 2002 completed its initial public offering. Since then, CME Group has consolidated part of the industry by merging with crosstown rival CBOT Holdings (2007) before acquiring Nymex Holdings in 2008. In addition, CME has a 27% stake in S&P/Dow Jones Indexes LLC along with an exclusive license to trade and clear S&P futures contracts.

Founded in 1919, Indiana-based Cummins designs, manufactures, distributes, and services diesel and natural gas engines, electric power generation systems, and engine-related products. It sells components directly to equipment manufacturers, including Paccar and Daimler as well as to a network of roughly 600 distributors and 7,600 dealers. Cummins generates about $23.8 billion in annual sales, of which 45% are earned outside the U.S. The company employs 62,610 people worldwide.

CSX is an $12 billion railroad operating in the Eastern United States. On its 20,800 miles of track, CSX hauls shipments of coal products (18% of consolidated revenue), chemicals (19%), intermodal containers (16%), automotive cargo (10%) and a diverse mix of other merchandise.

Citrix Systems provides enterprise-level virtualization software products. Its core virtualization suite includes the legacy XenDesktop product for desktop virtualization, XenApp for application virtualization, and XenMobile for mobile device management. The company also provides delivery networking solutions, most notably the application delivery controller NetScaler.

Based in Richmond, Virginia, Dominion Energy is an integrated energy company with approximately 31,000 megawatts of electric generation capacity; over 100,000 miles of natural gas transmission, distribution and gathering pipelines; and more than 93,000 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines. Dominion operates one of the nation's largest natural gas storage systems with over 1 trillion cubic feet of capacity, recently completed a liquefied natural gas export facility in Maryland, and is 48% owner of the under construction Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Discover Financial Services is a bank operating in two distinct segments: direct banking and payments. The company issues credit and debit cards and provides other consumer banking products including deposit accounts, students loans, and other personal loans. In addition, it generates revenue from payments processed on the Discover network. The Discover Network is the third-largest payment network as ranked by overall merchant acceptance, trailing Visa and Mastercard.

Digital Realty owns and operates over 200 data centers worldwide. It has more than 30 million rentable square feet and over 2,300 customers. Digital's offerings range from retail colocation, where an enterprise may rent a single cabinet and rely on Digital to provide all the accommodations, to "cold shells," where hyperscale cloud service providers can simply rent much, or all, of a barren, power-connected building. In recent years, Digital Realty has de-emphasized cold shells and now primarily provides higher-level service to tenants, which outsource their related IT needs to Digital. Digital Realty has also moved more into the colocation business, increasingly serving enterprises with smaller space and power needs. Digital Realty operates as a real estate investment trust, or REIT.

Dover is a diversified industrial manufacturing company with products and services that include digital printing for fast-moving consuming goods, marking and coding for the food and beverage industry, loaders for the waste collection industry, pumps for the transport of fluids, including petroleum and natural gas, and commercial refrigerators used in groceries and convenience stores. Most of the business operates in the United States. After the spin-off of Apergy, the company operates three segments: engineered systems, fluids, and refrigeration and food equipment.

DTE Energy owns two regulated utilities in Michigan. DTE Electric serves approximately 2.2 million customers in southeastern Michigan including Detroit. DTE Gas serves 1.3 million customers throughout the state. In addition, DTE has material non-utility businesses and investments including energy marketing and trading, natural gas pipelines, gathering and storage, and on-site industrial energy projects.

Devon Energy, based in Oklahoma City, is one of the largest independent exploration & production companies in North America. The firm's asset base in spread throughout onshore North America with franchise development assets in the Stack and Delaware Basin. Other shale assets include acreage in the Eagle Ford, Powder River Basin, and Barnett. The company also holds oil sands operations in Alberta, Canada. At year-end 2018, Devon's proven reserves totaled 1,927 million barrels of oil equivalent, or boe, with net production of 535 mboe/d. Oil and natural gas liquids made up 66% of production and 59% of proven reserves.

Ecolab produces and markets cleaning and sanitation products for the hospitality, healthcare, and industrial markets. The firm is the global market share leader in this category with a wide array of products and services, including dish and laundry washing systems, pest control, and infection control products. The company has a strong hold on the U.S. market and is looking to increase its profitability abroad. Additionally, Ecolab serves customers in water and energy end markets, selling customized solutions.

Established in 1920 to produce chemicals for Eastman Kodak, Eastman Chemical has grown into a global producer of chemicals, plastics, and fibers with manufacturing sites in seven countries. The company generates the majority of its sales outside of the United States, with a strong presence in Asian markets. During the past several years, Eastman has sold noncore businesses, choosing to focus on higher-margin specialty product offerings.

Eversource Energy, previously Northeast Utilities, is a diversified holding company with subsidiaries that provide regulated electric, gas and water distribution service. With the addition of NStar's Massachusetts utilities in 2012 and Aquarion in 2017, the company's utilities now serve 4 million customers in the region. Eversource exited most of its unregulated businesses in 2006.

Expeditors International of Washington is a non-asset-based third-party logistics provider, mainly focused on international freight forwarding. It employs sophisticated IT systems and contracts with airlines and steamship carriers to move customers' freight across the globe. The firm operates more than 185 full-service office locations worldwide, in addition to numerous satellite locations. In 2018, Expeditors derived 33% of consolidated net revenue from airfreight, 22% from ocean freight, and 45% from customs brokerage and other services.

Expedia is the world's largest online travel agency by bookings, offering services for lodging (69% of total 2018 sales), air tickets (8%), rental cars, cruises, in-destination, and other (14%), and advertising revenue (9%). Expedia operates a number of branded travel booking sites, including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelocity, Orbitz, Wotif, AirAsia, Engencia, and Vrbo. It has also expanded into travel media with the acquisition of Trivago. Transaction fees for online bookings account for the bulk of sales and profits.

Fortune Brands Home & Security is a leading home and security products company that operates four segments. The company's $2.5 billion (fiscal 2018) cabinets segment sells cabinets and vanities under the MasterBrand family of brands. The $2.0 billion plumbing segment, led by the Moen brand, sells faucets, showers, and other plumbing fixtures. The $1.4 billion doors and security segment sells entry doors under the Therma-Tru brand name and locks and other security devices under the Master Lock and SentrySafe brand names.

Fidelity National Information Services provides core and payment processing services to banks. In addition, it provides processing software for capital markets providers, asset managers, and custodians. The company serves more than 20,000 institutions in over 130 countries. North America accounts for 76% of revenue; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa another 15%; while Asia accounts for 5% of total sales.

FLIR Systems Inc design, develop, market, and distribute solutions that detect people, objects and substances that may not be perceived by human senses and improve the way people interact with the world around them. The company has offered thermal imaging systems, visible-light imaging systems, locator systems, measurement and diagnostic systems, and advanced threat-detection solutions - into daily life. The operating segments of the company are the Industrial Business Unit, Government and Defense Business Unit, and Commercial Business Unit.

Fluor is one of the largest global providers of engineering, procurement, construction, fabrication, operations, and maintenance services. The firm serves a wide range of end markets including oil and gas, chemicals, mining, metals, and transportation. The company's business is organized into four segments: energy & chemicals; mining, industrial, infrastructure & power; government; and diversified services. Fluor employs over 53,000 workers in more than 100 countries. The company generated $19 billion in revenue and $522 million in adjusted operating income in 2018.

Fortive Corporation is a United States-based diversified industrial growth company encompassing businesses that are recognized leaders in attractive markets. It has well-known brands in field solutions, transportation technology, sensing, product realization, automation and specialty, and franchise distribution markets. The company's two separate business segments consisting of Professional Instrumentation and Industrial Technologies. The Professional Instrumentation segment consists of its Advanced Instrumentation and Solutions, and Sensing Technologies businesses. The Industrial Technologies segment consists of its Transportation Technologies, Automation & Specialty Components, and Franchise Distribution businesses.

Corning Inc is a leading supplier of advanced glass substrates used in LCDs, fiber-optic cabling, and a variety of other materials science products. Corning operates in five segments: display technologies, optical communications, environmental technologies, specialty materials, and life sciences. Although headquartered in New York, the company's operations and geographic reach span the globe, with most of Corning's revenue generated in Asia-Pacific.

General Motors Co. emerged from the bankruptcy of General Motors Corp. (old GM) in July 2009. GM has eight brands and operates under three segments: GM North America, GM International, and GM Financial. The United States now has four brands instead of eight. The company remains the market leader in the U.S. with 17% share in 2018. GM Financial became the company's captive finance arm in October 2010 via the purchase of AmeriCredit.

Genuine Parts sells automotive parts (56% of 2018 net sales), industrial and electrical components (34% of 2018 net sales), and business products (10% of 2018 net sales). The company sells vehicle parts to commercial and retail customers through over 9,400 stores worldwide, most of which are independently owned. Its industrial unit supplies bearings, power transmission, industrial automation, hydraulic, and pneumatic components to maintenance, repair, and OEM clients.