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Johnson & Johnson

NYSE:JNJ

Johnson & Johnson is a holding company, which engages in the research and development, manufacture and sale of products in the health care field. The company is headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey and currently employs 141,700 full-time employees. The firm operates through three segments: Consumer Health, Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices. Its primary focus is products related to human health and well-being. The Consumer Health segment includes a range of products that is focused on personal healthcare used in the skin health/beauty, over-the-counter medicines, baby care, oral care, women’s health and wound care markets. The Pharmaceutical segment is focused on six therapeutic areas: Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Neuroscience, Oncology, Cardiovascular and Metabolism and Pulmonary Hypertension. The Medical Devices segment includes a range of products used in the interventional solutions, orthopaedics, surgery, and vision fields. Its geographic area includes the United States, Europe, Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States), and Africa, Asia and Pacific.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc

NYSE:BRK.A

Berkshire Hathaway Inc is a US-based company operating in Diversified Financial Services industry. The company is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska and currently employs 372,000 full-time employees. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in various business activities, including insurance and reinsurance, utilities and energy, freight rail transportation, manufacturing and retailing. Its segments include Insurance, such as GEICO, Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group and Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group; Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC, which is engaged in the operation of the railroad system; Berkshire Hathaway Energy, which includes regulated electric and gas utility; Manufacturing, which includes manufacturers of various products, including industrial, consumer and building products; McLane Company, which is engaged in the wholesale distribution of groceries and non-food items; Service and retailing, which includes providers of various services, including shared aircraft ownership programs, aviation pilot training, electronic components distribution and various retailing businesses, including automobile dealerships and furniture leasing.

Bank of America Corp

NYSE:BAC

Bank of America Corp. is a bank and financial holding company, which engages in the provision of banking and nonbank financial services. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently employs 208,000 full-time employees. The firm's segments include Consumer Banking, Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM), Global Banking, and Global Markets. Consumer Banking segment offers a range of credit, banking and investment products and services to consumers and small businesses. The GWIM segment provides client experience through a network of financial advisors focused on clients with over $250,000 in total investable assets, including solutions to meet client's needs through a set of investment management, brokerage, banking, and retirement products. Global Banking segment provides a range of lending-related products and services, integrated working capital management and treasury solutions, and underwriting and advisory services. Global Markets segment offers sales and trading services and research services to institutional clients across fixed-income, credit, currency, commodity, and equity businesses.

Mastercard Inc

NYSE:MA

Mastercard, Inc. operates as a technology company. The company is headquartered in Purchase, New York and currently employs 24,000 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2006-05-25. The firm allows user to make payments by creating a range of payment solutions and services using its brands, which include MasterCard, Maestro and Cirrus. The company provides a range of products and solutions that support payment products, which customers can offer to their cardholders. The firm's services facilitate transactions on its core network among account holders, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, governments and other organizations in markets globally. Its products include consumer credit, consumer debit, prepaid and commercial credit and debit. The company also provides integrated offerings such as cyber and intelligence products, information and analytics services, identity verification services, consulting, loyalty and reward programs, processing and open banking.

UnitedHealth Group Inc

NYSE:UNH

UnitedHealth Group, Inc. engages in the provision of health care coverage, software, and data consultancy services. The company is headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota and currently employs 350,000 full-time employees. The Company’s segments include Optum Health, Optum Insight, Optum Rx and UnitedHealthcare. Optum Health provides health and wellness care, addressing the physical, emotional and health-related financial needs. Optum Health, through its national health care delivery platform, engages people in care settings, including clinical sites, in-home and virtual. Optum Insight serves the needs of health systems, such as physicians and hospital systems, health plans, state governments and life sciences companies. Optum Rx provides a range of pharmacy care services through retail pharmacies, specialty and community health pharmacies and provides in-home and community-based infusion services. UnitedHealthcare segment includes UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, UnitedHealthcare Community & State and UnitedHealthcare Global.

Exxon Mobil Corp

NYSE:XOM

Exxon Mobil Corp. engages in the exploration, development, and distribution of oil, gas, and petroleum products. The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas and currently employs 63,000 full-time employees. The Company’s principal business involves exploration for, and production of, crude oil and natural gas, and the manufacture, trade, transport and sale of crude oil, natural gas, petroleum products, petrochemicals and a range of specialty products. The firm's segments include Upstream, Downstream and Chemical. The Upstream segment is organized and operates to explore for and produce crude oil and natural gas. The Downstream segment manufactures, trades and sells petroleum products. The refining and supply operations encompass a global network of manufacturing plants, transportation systems, and distribution centers that provide a range of fuels, lubricants and other products and feedstocks to its customers around the world. The Chemical segment is organized and operates to manufacture and sell petrochemicals. The Chemical business supplies olefins, polyolefins, aromatics, and a variety of other petrochemicals.

Pfizer Inc

NYSE:PFE

Pfizer Inc. is a research-based global biopharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 79,000 full-time employees. The firm is engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, marketing, sales and distribution of biopharmaceutical products. Its global portfolio includes medicines and vaccines. The firm offers therapeutic candidates in gastroenterology, dermatology, and cardiology, including etrasimod, an oral, selective sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator in development for a range of immuno-inflammatory diseases, including ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s Disease, atopic dermatitis, eosinophilic esophagitis, and alopecia areata. The firm works across markets to develop wellness, prevention, treatments and cures. The company collaborates with healthcare providers, governments and local communities to support and provide access to healthcare. The firm's medicines and vaccines provide value for healthcare providers and patients, through treatment of diseases, improvements in health, wellness.

Nike Inc

NYSE:NKE

NIKE, Inc. engages in the design, development, marketing, and sale of athletic footwear, apparel, accessories, equipment, and services. The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon and currently employs 73,300 full-time employees. The firm's operating segments include North America, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), Greater China, and Asia Pacific & Latin America (APLA). The company focuses its NIKE Brand product offerings in categories such as Running, NIKE Basketball, the Jordan Brand, Football (Soccer), Training and Sportswear. The company also markets products designed for kids, as well as for other athletic and recreational uses such as American football, baseball, cricket, golf, lacrosse, skateboarding, tennis, volleyball, walking, wrestling and other outdoor activities. The company sells a line of performance equipment and accessories under the NIKE Brand name, including bags, socks, sport balls, eyewear, timepieces, digital devices, bats, gloves, protective equipment and other equipment designed for sports activities.

Visa Inc

NYSE:V

Visa, Inc. engages in the provision of digital payment services. The company is headquartered in Foster City, California and currently employs 21,500 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2008-03-25. The firm connects consumers, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, strategic partners and government entities to electronic payments. The firm operates through payment services segment. The firm's transaction processing network, VisaNet, facilitates authorization, clearing and settlement of payment transactions and enables to provide its financial institution and merchant clients a range of products, platforms and value-added services. Its products/services include transaction processing services and Visa-branded payment products. The firm also offers Tink, an open banking platform that enables financial institutions, fintech and merchants to build financial products and services and move money. Tink enables its customers to move money, access aggregated financial data, and use smart financial services such as risk insights, and others.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

NYSE:BABA

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is a CN-based company operating in Internet & Direct Marketing Retail industry. The company is headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang and currently employs 259,316 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2014-09-19. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is a holding company that provides the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with users and customers to operate. The firm operates four business segments. The Core Commerce segment provides China retail, China wholesale, International retail, International wholesale, Cainiao logistics services and local consumer services through Taobao Marketplace and Tmall. The Cloud Computing segment provides complete suite of cloud services, including database, storage, network virtualization services, big data analytics and others. The Digital Media and Entertainment segment provides consumer services beyond the core business operations. The Innovation Initiatives and Others segment is to innovate and deliver new services and products.