Standout Stocks Profiles

Cisco Systems Inc. is an IP-based networking company offering products and services to service providers, companies, commercial users and individuals. Cisco is rapidly expanding its presence in network security domain. Security includes products and services preventing unauthorized access to system resources and protecting from worms, spam, viruses and other malware. The Data Center product category includes Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Server Access Virtualization. It also comprises of The Other products segment and Related Services.The company offers identity and access, advanced threat, and unified threat management solutions. The company has introduced Secure Remote Worker, which leverages Zero Trust Architecture, combined with robust endpoint security portfolio of AnyConnect, Umbrella, Duo and AMP for Endpoints.Cisco provides Next-Generation Network (NGN) Routers, that transport data, voice and video information from one IP network to another.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. offers network security solutions to enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide. The company's next generation firewall products deliver natively integrated application, user, and content visibility and control through its operating system, hardware and software architecture. It serves the enterprise network security market, which includes Firewall, Unified Threat Management, Web Gateway, Intrusion Detection and Prevention and Virtual Private Network technologies. Through its products and subscription services, Palo Alto provides integrated protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Its solutions incorporate application-specific integrated circuits, hardware architecture, operating system, and associated security and networking functions. The company's network security gateways protect customer data, reduce security complexities and lower total cost of ownership.

CrowdStrike is a leader in next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence and cyberattack response services.

Humana Inc. is a health care plan provider in the United States. The company provides health insurance benefits under Health Maintenance Organization, Private Fee-For-Service and Preferred Provider Organization plans. The company also provides other benefits with specialty products including dental, vision, and other supplementary benefits. Humana's medical and specialty insurance products allow members to access health care services primarily through its networks of health care providers. The company manages its business through the following segments: The Retail segment consists of Medicare benefits, which are marketed on a retail basis to individuals. The Group and Specialty segment comprises employer group commercial fully-insured medical and specialty health insurance benefits. The Healthcare Services - The segment consists of services offered to the company's health plan members as well as to third parties, including pharmacy solutions, provider services, home-based services and clinical programs.

APA Corp. is one of the world's leading independent energy companies engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids. Geographically, the company's operations are in the U.S., Egypt and in the North Sea of the U.K. APA also holds acreage in offshore Suriname (S. America) & other international locations. In the U.S., the upstream player mainly operates in the prolific Permian Basin. One of the largest oil producers in Permian, APA operates oil and gas wells in the region, with exposure to Midland Basin, Delaware Basin, Central Basin Platform/ Northwestern Shelf. APA's major find is Alpine High located in the southern portion of the Delaware Basin will likely be the key volume growth driver in the years to come. APA is also involved in the midstream business through its minority stake in Permian-focused Altus Midstream Company.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services is a provider of a broad range of transportation services to a diverse group of customers through the United States, Canada and Mexico. J.B. Hunt services include intermodal, dedicated, refrigerated, truckload, less-than-truckload, flatbed, single source, final mile, and more.

Targa Resources Corp. is a energy infrastructure company and provider of integrated midstream services in North America. The company primarily derives its revenues from gathering, compressing, treating, processing and selling natural gas. Targa Resources also provides services associated with natural gas liquids, including those to liquefied petroleum gas exporters and crude oil. The company has formidable position in the world's largest NGL hub - Mont Belvieu, TX. Further, the company owns state-of-the-art LPG export facilities on the Gulf Coast at its Galena Park Marine Terminal, which is interconnected to Mont Belvieu. The company also has a significant presence in the Permian basin - the region at the forefront of American energy growth. Targa Resources Grand Prix NGL pipeline out of the Permian helps it to bring gathering and processing volumes to Mont Belvieu fractionation and export facilities. Targa Resources has two main business segments in Gathering and Processing and Logistics and Transportation.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. Its operating segment includes oil and gas, chemical and midstream and marketing. Occidental Petroleum Corporation is based in HOUSTON, United States.

ConocoPhillips is primarily involved in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. Considering proved reserves and production, the company is the largest explorer and producer in the world. The company, founded in 1875, has strong presence across conventional and unconventional plays in 16 countries. ConocoPhillips' low risk and cost-effective operations spread across North America, Asia, Australia and Europe. The upstream energy player also has foothold in Canada's oil sand resources and has exposure to developments related to liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Altria has a leading portfolio of tobacco products for U.S. tobacco consumers age 21 . Altria's wholly owned subsidiaries include leading manufacturers of both combustible and smoke-free products. In combustibles, Altria owns Philip Morris USA Inc. (PM USA), the most profitable U.S. cigarette manufacturer, and John Middleton Co. (Middleton), a leading U.S. cigar manufacturer. Altria's smoke-free portfolio includes ownership of U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC (USSTC), the leading global moist smokeless tobacco (MST) manufacturer, and Helix Innovations LLC (Helix), a rapidly growing manufacturer of oral nicotine pouches. Altria also owns equity investments in Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (ABI), the world's largest brewer, and Cronos Group Inc. (Cronos), a leading Canadian cannabinoid company.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company with offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage.

Devon Energy Corporation is an independent energy company engaged primarily in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas. The company's oil and gas operations are mainly concentrated in the onshore areas of North America, primarily in the United States. In June 2019, Devon completed the sale of substantially all oil and gas assets, as well as operations in Canada. In October 2020, the company completed the sale of Barnett Shale assets. In aggregate, estimated proved reserves associated with these assets were 400 MMBoe (million barrels of oil equivalent), accounting for 21% of total proved reserves.Subsequent to the sale of Devon's Canadian business, its oil and gas exploration and production activities are solely concentrated in the United States. After completion of the Barnett Shale gas assets sale, the company will concentrate on oil assets in the United States.

Halliburton Company is one of the largest oilfield service providers in the world, offering a variety of equipment, maintenance, and engineering and construction services to the energy, industrial and government sectors. Halliburton operates under two main segments: Completion and Production, and Drilling and Evaluation. The Completion and Production segment supplies cementing, stimulation, intervention and completion services. The unit comprises production enhancement services, completion tools and services, and cementing services. Halliburton's Drilling and Evaluation segment provides field and reservoir modeling, drilling, evaluation, and well construction solutions that allow clients to model, measure and optimize their well placement, stability and reservoir evaluation activities. The division consists of fluid services, drilling services, drill bits, wireline and perforating services, testing and subsea services, software and asset solutions, as well as project management services.

F5 Networks Inc provides products and services to manage Internet traffic worldwide. Its application, delivery and networking products improve performance, availability and security of applications running on networks that use the Internet Protocol (IP). The company offers BIG-IP products to manage the IP traffic between network servers, clients and other devices. The company's FirePass systems provide SSL VPN access to remote IP network users and any applications connected to those networks from any standard web browser on any device. F5 Networks also offers TrafficShield, a web application firewall that provides an application-layer protection against generalized and targeted attacks. The company's WANJet devices helps to combine wide area network optimization and traffic shaping in a single device to accelerate file transfers, email, data replication and other applications over the IP networks.

eBay operates as an online shopping site that allows visitors to browse through available products listed for sale or auction through each company's online storefront. Over the years, the company has evolved from a relatively small community user-based auction site to a worldwide commercial behemoth store.

Diamondback Energy, Inc. is an independent oil and gas exploration & production company, with its primary focus on the Permian Basin. The upstream operator focuses on growth through a combination of acquisitions and active drilling in America's hottest and lowest-cost shale region. The Permian `Super' BasinA sedimentary basin lying underneath the western part of Texas and the south-eastern part of New Mexico.

The Williams Companies, Inc. is a premier energy infrastructure provider in North America. The company's core operations include finding, producing, gathering, processing, and transportation of natural gas and natural gas liquids. Williams is one of the largest domestic transporters of natural gas by volume. Its facilities (gas wells, pipelines, and midstream services) are concentrated in the Northwest, Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast, and Eastern Seaboard. Williams Companies currently reports results under five segments. These include Atlantic-Gulf, West, Northeast G&P, Sequent and Others.

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. is one of the largest stock exchange operators by volume in the United States and a leading market globally for ETP trading. Cboe offers trading across a diverse range of products in multiple asset classes and geographies, including options, futures, U.S. and European equities, exchange-traded products (ETPs), global foreign exchange (FX) and multi-asset volatility products based on the VIX Index. Cboe's trading venues include the largest options exchange in the United States and the largest stock exchange by value traded in Europe. CBOE reports the results of its operations in 5 business segments: Options, Futures, U.S. Equities, European Equities, and Global FX.

Valero Energy Corporation is the largest independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products in the United States. It has refineries located throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Moreover, Valero is a leading ethanol producer with ethanol plants in the Midwest. The products of the company are sold in the markets of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Latin America. The company's brand names are carried by outlets. The company organizes its business through three reportable segments, namely, Refining, Ethanol and Renewable Diesel.

CVS Health Corporation is a pharmacy innovation company. Its offerings include pharmacy benefit management services, mail order, retail and specialty pharmacy, disease management programs, and retail clinics. The Company serves employers, insurance companies, unions, government employee groups, managed care organizations and other sponsors of health benefit plans, and individuals under the CVS Caremark Pharmacy Services, Caremark, CVS Caremark, CarePlus CVS/pharmacy, RxAmerica, Accordant, SilverScript, and Novologix names. CVS Health Corporation, formerly known as CVS Caremark Corporation, is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

SLB is a technology company. SLB, formerly known as Schlumberger Limited, is based in Texas, United States.

CSX Corporation is one of United States' leading transportation companies. The company offers rail-based freight transportation services like traditional rail service, transport of intermodal containers and trailers apart from rail-to- truck transfers. CSX offers customers access to a large and interconnected transportation network. CSX Transportation is the company's primary operating subsidiary. Through the subsidiary, the company provides an important link to the transportation supply chain through its rail network, spanning across approximately 19,500 route miles. CSXT also offers service to multiple production and distribution facilities apart from managing activities like real estate sales. CSX owns multiple locomotives. Freight, switching and auxiliary units are present in the locomotive fleet. CSX also leases locomotives on a short-term basis.

Datadog Inc. is a monitoring and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams and business users in the cloud age. The company's business runs around its portfolio of over 400 out-of-the-box integrations including public cloud, private cloud, on-premise hardware, databases and third-party software. The company's Software as a Service platform integrates and automates Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring, Log Management, User Experience Monitoring, Network Performance Monitoring, Security Monitoring, Incident Management and Continuous Profiler that can be used individually or as a unified solution by customers. The company has a single operating and reportable segment. Solid uptake of its cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform also helped Datadog strengthen customer base. Datadog generates revenues from the sale of subscriptions to customers using its cloud-based platform.

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is a leading independent refiner, transporter and marketer of petroleum products. The company came into existence following the spin-off of Marathon Oil Corporation's refining/sales business into a separate, independent and publicly-traded entity.' Marathon Oil completed the acquisition of its rival Andeavor. Marathon Petroleum operates in two segments: Refining and Marketing and Pipeline Transportation. Refining and Marketing: The unit's operations refineries, located in the various regions of the United States. Marathon Petroleum through its marketing organization sells transportation fuels, asphalt and specialty products throughout the country to support commercial, industrial and retail operations. Midstream: This unit mainly reflects Marathon Petroleum's general partner and majority limited partner interests in MPLX LP and Andeavor Logistics LP that own and operate gathering and processing assets along with crude transportation and logistics infrastructure.

Phillips 66's operations incorporate refining, midstream, marketing and specialties, and chemicals. The company's operations include processing, transportation, storing and marketing fuels and products all over the world. The company operates through the four business segments, namely, Midstream, Chemicals, Refining, and Marketing and Specialties. Midstream gathers, processes, transports and markets natural gas; and transports, fractionates and markets NGL in the United States. In addition, this segment transports crude oil and other feedstocks to its refineries and other locations, and delivers refined and specialty products to the market. Chemicals manufacture and markets petrochemicals and plastics on a worldwide basis. Refining buys, sells and refines crude oil and other feedstocks at its refineries. Marketing and Specialties purchases for resale and markets refined products. In addition, this segment includes the manufacturing and marketing of specialty products.

Baker Hughes Company is one of the world's largest oilfield service providers. The integrated oilfield products and digital solutions of Baker Hughes help customers efficiently and cost-effectively refine and transport hydrocarbons with low environmental concerns. Moreover, with growing demand for clean energy and the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions, countries around the world are investing in LNG terminals. This has given Baker Hughes the opportunity to expand its reach beyond oilfields in order to capitalize on contracts for manufacturing equipment that is being used in LNG facilities.

State Street Corporation is a financial holding company. It provides a range of products and services for institutional investors worldwide through its subsidiaries. The company primarily performs its business through its principal banking subsidiary, State Street Bank. Its customers include providers of mutual funds, managers of collective investment funds and other investment pools, providers of corporate and public retirement plans, insurance companies, foundations, endowments and investment managers. State Street's Investment Servicing division offers a range of services, including custody, product-and participant-level accounting, daily pricing and administration; master trust and master custody; recordkeeping; shareholder accounting; foreign exchange, brokerage and other trading; securities finance; deposit and short-term investment facilities; loans and lease financing; outsourcing of investment manager and hedge fund manager operations, as well as performance, risk and compliance analytics.

Principal Financial Group Inc. is a leader in global investment management company offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services, including retirement, asset management and insurance through our diverse family of financial services companies. The global asset management businesses provide long-term investment strategies to institutional, retirement, high net worth and retail clients by offering a range of capabilities including equity, fixed income, real estate and other alternative investments, as well as fund offerings. In the United States, the company primarily focuses on small and medium-sized businesses by offering a broad array of retirement and employee benefit solutions and individual insurance solutions.

Alphabet has evolved from primarily being a search-engine provider to cloud computing, ad-based video and music streaming, autonomous vehicles, healthcare providers and others. In the online search arena, Google is a monopoly with more than 94% of the online search volume and market. Over the years, the company has witnessed increase in search queries, resulting from ongoing growth in user adoption and usage, primarily on mobile devices, continued growth in advertiser activity, and improvements in ad formats. The company is gaining market share in the cloud-computing, driven by continued strength in Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace. Alphabet also enjoys a dominant position in the autonomous vehicles market, thanks to Waymo's relentless efforts. Also, it has bolstered its footprint in the healthcare industry with its life science division, Verily.

ON Semiconductor Corporation is an equipment manufacturer of a broad range of discrete & embedded semiconductor components. Onsemi's product lines include bipolar transistors, diodes, filters, FETs, rectifiers & thyristors. Secure supply of SiC to meet growing dem& of customers for SiC based solutions. The company's acquisitions of Cypress Semiconductor's CMOS Image Sensor Business Unit, SANYO Semiconductor, AMI Semiconductor, Analog Devices' power PC controller business, CMD, Catalyst, & SoundDesign gave it new technical capabilities, some custom ASIC products, higher-margin products, exposure to new end markets & greater product breadth. The power management product line includes AC-DC controllers & regulators, DC-DC converters & regulators, drivers, thermal managers, & voltage controllers, references & supervisors. The logic product line includes clocking, memory, differential logic & st&ard logic products.

UnitedHealth Group, Inc. provides a wide range of health care products and services, such as health maintenance organizations, point of service plans, preferred provider organizations and managed fee-for-service programs. UnitedHealth has the most diverse membership base within the managed-care organization market, which gives it significant competitive advantages. The company has acquired a number of competing healthcare which transformed it from a pure health insurer to a comprehensive healthcare provider. UnitedHealth reports through two segments: UnitedHealthcare and Optum. UnitedHealthcareis divided into UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual; UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement; UnitedHealthcare Community & State and UnitedHealthcare Global; providing health care benefits globally. Optum is a technology-enabled health services business serving the broad health care marketplace, including those who need care. The segment is divided into OptumHealth, OptumInsight, OptumRx and Optum eliminations.

Alphabet Inc. is engaged in technology business. The Company provides web-based search, advertisements, maps, software applications, mobile operating systems, consumer content, enterprise solutions, commerce and hardware products through its subsidiaries. Alphabet Inc., formerly known as Google Inc., is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Interactive Brokers Group Inc. operates as an automated global electronic market maker and broker. The company specializes in routing orders, besides executing and processing trades in securities, futures, foreign exchange instruments, bonds and mutual funds on more than 135 electronic exchanges and market centers world wide. In the United States, it conducts its business primarily from Greenwich and Chicago. Across the globe, it conducts business through offices in Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Hungary, India, China (Hong Kong and Shanghai), Japan, Singapore, and Australia. The company has been working continuously to wind down its Market Making segment and focus more on the Electronic Brokerage segment. The company strives to provide customers with advantageous execution prices and trading, risk and portfolio management tools, research facilities and investment products, all at low prices, positioning the company to achieve superior returns on investments.

Archer Daniels Midland Company is one of the leading producers of food and beverage ingredients as well as goods made from various agricultural products. The company processes oilseeds, corn, wheat, cocoa and other feedstuffs. Moreover, it engages in the manufacturing, sale, and distribution of products like natural flavor ingredients, flavor systems, natural colors, proteins, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, natural health and nutrition products as well as other specialty food and feed ingredients. Archer Daniels also has a worldwide grain elevator and transportation network for procurement, storage, cleansing and transportation of agricultural commodities.

Franklin Resources, Inc. is a global investment management company. The majority of its operating revenues and net income is derived from offering investment management and related services to retail mutual funds, institutional and private accounts, and other investment products. The mutual funds and other products are sold to the public under different brands like Franklin, Templeton, Legg Mason, Balanced Equity Management, Benefit Street Partners, Brandywine Global Investment Management and Clarion Partners. Franklin's principal line of business provides investment advisory and management services to investors worldwide through products that include U.S. and non-U.S.-registered open-end and closed-end funds, unregistered funds, and institutional, high net-worth and separately-managed accounts. It offers an array of fixed income, equity, multi-asset, alternative, and cash management asset classes and solutions.

NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the graphic processing unit, or GPU. Over the years, the company's focus has evolved from PC graphics to artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions that now support high performance computing (HPC), gaming and virtual reality (VR) platforms.NVIDIA's GPU success can be attributed to its parallel processing capabilities supported by thousands of computing cores, which are necessary to run deep learning algorithms. The company's GPU platforms are playing a major role in developing multi-billion-dollar end-markets like robotics and self-driving vehicles.NVIDIA is a dominant name in the Data Center, professional visualization and gaming markets where Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are playing a catch-up role. The company's partnership with almost all major cloud service providers (CSPs) and server vendors is a key catalyst.

Texas Instruments, Inc. is an original equipment manufacturer of analog, mixed signal and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits. TI has manufacturing and design facilities, including wafer fabrication and assembly/test operations in North America, Asia and Europe. Management's strategy has been to build assets that would be fully utilized through their lifetimes and outsource any excess demand in peak situations to outside foundries. Analog products have been categorized into three: high performance analog, high volume analog and logic, and power management. The Embedded Processing segment includes TI's OMAP, connectivity solutions, non-wireless DSPs and microprocessors. The Other segment includes smaller semiconductor product lines, such as DLP products, RISC microprocessors and ASICs, calculators and other schoolroom tools, and royalties. The company's products are sold in industrial, personal electronics, automotive, communications, enterprise and other end-markets.

Starbucks is a roaster, marketer and retailer of specialty coffee. They purchase and roast coffees that they sell, along with handcrafted coffee, tea, and other beverages and a variety of food items through company-operated stores. They also sell a variety of coffee and tea products and license their trademarks through other channels, such as licensed stores as well as grocery and foodservice through their Global Coffee Alliance with Nestl' S.A. In addition to their flagship Starbucks Coffee(R) brand, they sell goods and services under the following brands: Teavana(R), Ethos(R), and Starbucks Reserve(R).

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of nitrogenous fertilizer and other nitrogen products globally. The company's principal nitrogenous fertilizer products are ammonia, granular urea, urea ammonium nitrate solution and ammonium nitrate. CF Industries is a leading nitrogen fertilizer producer in North America. The company operates two of the largest fertilizer complexes in North America, one in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, United States and the other in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.

DaVita Inc. is a leading provider of dialysis services in the U.S. to patients suffering from chronic kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The company operates kidney dialysis centers and provides related medical services primarily in dialysis centers and in contracted hospitals across the U.S. Its services include outpatient dialysis services, hospital inpatient dialysis services and ancillary services such as ESRD laboratory services and disease management services. DaVita's Dialysis and related lab services business segment provides inpatient as well as outpatient dialysis services, routine laboratory testing for ESRD patients and management services to outpatient dialysis centers. The company's other ancillary services and strategic initiatives segment includes its international dialysis services, pharmacy services, infusion therapy services, disease management services, vascular access services, ESRD clinical research programs and physician services.