Standout Stocks Profiles

Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest hard disk drive producers in the U.S. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of HDDs used in desktop PCs, servers, network-attached storage devices, video game consoles, digital video recorders and a host of other consumer electronic devices. The acquisition of SanDisk enabled the company to venture into the flash drive storage technology space. Western Digital sells hard drives of 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factors with storage capacities ranging from 30 gigabytes (GB) to 6 terabytes (TB). The company's solid-state drives (SSDs) include 2.5-inch, mSATA, MO-297 and CompactFlash form factors, with storage capacities ranging from 128 megabytes (MB) to 400 GB. The company provides WD software applications, such as WD Photos and WD 2GO to the mobile computing market. The company's solutions are compatible with Apple's iOS, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Platforms.

Through global brands, namely Micron, Crucial and Ballistix, Micron manufactures and markets high-performance memory and storage technologies including Dynamic Random Access Memory, NAND flash memory, NOR Flash, 3D XPoint memory and other technologies. Its solutions are used in leading-edge computing, consumer, networking and mobile products.

Ross Stores Inc. operates as an off-price retailer of apparel and home accessories, primarily in the United States. The company operates its stores under the Ross Dress for Less (Ross) and dd's DISCOUNTS names. The company's stores are located mostly in community and neighborhood shopping centers in heavily populated urban and suburban areas. Ross Stores primarily offers in-season, branded, and designer apparel, footwear, accessories and other home-related merchandise for everyone in the family. This format primarily targets middle-income households. Prices offered at Ross are generally 20% to 60% below the regular prices of most department and specialty stores. dd's DISCOUNTS features more moderately-priced first-quality, in-season, name brand apparel, accessories, footwear, and home fashions for the entire family. These stores target moderate-income households. The dd's DISCOUNTS stores offer products at a 20% to 70% lesser price than the moderate department and discount stores.

Sandisk Corporation is a flash and advanced memory technology innovator. Sandisk Corporation is based in MILPITAS, Calif.

Moderna, Inc. is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, primarily focused on discovering and developing messenger RNA (mRNA) based therapies. The company's mRNA based COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax (mRNA-1273), is approved for use in adults in the United States. The vaccine is also authorized for emergency use in several countries as COVID-19 vaccine. The company has also developed booster doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and is developing variant-specific booster candidates.

Albemarle Corporation is a premier specialty chemicals company with leading positions in attractive end markets globally. It is a leading producer of highly-engineered specialty chemicals geared to meet customer requirements across a bevy of end markets including petroleum refining, consumer electronics, energy storage, construction and automotive.

Bunge Ltd. is an integrated global agribusiness and food company spanning the farm-to-consumer food chain. Bunge processes, produces, moves, distributes and markets food on five continents.

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.

Quanta is a leading national provider of specialty contracting services, and one of the largest contractors serving the transmission and distribution sector of the North American electric utility industry. Quanta has operations in the United States, Canada, Australia and other selected international markets.

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.

Digital Realty Trust is engaged in the ownership, acquisition, repositioning and management of the technology-related real estate. Specifically, the company offers data center, colocation and interconnection solutions for domestic and international tenants through its portfolio of data centers located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The tenants belong to a wide variety of industry verticals, ranging from financial services, cloud and information technology services, to manufacturing, energy, healthcare and consumer products. Digital Realty is diversified in major metropolitan areas where data center and technology customers are concentrated. Particularly, in North America, the company has presence in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Northern Virginia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley and Toronto metropolitan areas.

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.

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.

RTX Corporation is an aerospace and defense company. Its operating segments include Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, and Raytheon Missiles & Defense. RTX Corporation, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies Corporation, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

FirstEnergy Corporation is a diversified energy company. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, FirstEnergy engages in the transmission, distribution and generation of electricity. 'FirstEnergy's reportable segments are Regulated Distribution, Regulated Transmission and Other.

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.

Gilead Sciences is a pioneer in developing drugs for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus, liver diseases, hematology/oncology diseases and inflammation/respiratory diseases. The company has a strong HIV franchise with key HIV/AIDS therapies like tenofovir alafenamide based products - Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Truvada. The portfolio also includes hepatitis C virus drugs like Harvoni and Epclusa and HBV drug. The first cell therapy approved for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma, has diversified Gilead's portfolio. Tecartus, another CAR T-cell therapy, was granted an accelerated approval in the United States for the treatment of relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma. The company is also working on diversifying and growing its business beyond antivirals into other therapeutic areas. Gilead is also making inroads in the oncology space with strategic collaborations and acquisitions.

NiSource Inc. is an energy holding company and together with its subsidiaries provides natural gas, electricity and other products and services in the U.S. NiSource has one of the nation's largest natural gas distribution networks as measured by number of customers. NiSource's principal subsidiary is NiSource Gas Distribution Group, Inc., which is a natural gas distribution holding company. The company generates the majority of its operating income from its rate-regulated businesses. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary NiSource Gas Distribution Group, it owns distribution subsidiaries that provide natural gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers.

HCA Healthcare Inc. is a provider of healthcare services comprising hospitals and ambulatory sites of care including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers and physician clinics. HCA Healthcare Inc., formerly known as HCA HOLDINGS, is based in NASHVILLE, Tenn.

EQT Corporation is primarily an explorer and producer of natural gas, with primary focus on the Appalachian Basin in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The basin has been a major contributor to natural gas production growth in the United States. Notably, in terms of average daily sales volumes, EQT Corp is the largest natural gas producer in the domestic market. The upstream energy payer's operations in the basin spreads across millions of acres, with proved oil and gas reserve. Importantly, the company's core resources in the Appalachian Basin comprises huge inventory of drilling locations. The company has decided to spud wells in the Marcellus shale play in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio that is likely to back the company's incremental production volumes in the years to come. EQT Corp has set its strategic priorities to lower operating costs while maximizing production volumes. It is to be noted that EQT Corp is the only company in the Appalachian Basin that is considered investment grade.

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.

KLA Corporation is an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of process diagnostics and control (PDC) equipment and yield management solutions required for the fabrication of semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) or chips. The company has a comprehensive portfolio of products addressing each major PDC subsegment'photomask (reticle) inspection, wafer inspection/defect review and metrology.Reticle production is vital to the semiconductor device formation process. Reticles are used to control the precise deposition of materials onto the wafer, which ultimately change its chemical characteristics, imparting specific functionalities to the ICs thus created. Inspection and metrology tools measure the quality of the reticles, helping to improve reticle production yields. As a result of the broader applicability of semiconductors, shrinking form factors and increasing functionalities of individual chips, reticle design and production are growing in importance.

American Electric Power Company, Inc. is a public utility holding company, which, through directly and indirectly owned subsidiaries, generates, transmits and distributes electricity, natural gas and other commodities. It is one of the largest integrated utilities in the U.S., serving more than 5.5 million customers in multiple states. Its service area covers Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The company mainly operates under the following business segments: Vertically Integrated Utility Operations, Transmission & Distribution Utilities, AEP Transmission Holdco, Generation and Marketing. Its public utility subsidiaries are Appalachian Power Company, Indiana Michigan Power Company, Kentucky Power Company, Kingsport Power Company, Ohio Power Company, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, Southwestern Electric Power Company, AEP Texas Central Company, AEP Texas North Company, Wheeling Power Company, etc.

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.

Ventas, Inc. is a healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT), engaged in acquisition, ownership and leasing of senior housing, life science, research & innovation (R&I) and healthcare properties. It has portfolios of more than 1,200 properties located in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., including senior housing communities, medical office buildings, life science, research & innovation centers, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term acute-care facilities and health systems. It offers MOB management, leasing, marketing, facility development and advisory services to hospitals & health systems via its ownership interest in PMB Real Estate Services LLC and its subsidiary, Lillibridge Healthcare Services, Inc. It makes secured and non-mortgage loans and other investments relating to senior housing and healthcare properties/ operators. It has 3 units: triple-net leased properties, senior living operations and office operations.

Atmos Energy Corporation, along with its subsidiaries, is engaged in regulated natural gas distribution and storage business. The company serves natural gas distribution customers from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. The company operates miles of transmission and distribution lines as well as miles of interstate pipelines. Atmos Energy's operating strategy has been focused on modernizing its transmission and distribution network as well as reducing regulatory lag.

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers' mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains.

General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company that specializes in high-end design, engineering and manufacturing to deliver state-of-the-art solutions to customers. It offers a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation; ship construction and repair; land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions; and technology products and services. It comprises 10 business units, which are organized into 4 operating segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems and Technologies. It refers to the latter 3 collectively as its defense segments. It invests in Aerospace to bring to market an all-new lineup of business jet aircraft, capital investments in Marine Systems to support significant growth in the U.S. Navy ship and submarine construction, development of next-generation platforms & technologies to meet customers' emerging requirements in Combat Systems, and strategic acquisitions to achieve critical mass and build out a complete spectrum of solutions.

Chevron is one of the largest publicly traded oil and gas companies in the world with operations that span almost every corner of the globe. The only energy component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Chevron is fully integrated, meaning it participates in every aspect related to energy from oil production, to refining and marketing. Chevron remains well positioned to navigate the volatility in oil and gas prices.Being an integrated firm engaged in all aspects of the oil and gas business. Chevron divides its operations into two main segments: Upstream and Downstream. Chevron's other activities include transportation and chemicals. Chevron's current oil and gas development project pipeline is among the best in the industry.

NextEra Energy Inc. is a public utility holding company engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electric energy. The company has both regulated and non-regulated energy-related products and services, with operations in the U.S. and Canada. NextEra Energy's primary subsidiaries are Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), Gulf Power Company and NextEra Energy Resources LLC (NEER). NextEra Energy Capital Holdings, Inc. (NEECH) is a wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra, which owns and provides funds for NEER and other operating subsidiaries apart from FPL and its subsidiaries. In 2014, NextEra Energy formed NextEra Energy Partners, LP' to own, manage and acquire contracted clean energy projects.NextEra Energy produces a large volume of electricity from wind and solar energy. The company, through its subsidiaries, is advocating higher usage of clean fuel sources to generate electricity and aiming to reduce total carbon emissions by 67% within 2025 from 2005 base.

Lockheed Martin Corp., the largest defense contractor in the world, serves in defense, space, intelligence, homeland security and information technology including cyber security to the U.S. Government, international customers and U.S. commercial & other customers. It has 4 businesses: Aeronautics, Missiles & Fire Control (MFC), Rotary & Missions Systems (RMS) and Space Systems. Its Aeronautics is engaged in the design, research and development, systems integration, production and support of advanced military aircraft and related technologies, including programs like F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter; C-130 Hercules; F-16 Fighting Falcon; F-22 Raptor; and C-5M Super Galaxy. Its MFC includes the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System, Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, PAC-3 Missiles, logistics, etc.'Its RMS includes the Aegis Combat System, Littoral Combat Ship, MH-60 helicopter avionics, and military & commercial orders. Its Space Systems is engaged in commercial and military space systems.

Eversource Energy, earlier known as Northeast Utilities, engages in the energy delivery business. It transmits and delivers electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The reportable segments are as follows:'The Electric Distribution segment consists of'the distribution businesses of The Connecticut Light and Power Company, NSTAR Electric Company, and Public Service Company of New Hampshire. Through Electric Transmission, the company owns and controls transmission facilities of CL&P, NSTAR Electric, and PSNH through the segment. Its Natural Gas Distribution segment serves customers in central and eastern Massachusetts and in Connecticut through NSTAR Gas Company and Yankee Gas Services Company, respectively. The Water Distribution segment was created when Eversource acquired Aquarion Water Company in December 2017.'

Dell Technologies Inc. is a provider of information technology solutions. The company's operating segment consists of Client Solutions, Enterprise Solutions Group and Dell Software Group. Client Solutions segment includes sales to commercial and consumer customers of desktops, thin client products, notebooks as well as services and third-party software and peripherals of Client Solutions hardware. ESG segment includes servers, networking and storage as well as services and third-party software and peripherals of ESG hardware. DSG segment includes systems management, security software solutions and information management software offerings. Dell Technologies Inc. is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.

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.