Eli Lilly is a leading producer of a new type of diabetes/weight loss drug. Eli Lilly’s trade name for their drug is Mounjaro. It was approved in the US in 2022 for treatment of Type 2 diabetes and is expected to be approved as a weight-loss drug by year-end.

Medtronic was founded in Minneapolis in 1949 as a medical equipment repair company. It is headquartered for tax reasons in Dublin and has a market capitalization of $123 billion. It gets 60% of its sales and profits outside the U.S. and employs 86,000 people in 140 countries. More than 10% of its employees are research scientists, which ensures a steady stream of new products.

Rogers is one of Canada’s largest wireless and cable companies.

Cameco is one of the world’s largest uranium producers, with mines at McArthur River and Cigar Lake in Saskatchewan and refineries in Ontario. As governments and investors have become more favourably inclined towards non-carbon emitting sources of baseload power such as nuclear in recent years, Cameco’s fortunes and its share price have revived.

The firm implemented a major restructuring in 2015 that created Alphabet as a holding company for Google (which includes Android, Chrome, and YouTube), Nest (home automation), Calico (anti-aging research), Fiber (high-speed Internet), Google Ventures (new company investments), Sidewalk Labs (city infrastructure), and Waymo (driverless cars). Other services include Google Maps, Google Play, AI, and cloud computing.