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S&P 500 Quality Leaders

Large, highly profitable US market leaders.

The highest-quality large-caps that dominate US indices. Without an official index-membership list, this collection proxies S&P 500 quality with US companies above $20bn that also post a high return on equity and strong margins, ranked by market cap.

390 stocksSorted by market capUpdated 7 Oct 2026

Why it matters

Large, highly profitable US market leaders. Benchmark collections are a clean way to compare market leaders, index heavyweights and size segments without building a screen from scratch.

What to check next

Compare sector mix, valuation, quality and risk across the group rather than assuming larger companies are automatically safer.

Main risk

This is a proxy screen, so treat the result as a starting point. Large benchmark names can become crowded, expensive or overly exposed to one macro factor despite appearing diversified at first glance.

Showing the 40 largest of 390 — sort or filter to explore the rest.

Company Market Market Cap Reward Risk Yield
NVIDIA CorporationNVDA$5.6T87450.1%
Apple Inc.AAPL$4.9T50290.3%
Alphabet Inc Class AGOOGL$4.2T63450.3%
Microsoft CorporationMSFT$3.8T66450.7%
Amazon.com IncAMZN$2.7T6345—
Taiwan Semiconductor ManufacturingTSM$2.5T82450.9%
Meta Platforms Inc.META$1.9T77560.3%
Broadcom IncAVGO$1.7T75560.8%
SK Hynix Inc. American Depositary SharesSKHY$1.4T82720.0%
Micron Technology IncMU$1.2T84720.1%
SK hynix Inc. American Depositary Shares When IssuedSKHYV$1.2T8072—
Eli Lilly and CompanyLLY$1.0T76370.6%
JPMorgan Chase & CoJPM$883.5B59501.8%
ASML Holding N.V. New York Registry SharesASML$717.2B73450.5%
Visa Inc. Class AV$677.1B65270.7%
Johnson & JohnsonJNJ$617.0B57262.0%
Tencent Holdings LtdTCTZF$595.6B45456.3%
ASML Holding NVASMLF$537.5B69450.4%
Mastercard IncMA$483.8B70290.6%
Palantir Technologies Inc.PLTR$453.6B8172—
Cisco Systems IncCSCO$442.4B56391.5%
Lam Research CorpLRCX$434.9B65720.3%
Oracle CorporationORCL$431.4B65721.5%
Applied Materials IncAMAT$428.6B61560.4%
Samsung Electronics Co LtdSSNLF$428.2B60202.4%
Roche Holding AGRHHBF$394.8B51452.0%
Caterpillar IncCAT$388.6B59450.8%
Roche Holding AG ParticipationRHHVF$386.9B52402.1%
The Coca-Cola CompanyKO$368.5B50242.4%
Procter & Gamble CompanyPG$336.6B47253.0%
LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton Société EuropéenneLVMHF$325.3B35452.0%
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA ADRLVMUY$323.9B41452.3%
GE AerospaceGE$321.2B56450.5%
Morgan StanleyMS$298.9B61552.2%
Netflix IncNFLX$279.2B6045—
Nestle SANSRGF$275.3B43362.9%
Royal Bank of CanadaRY$270.9B60483.4%
KLA CorporationKLAC$270.0B53720.4%
Texas Instruments IncorporatedTXN$268.3B50452.0%
Novartis AG ADRNVS$268.0B62283.4%

Frequently asked questions

What is the S&P 500 Quality Leaders collection?

Large, highly profitable US market leaders. It currently holds 390 stocks, each rated by Openbook's Reward and Risk scores. The highest-quality large-caps that dominate US indices.

How are S&P 500 Quality Leaders stocks selected?

Constituents are chosen by a rules-based screen over the full US common-stock universe, then ranked by market capitalisation. This is a proxy screen — see the description above for the exact criteria and its limitations.

How often is the S&P 500 Quality Leaders list updated?

It is rebuilt from live market data, so the constituents and their rankings update as prices and company fundamentals change — there is no fixed, hand-edited list.

How should I use the Reward and Risk ratings?

Openbook's Reward rating combines a stock's growth, momentum, profitability and valuation into a single 0–100 score, and the Risk rating scores financial strength, volatility and size. Use them to compare names within this theme — broadly, a higher Reward alongside a lower Risk is more attractive. They are quantitative research signals, not investment advice.

Openbook Reward and Risk ratings and factor scores are quantitative signals for research, not investment advice. Data may be delayed. Some US-listed names carry partial factor coverage.