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Technology shares, explained

'Technology' isn't one business. It spans companies that design chips, rent out computing power, write software you pay for monthly, make phones, or run the websites you use every day - and their fortunes don't all move together.

Tech has led the market for much of the past decade, which also means high hopes are often already priced in - a risk of its own. Being in a fast-growing sector is context to understand, not a verdict; each name below links to its plain-English explainer.

Why should I care?

Tech is the sector most likely to be over-hyped and over-owned - understanding what sits under the label helps you tell a real business from a story, and see how much future growth you're already paying for.

How this list is put together

Every company in the Almanac that reports itself in the Technology sector, listed A to Z. The sector label is the company's own classification, not ours, and it is a broad one.

Of the 130 names here, 61 currently pay a dividend

47%53%

47% pay one53% do not

This is what the group looks like as a whole. Paying a dividend is a choice about what to do with profit, not a mark of quality - plenty of growing companies reinvest instead, and that says something about a company's stage rather than about how good it is.

Cheap-ish & solid-23%

Cheap-ish & solid-23%

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

High-growth+175%

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Alfa Financial Software Holdings PLC

High quality-26%

Amphenol Corporation

High-growth+53%

Analog Devices, Inc.

High-growth+74%

Applied Materials, Inc.

High quality+186%

Arista Networks, Inc.

High-growth+42%

Arm Holdings plc

High-growth+94%

ASML Holding N.V.

High-growth+151%

AST SpaceMobile, Inc.

Out of favour+54%

Astera Labs, Inc.

High-growth+74%

Auction Technology Group plc

High-growth+35%

High quality-13%

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc.

Out of favour-53%

BlackBerry Limited

High-growth+149%

High-growth+37%

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Bytes Technology Group plc

High quality+16%

Out of favour-52%

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

High quality-7%

CDW Corporation

Ciena Corporation

Balanced$349.54

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cloudflare, Inc.

High-growth+50%

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Dividend payer-14%

High-growth+185%

CoreWeave, Inc.

Out of favour-30%

Corning Incorporated

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

High-growth+109%

D-Wave Quantum Inc.

Out of favour+20%

High-growth+89%

Dell Technologies

High-growth+225%

discoverIE Group plc

High quality-63%

High quality+29%

Fair Isaac Corporation

High quality-21%

Fidelity National Information Services

Dividend payer-38%

First Solar, Inc.

Cheap-ish & solid+30%

High-growth+143%

High-growth+118%

Fortive Corporation

High quality+35%

Cheap-ish & solid-18%

Cheap-ish & solid-32%

Grab Holdings Limited

Out of favour-23%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

High-growth+167%

Dividend payer+17%

Intel Corporation

High-growth$102.94

International Business Machines Corporation

Out of favour+1%

High quality-55%

Dividend payer+59%

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.

Kainos Group plc

High-growth+35%

Keysight Technologies, Inc.

High-growth+108%

KLA Corporation

High quality+121%

High-growth+208%

Leidos Holdings, Inc.

Dividend payer-19%

Lumentum Holdings Inc.

High-growth$927.03

Cheap-ish & solid+31%

Marvell Technology, Inc.

Microchip Technology Incorporated

Micron Technology

Dividend payer$975.26

Microsoft Corporation

High-growth+110%

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.

High-growth+76%

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Dividend payer+19%

NXP Semiconductors N.V.

Out of favour+16%

ON Semiconductor Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Out of favour-41%

Oxford Instruments plc

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

High-growth+130%

High-growth-10%

High quality-27%

Qnity Electronics, Inc.

Dividend payer+45%

QUALCOMM Incorporated

Rigetti Computing, Inc.

Out of favour+17%

Roper Technologies, Inc.

Dividend payer-25%

Salesforce, Inc.

High-growth$1,633.35

Seagate Technology Holdings plc

High-growth$830.17

SentinelOne, Inc.

High-growth+40%

ServiceNow, Inc.

Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

High-growth+74%

SoundHound AI, Inc.

Out of favour-45%

Out of favour-76%

Out of favour-15%

Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Out of favour-29%

Out of favour-34%

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

High-growth+76%

TE Connectivity plc

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated

High-growth$379.72

Texas Instruments Incorporated

High-growth+54%

The Sage Group plc

Out of favour-31%

Trustpilot Group plc

High-growth+25%

TT Electronics plc

High-growth+159%

Tyler Technologies, Inc.

Out of favour-46%

Uber Technologies, Inc.

High-growth+47%

Unity Software Inc.

High-growth+32%

High quality+7%

Western Digital

Dividend payer$447.18

High quality-7%

Zebra Technologies Corporation

High-growth+21%

130 names · each links to its full, plain-English explainer.

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Figures as of 2026-08-11. Data can go stale - always double-check before acting.