 Hey guys, it's MJ the students actually and in this video. We're looking at the top 40 companies in South Africa So here they all are and we're just going to very quickly describe each one So the first three are mining companies. This one bases on platinum This is on general and this one is on gold aspen is a pharmaceutical company They make a lot of drugs especially around HIV AIDS and all those type of things Braids as you'll remember from one of the previous videos is a private equity company That is listed on the Jonesburg stock exchange and they also want to get listing on the London stock exchange But vest is a company bit of like a conglomerate. They do a whole bunch of various things like logistics They even have some financial companies as well, but yeah, they're kind of like a general all sorts PhD Billington. It's another mining company. They also have operations in Australia Barclays is a bank based in England and they've purchased apso bank here in South Africa British American tobacco is one of the biggest companies in the world And by their name, you can know that they sell cigarettes and various products like that Capco they buy property in England and they're listed here on the South African stock exchange Capitech is a new upcoming bank that is really growing quickly They're doing a lot of exciting things very innovative, but also quite small compared to the other banks in South Africa Richmont is was one of the Johan Rupert's companies. It's worth like Swiss luxury goods I think it's also in the Swiss stock exchange And I think the only company bigger than them in this sector is Louis Vuitton So they are they are huge huge huge Into properties also they're buying property in England and they listed here on the South African stock exchange Growth point they buy a wider array of properties So also in the property sector first-hand This is where you've got companies like First National Bank and and other financial companies So big financial company that one discovery is a medical aid started by actuaries and is doing very well They are pushing into general insurance and banking and are becoming quite a big force in the financial sector Investec they are an investment bank, but they also Normal banking services and they do a lot of corporate Business and finance and all that type of stuff also have a lot of operations overseas So they try to be like a big global player Kumba iron all their mining company that mines iron MMI holding the MMM stands for metropolitan and momentum. Those are two big institutional investors here in South Africa selling life insurance Then we have empty and their telecommunication company They also have businesses in Iran and Nigeria and they're one of the biggest your telecommunication companies in Africa Mr. Price sells clothes and that type of stuff Mondi is a company that deals with paper and packaging. They also have operations in Russia and the rest of Europe NASPAS is our biggest company and they start off as a media company and they purchased a Chinese company called 10 cents, which is the biggest Asian company So they have a 30% holding in 10 cents and this has shot their price through the roof if you had NASPAS You are super rich. Yeah, I think they've gone up like a thousand percent over the last few years Ned Bank The Ned in that stands for actually the Netherlands This is a bank that has its roots from from Holland but now they're all South African owned and They have like a bit of a connection with old mutual which I'll get to but net care very quickly medicine does hospital stuff All mutual and Ned Bank. They do kind of a relationship old mutual is the biggest life insurance company here in South Africa. They also have dealings in In what you call it the London stock exchange and their business is even in Mexico and all over the world So a really big company or neutral. They hire lots and lots of actuaries R&B holding and ran merchant bank again This is another investment company that invest in other financial companies ran merchant is also an investment bank And they do yeah, like I said financial stuff Renee investments and rem grow these ones are interesting This one is also listed on the Luxembourg stock exchange is the second biggest company in Luxembourg And it's kind of like a break away from Richmond I don't really understand it too much because it's kind of like a new thing But also you had in Rupert. So is rem go rem grows also you had Rupert and it's invested in a wide variety of other companies So these are like investment companies that hold a whole bunch of smaller companies Then we have standard bank as you'll see from the last video We were buying exchange traded notes from standard bank very big bank here in South Africa also has a bit of an international footprint Shop, right? This is like a grocery shop. They you know, you can buy food and groceries from them Sassel sassel is quite an interesting one. They can turn coal into oil and they're a chemical company and Job very very interesting quite correlated to the US dollar and and various oil prices then we have Sunlam, which is another big life insurance company here in South Africa and We have Tiger Brands, which makes food food products Vodacom You should know from Vodafone massive International telecommunication company and finally we have Woolworths, which is kind of like in competition to shop, right? They sold groceries to the, you know, the slightly richer people here in South Africa But that is the top 40 shares If you have any questions on any of them, feel free to leave me a comment in the comment section below and Also, let me know which ones we should buy because look we have got a demo account. We have been buying Let's actually get a quick little overview. We've only been doing this for one day So how we how we've been doing we started with a hundred thousand and look we've already made two rent We've already made two so we're doing quite nicely I did go and buy British American tobacco and empty in and one of you did recommend that we buy discovery But if you have any suggestions, let me know in the comment section below of those top 40 companies And we will add them to the portfolio. Thanks guys so much for watching and I'll see you next time for another video. Cheers