Fear and Greed sits at 25 — deep in extreme fear territory — as markets digest a QQQ decline of 1.38% on Friday, overnight Iran escalation, and a quarter-end repositioning cycle that has investors questioning where quality lives. The Titan 25 answers that question. All 25 names pass our full ethical compliance screen. That is not a coincidence, and it is not a rounding error. It is what happens when you apply rigorous multi-factor selection and let the methodology run without bias.

This week’s composition spans eight sectors, is led by a gold miner for the first time in a Q3 open, and carries seven information technology names through a tech selloff. Here is what the data is telling us.

The Full Titan 25 — Q3 2026 Opening List

All 25 names carry full ethical compliance status. Sector split: IT 7, Basic Materials 3, Healthcare 5, Real Estate 2, Tech 2, Communication Services 2, Industrials 2, Consumer 2.

Why a Gold Miner Leads the Titan 25

IAMGOLD (IAG) does not sit at rank one because gold happens to be in the news this week. It sits there because the multi-factor framework identified it at the intersection of breakout momentum, earnings leverage, and macro positioning weeks before this week’s catalyst cluster crystallised.

Gold above $4,100 is not a sentiment trade. It is a structural repricing of reserve asset scarcity in a world where fiscal deficits are widening, central bank demand is compounding, and geopolitical risk is re-entering pricing models that had assumed stability. When the underlying commodity makes that kind of sustained advance, junior and mid-tier miners with low all-in sustaining costs benefit disproportionately — their margins expand faster than the metal price moves.

IAMGOLD, a $9.6B producer with assets across the Americas and West Africa, is one of those leveraged expressions. Its presence at #1 reflects the framework doing what it is designed to do: surface the assets where fundamental thesis, macro alignment, and momentum converge. Buenaventura (BVN) at #10 and SSR Mining (SSRM) at #13 extend the same gold and silver exposure deeper into the list, giving the Titan 25 three distinct positions across the precious metals space as Q3 opens.

100% Ethical Compliance: You Do Not Sacrifice Returns for Ethics

The entire Titan 25 passes our ethical compliance screen this week. Every single name. That includes a gold miner sitting at number one, a semiconductor giant at number seven, a healthcare conglomerate at two, and a major real estate investment trust at five. The idea that ethical investing means accepting a narrower, lower-returning opportunity set is a myth the data keeps disproving.

Our ethical screening process applies exclusion criteria around business activities that conflict with broadly held values frameworks — not as a filter that forces the list into a corner, but as a gate that the best ideas pass through on merit. When 25 of 25 pass, it tells you the methodology is selecting from a large enough universe of quality that ethical compliance is additive rather than restrictive.

For investors who approach markets through an ethical lens, this is the validation point. You are not giving up Micron, Cisco, Alphabet, or Novartis to invest with conscience. You are owning them because the quality and momentum criteria placed them there — and they happen to clear compliance. The ethical framework does not cost you the return. In a week where the QQQ fell 1.38%, the Titan 25 composition includes three precious metals names with structural tailwinds and a broad multi-sector spread that is anything but concentrated risk.

Explore the full ethical screener to understand how compliance is determined across our universe.

Tech at 7 of 25: Concentration or Conviction?

Seven of the 25 names sit in the information technology sector. On a week where the QQQ fell 1.38% on Friday and Iran headlines injected fresh risk premium into everything cyclical and growth-oriented, that concentration warrants attention.

The critical distinction is what kind of technology these are. CSCO (Cisco, $464B) is infrastructure — network hardware and software that enterprises buy regardless of macro cycle. SNDK ($210B) is storage. GLW (Corning, $169B) is specialty glass and fibre, much of it tied to the AI infrastructure build that has been a durable demand driver. MU (Micron, $840B) reported earnings this week and remains the largest market-cap name in the list. FFIV (F5, $20.5B) is application security and multi-cloud. LRCX (Lam Research) is semiconductor equipment. NBIS (Nebius Group) is cloud AI infrastructure.

These are not the same kind of technology risk. A rate-sensitive multiple compression that hits consumer software businesses does not hit Corning’s optical fibre division in the same way. A selloff in speculative growth does not move Cisco’s enterprise renewal cycles. The concentration is sector-labelled, but the underlying revenue drivers are meaningfully diversified.

That said, 28% of the list is IT. If a macro shock drives a rotation out of the sector broadly — and with Fear and Greed at 25 that is a live scenario entering Q3 — the Titan 25 carries that exposure. The three precious metals names (IAG, BVN, SSRM) and the healthcare bloc (JNJ, NUTX, IRMD, LGND, NVS) provide the structural offset. Readers wanting to understand the full quant overlay behind these selections can review our Convergence Screener for the multi-factor logic.

This Week’s Catalyst: Micron Earnings

Micron Technology (MU) at #7 reported earnings this week, making it the highest-profile event risk name currently held inside the Titan 25. With a market cap of $840B, Micron is the largest single holding by capitalisation in the list. Memory and storage demand tied to AI infrastructure has been the dominant thesis behind the stock’s positioning, and the earnings print provided updated evidence on whether that demand cycle remains intact heading into Q3.

The Titan 25 does not change composition in response to a single earnings event unless the underlying thesis breaks. The framework is designed to hold through short-term volatility that does not alter long-term positioning logic.

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