The Tech 100 ranks Canada's largest-publicly traded technology companies by market cap. In our estimation, these are the firms that generate the greatest IT value.

Besides market cap, we also rank by performance (net sales, sales growth, and EPS) data and 1-year total return figures to provide a more rounded perspective of the important contribution these firms make to Canada's tech sector.

The Tech 100 ranking is updated quarterly.

Selection criteria
The key criteria for inclusion in the Tech 100 were:

• headquartered in Canada
• conducts own meaningful advanced technology R&D
• develops advanced hardware or software technology of its own for an end market
• provides advanced IT services or manufactures advanced IT products
• business model rests on a value proposition of in-house advanced technological knowledge and ingenuity

How to use these tables

Companies can be ranked according to each variable simply by clicking on the column header. To reverse the order, simply click the column header again.

To load a profile page with all of our information about that stock, click the company name.

The performance and return tables can be emailed, printed or downloaded into a spreadsheet.

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Read our complete Methodology.