Mighty METS: Who's hitting it out of the park?

Australian-listed mining equipment, technology and services (METS) companies are still giving investors more - much more - to get excited about through their exposure to mine production growth, and increased exploration spending, than their peers in North America and other parts of the world. The top-10 global METS equities for the past 12 months are all ASX-listed companies.

They are a mix of mainly contract miners and drillers, and engineers with primary exposure to brownfields capital expenditure (see table below).