-- Deep-dive universe (rubric v15, gate 25): the top-N eligible companies by -- market cap (descending), deterministic. The screening-flag promotion that -- gate 3 allows is handled by Python at assignment time, NOT by this SQL, so -- the SQL respects the assignment-time rule and never reads opinions. -- Null-safe: marketcap is filtered to > 0 so the SELECT market_cap column is -- never null. WITH latest AS ( SELECT ticker, marketcap FROM fundamentals.v_latest_fundamentals WHERE dimension = 'MRY' AND marketcap > 0 ), elig AS ( SELECT t.ticker AS ticker, t.name AS name, t.sector AS sector, t.scalemarketcap AS scale_marketcap, l.marketcap AS market_cap FROM fundamentals.v_companies AS t INNER JOIN latest AS l USING (ticker) WHERE t.isdelisted = 'N' AND t.scalemarketcap IN ('4 - Mid', '5 - Large', '6 - Mega') ) SELECT ticker, name, sector, scale_marketcap, market_cap FROM elig ORDER BY market_cap DESC, ticker LIMIT {limit:UInt32}