Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc. manages investments for public companies, mainly by investing in large-cap stocks across diversified sectors of the US public equity markets. They use a bottom-up stock picking approach with the help of technical, fundamental, and quantitative analysis, focusing on various factors like financial strength, capital allocation, market competition, and profitability. The investment manager is based in Baltimore, Maryland and was previously known as The Adams Express Company, having been founded in 1840.