Palantir Technologies leads the list of a half dozen companies that could be added to the $26 trillion Nasdaq 100 index at its annual reconstitution due to be announced on Dec. 13Stock Other candidates for inclusion at the reconstitution,

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Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy Inc. checks all the boxes for inclusion in the Nasdaq 100 Index, a development that would trigger purchases of the shares by the $451 billion worth of exchange-traded funds around the world that directly track the benchmark.

A meteoric rise in MicroStrategy's shares has made the bitcoin hoarder a likely candidate for the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index ahead of an annual reshuffle this week.

The firm gets classified as a software company due to its main business before it became the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin.