Facebook, PayPal and Uber are the leading companies in the Social Media theme, according to the latest Thematic Scorecard for the ecommerce sector from GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

The three companies all gained the highest Thematic score (5 out of 5) in GlobalData’s Thematic scorecard for the ecommerce sector. A Thematic score of 5 out of 5 indicates that this theme will significantly improve their future performance.

Also identified as dominant players in this theme are China’s Tencent, Sina, Sohu, and Momo, South Korea’s Naver and Kakao, Japan’s Start Today, and Airbnb.

GlobalData’s Thematic Scorecard ranks companies within a sector on the basis of overall leadership in the 10 themes that matter most to their industry, generating a leading indicator of future earnings growth.