JPMorgan Market Expansion Enh Eq ETF earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating.
The leading factor in the rating is its parent firm's excellent long-term risk-adjusted performance, as shown by the firm's average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 3.3 stars. The parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 55% also strengthens the process. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and beat their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. Their noteworthy success ratio suggests that the firm does well for investors and that this fund may benefit from that. Lastly, the process is limited by being an actively managed strategy. Historical data, like Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that actively managed funds have generally underperformed their passive counterparts, especially over longer time horizons.
This strategy targets deeper value plays than its peers’ average in the Small Blend Morningstar Category. But in terms of size exposure, it is similar to the average. Examining additional factor exposure, this strategy has consistently favored low-quality stocks compared with Morningstar Category peers over the past few years. Such positions do not tend to provide much ballast for a portfolio. In the latest month, the strategy was also less exposed to the Quality factor compared with Morningstar Category peers. This strategy's portfolio also has had exposure to more stocks with high dividend or buyback yields over peers in these years. High-yield stocks tend to be connected to more mature companies earning enough cash to return some to shareholders. At times, however, extreme market pressure can force them to cut their dividends, which hurts stock performance. Compared with category peers, the strategy also had more exposure to the Yield factor in the most recent month. Given the high trading volume of holdings, this fund also holds highly liquid assets. More-liquid assets are easier to buy and sell without adversely moving their prices and tend to provide some ballast during market selloffs. They also are easier to sell to meet redemptions if a host of investors decide to leave the fund in a short period of time. In recent months, however, the strategy had less Liquidity factor exposure over its peers. More information on a fund and its respective category's factor exposure can be found in the Factor Profile module within the Portfolio section.
The portfolio is overweight in consumer cyclical and real estate relative to the category average by 3.3 and 2.6 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are healthcare and technology, with healthcare underweighting the average portfolio by 4.2 percentage points of assets and technology similar to the average. The portfolio is composed of 590 holdings and is less top-heavy than peers. Specifically, 6.9% of the strategy's assets are concentrated within the top 10 fund holdings, compared to the category average's 25.8%. And finally, in terms of portfolio turnover, this portfolio turns over its holdings less quickly than peers, potentially leading to lower costs for investors and eliminating a drag on performance.