JPMorgan Realty Income ETF JPRE

The portfolio maintains a sizable cost advantage over competitors, priced within the lowest fee quintile among peers.

The strategy’s management team earns a High People Pillar rating. The strategy's sensible investment philosophy earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. Low yield exposure is attributed to holding fewer stocks with high dividend or buyback yields -- instead, typically holding companies with a stronger focus on growth opposed to returning capital. And low momentum exposure is rooted in holding stocks that are not currently on a winning streak and instead holding those that managers believe are undervalued. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Above Average Parent Pillar rating. People Pillar and Parent Pillar ratings for this strategy are indirectly assigned by a Morningstar analyst rather than algorithmically derived. Please see the notes following each pillar section for more details. The details of assigning methods can be found in each pillar section.

JPMorgan Realty Income ETF earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating.

The main contributor to the rating is its parent firm's impressive 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 respectable 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 leans toward smaller, more growth-oriented companies compared with its average peer in the Real Estate Morningstar Category. Analyzing additional factors, this strategy has exhibited a strong tendency to hold fewer stocks with high dividend or buyback yields compared with Morningstar Category peers in recent years. Its preference for stocks with lower yields may well lead to a growthier portfolio. However, growth stocks court additional risks if their forecasts do not come to fruition and are often more volatile than companies with stable dividends. In the latest month, the strategy was also less exposed to the Yield factor compared with Morningstar Category peers. This strategy has had lower exposure to momentum stocks over peers in recent years. Momentum tends to be a powerful force in asset markets, as stocks that have done well recently usually continue to do so in the short term. As top performers change, this can sometimes be hard to capture without higher trading costs. Similarly, in recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to the Momentum factor than peers. Additionally, this strategy has exhibited a tilt toward low-volatility stocks in these years, meaning companies with a lower historical standard deviation of returns over its peers. These companies have historically been a valuable ballast to steady portfolio returns during market downturns. Nevertheless, the fund's Volatility exposure was in line with peers in the latest month. 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 real estate by 3.9 percentage points in terms of assets compared with the category average, and its healthcare allocation is similar to the category. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are consumer cyclical and financial services; however, the allocations are similar to the category. The portfolio is positioned across 31 holdings and is quite concentrated. In particular, 64.7% of the portfolio's assets are housed within the top 10 holdings, compared to the typical peer's 57.7%. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, this fund trades more frequently than its average peer, potentially racking up additional expenses for investors and creating a drag on performance.

Scott Blasdell, the longest-tenured manager on the strategy, provides strong guidance, bringing forward over 25 years of listed portfolio management experience. Scott Blasdell has an experienced backdrop of support. The three listed managers boast 18 years of average listed portfolio management experience. The management team is invested in the fund, but the maximum investment by any manager is between$ 500,000 and$ 1 million. An investment of more than$ 1 million would be ideal to align managers' interests with those of the fund's investors.

Note: The People Pillar rating is indirectly assigned by an analyst. The longest-tenured manager of the fund also manages a different product rated by an analyst. Their analyst-assigned People Pillar rating is combined here with the People scores (algorithmic or analyst-assigned) for the fund’s other managers on a tenure-weighted basis.

As of 2022, this investment stalwart manages more than USD 2.5 trillion in AUM. Composed of various global cohorts and diverse asset classes, the firm has more tightly integrated its capabilities in recent years, notably through the development of proprietary analytical and risk systems. Investment teams are robustly staffed and helmed by seasoned contributors. The firm’s strategies tend to produce reliable portfolios, and several flagship offerings are Morningstar Medalists. Manager incentives align with fundholders'; compensation reflects longer-term performance factors, and portfolio managers invest in the firm’s strategies as part of their compensation plans.

The firm’s funds tend to be well-priced, but they aren’t as competitive as many highly regarded peers of similar scale. Recent product launches include thematic and single-country strategies, both of which carry the potential for volatile performance and flows, along with misuse by investors. The firm remains intrepid when it comes to developing an environmental, social, and governance-focused framework and continues to move into other areas such as direct indexing through its 55iP acquisition and China through its joint venture, but these complicated initiatives take time to assess any real and lasting effect.

This share class’ quantitatively driven Performance content was not generated because of insufficient data. To generate individualized content, the Medalist Rating quantitative analysis requires sufficient data to generate its framework of “ mental models ” designed to mimic content written by analysts.

Past performance is not predictive of future results, and, therefore, Morningstar Medalist Ratings are not anchored on short-term results and instead focus on long-term risk and return patterns. Performance receives no explicit weighting in Morningstar’s analysis but is referenced as a part of the People, Parent, and Process evaluations.

This share class sits in the cheapest quintile of its Morningstar Category. Its low fee, considered jointly with the fund’s People, Process, and Parent Pillars, indicates that this share class has high potential to deliver positive alpha compared with its category benchmark, leading to its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Gold.