JPMorgan Realty Income ETF JPRE

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

The strategy’s management team earns a High People Pillar rating. The strategy's effective investment approach earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a significant underweight position in yield exposure and momentum exposure compared with category peers. 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 leading factor in the rating is its parent firm's superior 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 57% also influences the rating. 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, such as 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, higher-growth companies than its average peer in the Real Estate Morningstar Category. Looking at additional factor exposure, this strategy has shown a strong tendency to hold fewer stocks with high dividend or buyback yields compared with Morningstar Category peers in recent years. Returning capital to shareholders often is not the highest priority of such businesses. The shares of such companies can deliver strong returns if they fulfill their growth projections, but they also carry more risk. 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 investors tend to expect stocks that have done well recently to continue to do so in the short term. Momentum approaches can entail higher turnover and trading costs since the top stocks can often change. Similarly, in recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to the Momentum factor than peers. In addition, this strategy has an underweight bias to the volatility factor, meaning investing in stocks that have a lower standard deviation of returns. These companies have historically been a valuable ballast to steady portfolio returns during market downturns. In recent months, the strategy also had less Volatility factor exposure than 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 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 strategy owns 31 securities and is quite concentrated. In particular, 61.4% of the portfolio's assets are housed within the top 10 holdings, as opposed to the typical peer's 57.5%. And finally, 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, boasts over 25 years of listed portfolio management experience. Although the team is small, it is a solid supporting cast. Together, the three listed managers boast more than an average of 18 years of listed portfolio management experience. The highest personal investment in the fund by any of its managers is between$ 500,000 and$ 1 million. That's on the low side--it would need to be more than$ 1 million for us to see the investment as sufficient to promote the strong alignment of their interests with the strategy'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 lands in the cheapest quintile of its Morningstar Category. Its affordable fee, taken together with the fund’s People, Process, and Parent Pillars, indicates that this share class can deliver positive alpha against its category benchmark, explaining its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Gold.