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JPMorgan Large Cap Value R5 JLVRX

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  • NAV / 1-Day Return 20.42  /  +1.59 %
  • Total Assets 3.8 Bil
  • Adj. Expense Ratio
    0.540%
  • Expense Ratio 0.540%
  • Distribution Fee Level Below Average
  • Share Class Type Retirement, Large
  • Category Large Value
  • Investment Style Large Value
  • Min. Initial Investment
  • Status Open
  • TTM Yield 1.70%
  • Turnover 143%

USD | NAV as of Mar 27, 2024 | 1-Day Return as of Mar 27, 2024, 10:19 PM GMT+0

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Morningstar’s Analysis JLVRX

Medalist rating as of .

A strong management team and sound investment process underpin JPMorgan Large Cap Value R5's Morningstar Medalist Rating of Gold.

Our research team assigns Gold ratings to strategies that they have the most conviction will outperform a relevant index, or most peers, over a market cycle on a risk-adjusted basis.

A strong management team and sound investment process underpin JPMorgan Large Cap Value R5's Morningstar Medalist Rating of Gold.

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Summary

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

The strategy's managers invest alongside shareholders, which helps it earn a High People Pillar rating. The strategy's investment approach stands out and earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a significant overweight position in liquidity exposure and volatility exposure compared with category peers. High liquidity exposure is attributed to stocks with a high trading volume, lending managers more flexibility. And high volatility exposure is rooted in stocks that have a higher standard deviation of returns. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Above Average Parent Pillar rating, and this rating is inherited from vehicles belonging to the same branding entity and is indirectly assigned by an analyst.

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Morningstar's evaluation of this fund's process aims to determine how repeatable, consistent, and reliable it is, and whether management maintains a competitive advantage.

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Process

Above Average

JPMorgan Large Cap Value Fund earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating.

The primary contributor to the rating is the fund's impressive long-term risk-adjusted performance. This can be seen in its five-year alpha calculated relative to the category index, which suggests that the managers have shown skill in their allocation of risk. The parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 57% 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 commendable 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 prefers smaller market-cap firms compared with the average fund in its peer group, the Large Value Morningstar Category. But in terms of style (value/growth) exposure, it is similar. Analyzing additional factors, this strategy has held more highly liquid stocks compared to Morningstar Category Peers in the past few years. 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, the strategy was more exposed to the Liquidity factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy also has had an overweight bias to the volatility factor over these years, meaning it has owned companies that have a higher historical standard deviation of returns. This orientation tends to pay off most prominently when markets are hot. Compared with category peers, the strategy also had more exposure to the Volatility factor in the most recent month. In addition, this strategy has not maintained a defensive tilt, demonstrated by low exposure to the quality factor. This means the fund avoids holding firms that are consistently profitable, growing, and have solid balance sheets. Such positions do not tend to provide much ballast for a portfolio. In recent months, the strategy also had less Quality 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 industrials by 2.9 percentage points in terms of assets compared with the category average, and its communication services allocation is similar to the category. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are utilities and technology; however, the allocations are similar to the category. The portfolio has 94 holdings and invests 26.4% of assets in its top 10 holdings, similar to the category average. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, looking at year-over-year movements, 143% of the fund's holdings have turned over, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

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JPMorgan Large Cap Value Fund earns a High People Pillar rating.

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People

High

The main contributor to the rating is its parent firm's five-year success ratio of 57%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and beat their respective category's median return for the period. The portfolio managers' outperformance at the funds they run, as measured by their combined three-year manager excess returns, also influences the rating. Additionally, at least one manager has invested over$ 1 million in the strategy, which aligns their interests with fundholders.

Scott Blasdell, the longest-tenured manager on the strategy, provides strong guidance, offering over 25 years of listed portfolio management experience. The average Morningstar Rating of the strategies they currently manage is 3.1 stars, indicating that their risk-adjusted returns have been in line with the category average. Despite having a small team, the two listed managers boast 13 years of listed portfolio management experience. There has been limited turnover among the portfolio-management ranks, which has provided stability for the investment strategy. Stability tends to go hand in hand with positive results. There have been no documented departures within the past five years.

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A well-resourced, thoughtful, and disciplined steward of client assets, JPMorgan Asset Management maintains an Above Average Parent rating.

Associate Director Emory Zink

Emory Zink

Associate Director

Parent

Above Average

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.

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This strategy’s Retirement share class has lapped both its peers and the category benchmark.

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Performance

Over a 10-year period, this share class outpaced the category's average return by 2.1 percentage points annualized. And it also outperformed the category index, the Russell 1000 Value Index, by an annualized 1.9 percentage points over the same period.

The risk-adjusted performance only continues to make a case for this fund. The share class had a higher Sharpe ratio, a measure of risk-adjusted return, than the index over the trailing 10-year period. However, these strong risk-adjusted results resulted in more volatility for investors. This strategy took on elevated risk, as measured by a higher standard deviation, 18.5%, compared to the benchmark's 15.3%. However, the share class proved itself ineffective as it was unable to generate alpha, over the same 10-year period, against the category group index: a benchmark that encapsulates the performance of the broader asset class.

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It is imperative to evaluate fees, which compound over time and diminish returns.

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Price

This share class is within the cheapest quintile of its Morningstar Category. Its competitive expense ratio, considered jointly with the fund’s People, Process, and Parent Pillars, indicates that this share class should be able to deliver positive alpha against its category benchmark, leading to its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Gold.

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Portfolio Holdings JLVRX

  • Current Portfolio Date
  • Equity Holdings
  • Bond Holdings
  • Other Holdings
  • % Assets in Top 10 Holdings 26.4
Top 10 Holdings
% Portfolio Weight
Market Value USD
Sector

Bank of America Corp

4.83 175.7 Mil
Financial Services

Chevron Corp

3.31 120.4 Mil
Energy

Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class B

2.84 103.3 Mil
Financial Services

Truist Financial Corp

2.58 93.8 Mil
Financial Services

Fiserv Inc

2.51 91.1 Mil
Technology

Medtronic PLC

2.22 80.7 Mil
Healthcare

AbbVie Inc

2.17 78.7 Mil
Healthcare

Citigroup Inc

2.15 78.2 Mil
Financial Services

Raymond James Financial Inc

1.93 70.2 Mil
Financial Services

Exxon Mobil Corp

1.88 68.2 Mil
Energy