JPMorgan Small Cap Growth Fund earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating.
The leading factor in the rating is the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 56%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and outperformed their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. The parent firm's excellent risk-adjusted performance, as shown by its average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 3.3 stars, also supports the process. 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 does not differentiate itself from its Small Growth category peers in terms of size and style exposure. Looking at additional factor exposure, this fund has constantly tilted toward stocks with higher trading volumes than its Morningstar Category Peers over the past few years. This gives the managers more flexibility during bear markets to sell without adversely affecting prices. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Liquidity factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy has also favored low-quality stocks. This means the fund avoids holding companies that are consistently profitable, growing, and have solid balance sheets. Lacking this ballast, the fund's prospects could rest on its ability to surpass peers during economic booms. Similarly, in recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to the Quality factor than peers. Additionally, the managers have consistently taken on more risk, demonstrated by higher volatility exposure than peers. Such exposure tends to pay off when markets are hot and to be costly when they are not. In this month, the strategy also had more exposure to the Volatility factor 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 technology and consumer cyclical relative to the category average by 4.6 and 3.1 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are financial services and industrials, with financial services underweighting the average portfolio by 5.5 percentage points of assets and industrials similar to the average. The portfolio is composed of 134 holdings and is diversified among those holdings. In its most recent portfolio, 17.6% of the strategy's assets were concentrated in the top 10 fund holdings, compared to the category’s 26.3% average. And finally, in terms of portfolio turnover, looking at year-over-year movements, 33% of the fund's holdings have changed, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.