ALPS Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs ETF earns a Morningstar Medalist Rating of Neutral with strength in areas such as Process offset by weaker spots such as People. The portfolio maintains a sizable cost advantage over competitors, priced within the least expensive fee quintile among peers.  

 The team managing the passive strategy earns a Below Average People Pillar. The strategy's sensible investment philosophy earns a High Process Pillar rating.  High yield exposure is attributed to holding more stocks with high dividend or buyback yields. And a low liquidity exposure is rooted in stocks with lower trading volumes, limiting managers' flexibility. Although this strategy's parent firm still has a way to go to be a high-quality steward, it has bright spots like significant personal investments from managers but could focus on a relatively inexperienced portfolio management team. As a result, the firm earns a Low Parent Pillar.

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Morningstar's evaluation of this security's process aims to determine the likelihood that it will outperform its Morningstar Category index on a risk-adjusted basis over the long term. ALPS Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs ETF earns a High Process Pillar rating. 

The leading factor in the rating is that this fund tracks an index. Historical data, like Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that passively managed funds have generally outperformed their active counterparts, especially over longer time horizons. Respectable risk-adjusted performance also influences the rating. This can be seen in the fund's five-year alpha calculated relative to the category average, which suggests that the managers have shown skill in their allocation of risk. 

 This strategy tends to hold smaller, more undervalued companies than its average peer in the Diversified Emerging Mkts Morningstar Category. Examining additional factor exposure, the managers have consistently overweighted yield-paying companies compared with Morningstar Category peers in recent years, shown by the portfolio's high exposure to stocks paying dividends or buying back shares. High-yield stocks tend to be associated with more mature, profitable businesses that can grow as well as provide a stream of income. Such stocks could suffer, however, if setbacks force them to cut their dividends. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Yield factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy also has held illiquid stocks, evidenced by holdings' lower trading volume in recent years over peers, resulting in high liquidity risk exposure. Less-liquid stocks might offer strong returns to compensate for their risks, but they can be harder and more expensive to trade in bear markets. Similarly, in recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to the Liquidity factor than peers. Additionally, the strategy has demonstrated a contrarian approach with relatively low exposure to momentum stocks during these 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. In recent months, the strategy also had less Momentum 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 utilities and energy relative to the category average by 7.7 and 5.8 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are technology and financial services, underweight the average by 16.7 and 11.5 percentage points of assets, respectively. The portfolio is composed of 54 holdings and is about as top-heavy as the category average, with 26.7% of assets in the top 10 holdings. And finally, in terms of portfolio turnover, on a year-over-year basis, 85% of the fund's holdings have turned over, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

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Process

ALPS’s team earns a Below Average People Pillar rating. The team is strengthened by the combined average three-year excess return of each manager, which suggests that the funds they manage have surpassed an average manager. However, the rating is weakened by the parent firm's five-year success ratio of 42%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and outperformed their respective category's median return for the period. The parent's modest success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup. The parent firm's five-year retention rate of 62% also holds the team back.

Below Average

People

ALPS has a ways to go to become an industry-standard steward, resulting in a Low Parent Pillar rating. Despite the negative rating, an area of strength of the firm is manager investment.  Over 34% of the firm's assets are covered by invested managers, in an effort to align portfolio manager and shareholder interests. With an average asset-weighted tenure of eight years among the longest-tenured managers at ALPS, the firm is on par with peers. Seasoned teams tend to have more experience to draw upon should they need to weather turbulent market conditions. The firm charges fees on its open-end and exchange-traded funds that are on par with category peers. On average, fund fees on its products fall in the middle quintile, giving it neither an advantage nor disadvantage compared with the competition.

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EDOG tracks an equal-weighted index that selects five companies with the highest dividend yield in each of the ten GICS sectors excluding real estate.

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The ALPS Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (EDOG) outperformed broader global equities markets last week. The U.S. dollar's weakening amid optimism around China's less restrictive COVID-19 measures has been supportive for EDOG.

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The ALPS Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (EDOG) gained 0.45% in August, propelled by high energy prices continuing to sustain cyclical energy company profit margins. Broad emerging markets paused their run in August after rebounding in July, weighing sustained inflation and rising fears of a global recession, ALPS wrote in a recent insight.

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DENVER, Dec. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund) (NYSE: SDOG), the ALPS International Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (NYSE: IDOG) and the ALPS Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (NYSE: EDOG) (the "Funds") declared their fourth quarter 2021 distributions on December 21, 2021 in the amounts of $0.5213 for SDOG, $0.1137 for IDOG and $0.14327 for EDOG. The dividends are payable on December 29, 2021 to shareholders of record on December 23, 2021.

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DENVER, Sept. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund) (NYSE: SDOG), the ALPS International Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (NYSE: IDOG) and the ALPS Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (NYSE: EDOG) (the "Funds") declared their third quarter 2021 distributions on September 22, 2021 in the amounts of $0.4841 for SDOG, $0.2972 for IDOG and $0.3314 for EDOG.

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