A sound investment process and strong management team underpin Fidelity® Cloud Computing ETF's Morningstar Medalist Rating of Gold. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the cheapest fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy's effective investment philosophy supports a High Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained an overweight in liquidity exposure and an underweight in momentum exposure compared with category peers. High liquidity exposure is attributed to stocks with a high trading volume, lending managers more flexibility. 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 team managing the passive product drives the strategy's Above Average People Pillar rating. The strategy is part of a first-rate parent that has a favorable lineup success ratio and overall reasonable fees. These attributes support its Above Average Parent Pillar rating.

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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. Fidelity® Cloud Computing ETF earns a High Process Pillar rating. The most significant contributor to 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. The parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 64% 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 commendable success ratio suggests that the firm does well for investors and that this fund may benefit from that. The scale of the portfolio management team supports the process as well. With five portfolio manager at the helm, the fund is well-staffed.

The investment strategy as stated in the fund's prospectus is:  The investment seeks to provide investment returns that correspond, before fees and expenses, generally to the performance of the Fidelity Cloud Computing Index℠.  The fund normally invests at least 80% of its assets in securities included in the index and in depositary receipts representing securities included in the index. The index is designed to reflect the performance of a global universe of companies across the market capitalization spectrum that provide products or services enabling the increased adoption of cloud computing, and characterized by the delivery of computing services over the internet. The fund is non-diversified. 

 The portfolio is overweight in technology and real estate relative to the category average by 13.7 and 6.1 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are communication services and consumer cyclical, underweight the average by 6.6 and 5.5 percentage points of assets, respectively. The portfolio is composed of 57 holdings and its assets are more dispersed than peers in the category. In particular, 36.1% of the strategy's assets are concentrated in the top 10 fund holdings, compared to the category’s 48.5% average.

High

Process

Fidelity’s team is strong compared with others in the industry, resulting in an Above Average People Pillar rating. There’s a deep bench of five managers listed on the fund. Experience on the team is abundant, with 11 years of average portfolio management experience. Together, they manage a total of 60 strategies, with a Gold asset-weighted average Morningstar Medalist Rating, demonstrating their potential to deliver positive alpha relative to the category median in aggregate.  

 Note: This People Pillar rating is indirectly assigned by an analyst. Morningstar analysts evaluate the People Pillar for passive products at the brand level and may also differentiate by asset class. There is at least one other passive strategy at the firm that is covered by a Morningstar analyst, so the People Pillar rating of the fund is inherited from the rating that the Morningstar analyst assigned to investment vehicles under the same brand name.

Above Average

People

Fidelity earns an Above Average Parent rating because of its ability to stay ahead of its competition.

The firm's successful stock-picking mutual funds fueled its rise to prominence, and it has adapted well to investor preferences that have shifted markedly over the past two decades. Index funds and exchange-traded funds have garnered most of the industry's flows as money has gushed from actively managed products—Fidelity's included. Yet overall, the asset-management division has continued to achieve positive organic growth by introducing or maintaining aggressive pricing on its own suite of passively managed funds and expanding its menu of client-demanded investment structures, such as managed accounts and collective investment trusts. These moves are made possible by the firm's strong distribution network, scale, established brand, and willingness to tolerate losses on some products in pursuit of broader strategic objectives.

The firm is not without blemishes. It could stand to rationalize its lineup of active equity funds and do better to maintain continuity in an equity fund's portfolio construction as the fund's leadership inevitably changes.

Overall, the firm has served its funds' investors well. It boasts a topnotch fixed-income division and remains home to some of the industry's most talented equity managers and a strong team supporting its well-run target-date series.

Parent

Fidelity Cloud Computing ETF

FCLD tracks a market-cap-weighted index of global companies that provide products and/or services enabling increased usage of cloud computing.

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