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

 The strategy's sensible investment philosophy merits a High Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained an underweight position in liquidity exposure and an overweight in quality exposure compared with category peers. Low liquidity risk exposure is attributed to stocks with a low trading volume, limiting managers' flexibility. And a high quality exposure is rooted in holding stocks with low financial leverage and strong returns on equity. The strategy’s management team earns an Above Average People Pillar rating. 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.

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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 MSCI Financials 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. Noteworthy 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 process was successful over that period. The parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 64% supports 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 relatively high success ratio suggests that this firm does well for investors and that this fund may benefit from that.

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 MSCI USA IMI Financials 25/50 Index.  The fund invests at least 80% of assets in securities included in the fund's underlying index. The fund's underlying index is the MSCI USA IMI Financials 25/50 Index, and which represents the performance of the financial sector in the U.S. equity market. It may or may not hold all of the securities in the MSCI USA IMI Financials 25/50 Index. The fund is non-diversified. 

 The portfolio is overweight in financial services by 10.7 percentage points in terms of assets compared with the category average, and its real estate allocation is similar to the category. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are consumer cyclical and healthcare; however, the allocations are similar to the category. The strategy owns 413 securities and is less top-heavy than peers. Specifically, 44.4% of the portfolio's assets are concentrated within the top 10 fund holdings, as opposed to the typical peer's 46.6%. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, looking at year-over-year movements, 28% of the fund's holdings have turned over, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

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Fidelity MSCI Financials ETF benefits considerably from its team, earning it an Above Average People Pillar rating. There are three managers listed on the fund: Paul Whitehead, Jennifer Hsui, Peter Sietsema. The team is well equipped, with an average of 13 years of portfolio management experience. Together, they manage a total of 29 strategies, with a Silver 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.

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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.

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Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF

FNCL tracks a market-cap-weighted index of US financial companies across the entire market-cap spectrum.

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