ALPS International Sector Div 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. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a considerable overweight position in yield exposure and has an overweight in quality exposure compared with category peers. High yield exposure is attributed to holding high dividend-paying or buyback stocks, and is suitable for income seekers outside of fixed-income. And a high quality exposure is rooted in holding stocks with low financial leverage and strong returns on equity. Even though the strategy's parent organization has some investor-friendly attributes like portfolio managers who invest a sizeable amount in their strategy, a bench of limited-tenure portfolio managers holds it back. As a result, the firm obtains 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 benchmark on a risk-adjusted basis over the long term. ALPS International Sector Div Dogs ETF earns a High Process Pillar rating. 

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

 This strategy leans toward larger, more value-oriented companies than its average peer in the Foreign Large Value 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. Stocks with high yields can be more stable, mature companies, but at times extreme market pressure or fundamental deterioration may prompt them to cut their dividends, which tends to hurt stock performance. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Yield factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy also has had a position favoring high-quality stocks in recent years, which could contribute to higher downside risk protection. Though it may trail peers during an economic boom, this orientation contributes to helping it weather periods of economic stress better. Compared with category peers, the strategy also had more exposure to the Quality factor in the most recent month. Moreover, this strategy has been underweighting momentum stocks during these years. Momentum strategies typically bet that stocks that have recently outperformed will continue to do so, and those that have recently underperformed will keep lagging. Avoiding the former and buying the latter could indicate that managers are averse to chasing momentum. 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 communication services relative to the category average by 5.6 and 4.4 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are financial services and industrials, underweight the average by 11.6 and 5.1 percentage points of assets, respectively. The portfolio is positioned across 56 holdings and is quite concentrated. More concretely, 22.5% of the strategy's assets are housed within the top 10 holdings, versus the typical peer's 13.9%. And finally, in terms of portfolio turnover, looking at year-over-year movements, 62% of the fund's holdings have turned over, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

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ALPS’s team receives a Below Average People Pillar rating. The team benefits from 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 limited by the parent firm's five-year success ratio of 42%. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and beat their respective category's median return for the period. The parent's relatively low success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup. The parent firm's five-year retention rate of 62% also limits the team.

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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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