ALPS International Sector Div Dogs ETF retains its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Bronze. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the cheapest fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy's effective investment philosophy supports an Above Average Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a significant overweight position in yield exposure and quality exposure compared with category peers. High yield exposure is attributed to holding more stocks with high dividend or buyback yields. And a high quality exposure is rooted in holding stocks with low financial leverage and strong returns on equity. The team managing this passive strategy earns a Below Average People Pillar rating. Even though the strategy's parent organization has some investor-friendly attributes like considerable personal investments from managers, a cohort of unseasoned 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 an Above Average Process Pillar rating. 

The main contributor to the rating is the fund's impressive 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. Lastly, the process is limited by the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 43%. 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's modest success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup.

 This strategy tends to hold larger, more undervalued companies than its average peer in the Foreign Large Value Morningstar Category. Analyzing additional factors, this strategy has continually displayed high-yield exposure compared with Morningstar Category peers during recent years, holding more companies returning cash to shareholders via dividends or buybacks. High-yield stocks tend to be connected to more mature companies earning enough cash to return some to shareholders. At times, however, extreme market pressure can force them to cut their dividends, which hurts 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 tilted in favor of high-quality stocks, those that have demonstrated low financial leverage and solid return on equity, during these years. This means the fund holds consistently profitable, growing companies with solid balance sheets that may help it weather downturns better than Morningstar Category peers. Compared with category peers, the strategy also had more exposure to the Quality factor in the most recent month. Additionally, the strategy had more exposure to high-momentum stocks compared with Morningstar Category peers in recent months. Momentum is based on the premise that stocks that have recently outperformed will continue to outperform, and those that have underperformed will stay behind.  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 5.9 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 3.3 percentage points of assets, respectively. The portfolio is composed of 53 holdings and is quite concentrated. Specifically, 22.1% of the strategy's assets are housed within the top 10 holdings, as opposed to the typical peer's 13.3%. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, this portfolio's holdings turn over more often than comparable products in its peer group, possibly resulting in higher costs for investors and a drag on performance.

Above Average

Process

ALPS’s team earns a Below Average People Pillar rating. The team is bolstered by the portfolio managers' outperformance of peers at the funds they run, as measured by their combined three-year manager excess returns. However, the rating is weakened by the parent firm's five-year retention rate of 61%, which suggests it could do more to hold onto its portfolio managers. The parent firm's five-year success ratio of 51% also limits the team. 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 relatively low success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup.

Below Average

People

ALPS fails to meet industry-standard stewardship qualities, culminating in a Low Parent Pillar rating. Aside from the overall view, the firm's portfolio managers have worked to align their interests with investors' by taking a personal stake and investing alongside them. Almost 34% of the firm’s assets are covered by invested managers. With an average tenure of seven 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, fees on its funds are within the middle quintile, giving it neither an advantage nor disadvantage compared with the competition.

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