Strength in Invesco DW Developed Markets Momt ETF's People Pillar is partially offset by an Average Process Pillar rating, leading to a Morningstar Medalist Rating of Neutral. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the second-cheapest fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy gets an Average Process Pillar. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a significant overweight position in momentum exposure and quality exposure compared with category peers. Momentum exposure is attributed to holding stocks currently on a winning streak and selling those that are on a downtrend. And a high quality exposure is rooted in holding stocks that are consistently profitable, growing, and have solid balance sheets. The strategy’s management team earns an Above Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an 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. Invesco DW Developed Markets Momt ETF earns an Average Process Pillar rating. 

The main 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. Strong risk-adjusted performance also influences the rating. This can be seen in the fund's five-year alpha calculated relative to the category index, which suggests that the managers have shown skill in their allocation of risk. Lastly, the process is limited by the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 42%. 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 subpar success ratio suggests that the firm could do better across its fund lineup.

 This strategy tends to pick smaller market-cap firms compared with the average fund in its peer group, the Foreign Large Growth Morningstar Category.  But in terms of investment style, it is on par with peers. Analyzing additional factors, this strategy has consistently had exposure to high-momentum stocks compared with Morningstar Category peers over the past few years. Momentum approaches bet that rising stocks will continue to rise and that lagging stocks will continue to lag. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Momentum factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy also has had a defensive tilt, with exposure to higher-quality stocks compared with peers in recent years. This means that the fund holds companies that are profitable, growing, and have solid balance sheets. 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, however, the strategy had less Quality factor exposure in the latest month. Additionally, this strategy has tilted toward illiquid stocks during these years, evidenced by holding companies with relatively lower trading volumes than peers. 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. In recent months, the strategy also had less Liquidity 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 industrials by 18.7 percentage points in terms of assets compared with the category average, and its utilities allocation is similar to the category. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are consumer cyclical and healthcare, underweight the average by 8.1 and 8.0 percentage points of assets, respectively. The portfolio is composed of 108 holdings and is relatively top-heavy. Of the strategy's assets, 26.2% are concentrated within the top 10 holdings, as opposed to the category’s 17.8% average. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, on a year-over-year basis, 144% of the fund's holdings have changed, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

Average

Process

Invesco DW Developed Markets Momt ETF's strong equity team drives the strategy's Above Average People Pillar rating. There are four managers listed on the fund: Michael Jeanette, Peter Hubbard, Tony Seisser, Pratik Doshi. Experience on the team is abundant, with 12 years of average portfolio management experience. Together, they manage a total of 144 strategies, with a Bronze asset-weighted average Morningstar Medalist Rating, indicating the potential to deliver positive alpha relative to the category median in aggregate. This group has had relatively low management turnover, providing a stable environment and continuity for the strategies. 

 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

Invesco succeeds in a number of areas but also has its share of subpar offerings, along with many others that land somewhere in the middle. A mid-2023 change of CEO, from longtime chief Marty Flanagan to veteran Invesco executive Andrew Schlossberg, is noteworthy, and several other executives retired or departed in 2023. Portfolio-manager shuffles aimed at bolstering poor performers, which began under Flanagan, have continued under Schlossberg, who told Morningstar his most important aim is bolstering “investment quality.” However, major changes of direction or approach are unlikely. The firm retains a Morningstar Parent rating of Average. 
Invesco’s international-equity teams in Texas and New York remain solid. However, the extensive U.S.-equity lineup needs improvement. Fixed-income offerings run the gamut: The multisector and short-term-bond areas are good, but corporate high-yield is less impressive. The firm’s exchange-traded fund lineup includes the popular Nasdaq-focused QQQ; passive strategies make up around 37% of Invesco’s assets under management. Invesco has not been averse to trying new types of strategies, and it was among the firms that immediately launched a spot bitcoin ETF after SEC approval in early 2024.
The picture outside the United States is mixed. Fund performance has been subpar in Asia, and while the picture has brightened in the United Kingdom and Europe, that region still can’t be considered a strength.

Parent

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