Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Growth ETF earns a Morningstar Medalist Rating of Negative with strength in areas such as People offset by weaker spots such as Process. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the least expensive fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy earns a Low 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 liquidity exposure compared with category peers. High yield exposure is attributed to holding more stocks with high dividend or buyback yields. And a high liquidity exposure is rooted in stocks with higher trading volumes, lending managers more flexibility. 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 S&P MidCap 400® Pure Growth ETF earns a Low Process Pillar rating. 

The most notable detractor from the rating is the fund's unimpressive long-term risk-adjusted performance. This can be seen in its five-year alpha calculated relative to the category index, which suggests that the process has struggled over that period. 

 This strategy tends to hold smaller, more value-oriented companies than its average peer in the Mid-Cap Growth Morningstar Category. Analyzing additional factors, 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. 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 has also been exposed to liquid stocks during these years. More-liquid assets are easier to buy and sell without adversely moving their prices and tend to provide some ballast during market selloffs. They also are easier to sell to meet redemptions if a host of investors decide to leave the fund in a short period of time. Compared with category peers, the strategy also had more exposure to the Liquidity factor in the most recent month. Additionally, the strategy has constantly maintained a defensive tilt, with exposure to high-quality stocks. Though it may trail peers during an economic boom, this orientation contributes to helping it weather periods of economic stress better. In this month, the strategy also had more exposure to the Quality factor over 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 energy and consumer cyclical relative to the category average by 13.7 and 6.9 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are technology and healthcare, underweight the average by 11.7 and 10.8 percentage points of assets, respectively. The portfolio is composed of 83 holdings and invests 24.9% of assets in its top 10 holdings, similar to the category average. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, looking at year-over-year movements, 81% of the fund's holdings have changed, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

Process

Invesco S&P MidCap 400® Pure Growth ETF benefits considerably from its equity team, earning it an Above Average People Pillar rating. There are four managers listed on the fund: Michael Jeanette, Peter Hubbard, Tony Seisser, Pratik Doshi. The team is well equipped, with an average of 12 years of 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 been working together for a while and has been successful in retaining talent compared to peers, with no departures in the last five years.  

 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

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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.

Average

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