A sound investment process and strong management team underpin Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Revenue ETF's Morningstar Medalist Rating of Silver. The portfolio maintains a sizable cost advantage over competitors, priced within the lowest fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy's investment process inspires confidence and earns 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 liquidity exposure and volatility exposure compared with category peers. High liquidity exposure is attributed to stocks with a high trading volume, lending managers more flexibility. And high volatility exposure is rooted in stocks that have a higher standard deviation of returns. 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.

Analyst Rating

SYNNEX

Performance Food Group

PBF Energy

Arrow Electronics

US Foods Holding

HF Sinclair Corp

Penske Automotive Group

AutoNation

Lithia Motors

Avnet

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 Revenue ETF earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. 

The most important driver of 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 its parent firm's subpar risk-adjusted performance, as shown by the firm's average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 2.8 stars. A lower star rating suggests that the firm has struggled to outperform on a risk-adjusted basis.

 This strategy prefers smaller market-cap companies compared with the average fund in its peer group, the Mid-Cap Value Morningstar Category.  But in terms of style (value/growth) exposure, it is similar. Analyzing additional factors, the fund has held stocks with higher trading volumes compared to Morningstar Category Peers in the past few years. More-liquid assets contribute to more-flexible exit strategies without price changes and tend to be a ballast during market selloffs. For example, if the portfolio faces successive redemptions in a short period of time, it will be less likely to suffer from a significant loss. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Liquidity factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy has also exhibited a tilt toward high-volatility stocks over these years, meaning it has invested in companies that have a higher historical standard deviation of returns. This contributes to a higher-risk, higher-reward approach. Compared with category peers, the strategy also had more exposure to the Volatility factor in the most recent month. In addition, the portfolio has tended to underweight yield, as shown in its lower exposure to companies that pay dividends or buy back shares than peers over these years. Its preference for stocks with lower yields may well lead to a growthier portfolio. However, growth stocks court additional risks if their forecasts do not come to fruition and are often more volatile than companies with stable dividends. In recent months, the strategy also had less Yield 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 consumer cyclical by 13.6 percentage points in terms of assets compared with the category average, and its consumer defensive allocation is similar to the category. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are financial services and healthcare, underweight the average by 5.8 and 5.4 percentage points of assets, respectively. The portfolio has 402 holdings and invests 17.3% 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, 37% of the fund's holdings have turned over, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

Above Average

Process

Invesco’s equity team is strong compared with others in the industry, resulting in an Above Average People Pillar rating. There are four managers listed on the fund: Peter Hubbard, Tony Seisser, Michael Jeanette, Pratik Doshi. Experience on the team is abundant, with 12 years of average portfolio management experience. Together, they manage a total of 145 strategies, with a Bronze 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.

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.

Average

Parent

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