The idea of buying quality companies at a discount to what they are worth is no revelation. Keeping an eye on quality can help investors screen out stocks that might be cheap for very good reasons, and being conscientious about valuations may prevent them from overpaying for quality franchises.
Within the realm of U.S. equity exchange-traded funds, there are eight that appear to balance this dual mandate. These funds, featured in Exhibit 1, rank in the cheaper (as measured by their price/earnings ratios) and more profitable (as measured by their return on assets) halves of the universe of broad U.S. stock ETFs. Additionally, each has accumulated over five years of track record and has an expense ratio less than or equal to 0.25%.
It s been difficult for actively managed U.S. and international-equity funds to beat their benchmarks. According to Morningstar s Active/Passive Barometer, only 48% of active U.S. stock funds survived and outperformed their average passive peer over the 12-month period ended June 2019, and only 23% of all active funds beat their passive benchmark over a 10-year period. As Morningstar director of global ETF research Ben Johnson notes in the report, foreign-stock and bond funds tend to have higher long-term success rates, while U.S. large-cap funds report the lowest success rates.
To identify funds that not only beat their benchmark but hit it out of the park, we looked for U.S. and international-equity funds that outperformed their benchmarks over the five- and 10-year periods ended in December 2020. Funds had to have a 10-year history and current assets under management of at least $100 million.
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U.S. equity markets kept climbing in 2020’s fourth quarter, making for a strong close to a crazy year. The passage of a second coronavirus relief bill and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines strengthened expectations in a swift bounceback from the pandemic, boosting the S&P 500 index to 33 all-time highs. It ended the year at a record 3,756, up 12.2% in the final quarter and nearly 20% for the year. From the index’s March low, it gained 65.2%. Growth funds across the market-cap spectrum posted the biggest gains, while value continued to underperform.
Morningstar updated Analyst Ratings for 777 fund share classes, exchange-traded funds, and separately managed accounts/collective investment trusts in December 2020. Of these, 428 maintained their previous rating, 47 were downgrades, 33 were upgrades, 146 were new to coverage, and 123 came Under Review because of material changes such as manager departures.
Sifting out multiple share classes and vehicles, Morningstar rated 221 unique strategies in December 2020. Of these, 52 received a rating for the first time, with the rest having at least one investment vehicle type that a Morningstar analyst previously covered. Below are some highlights of the upgrades, downgrades, and ratings for newly covered strategies.
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