ETF of the Week: Pacer US Money Cows 100 ETF (COWZ)

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ETF of the Week: Pacer US Money Cows 100 ETF (COWZ)

ETF Tendencies CEO Tom Lydon mentioned the Pacer US Money


ETF Tendencies CEO Tom Lydon mentioned the Pacer US Money Cows 100 ETF (COWZ) on this week’s “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe on the MoneyLife Present.

A method-driven ETF that goals to supply capital appreciation over time by screening the Russell 1000 for the highest 100 corporations based mostly on free money circulate yield.

Regardless of the uncertainty, you’ll be able to nonetheless discover worth if you happen to use the precise method. Value investing doesn’t imply an investor has to surrender on revolutionary corporations. For instance, 35% of Russell 1000 know-how corporations now present a price-to-earnings ratio under market worth. Value investing can be about common rebalancing to stick to a rules-based funding methodology to focus on the perfect worth available in the market place.

COWZ has benefited from a rules-based method to worth investing. Because the restoration from March 2009 when the Russell 1000’s P/E was round 11, the value to earnings ratio has expanded 93.50% within the Russell 1000. By rebalancing, the Pacer U.S. Money Cows 100 Index has maintained P/E’s at decrease valuations whereas providing larger capital appreciation.

This kind of worth play supplies a really cheaply discounted alternative for long-term traders. The Pacer U.S. Money Cows 100 Index reveals a -50.55% low cost to the Russell 1000 Index, in comparison with its historic common of -32.79%. Moreover, the Index even trades at a -40.80% low cost to the Russell 1000 Worth Index, in comparison with its historic common of -22.25%.

COWZ has additionally confirmed continued outperformance in opposition to the Russell 1000 Worth benchmark and enticing valuations on free money circulate yield and P/E ratio.

The COWZ indexing methodology

COWZ is an goal rules-based methodology that makes use of a top quality display to pick the highest corporations within the index universe. The underlying index selects corporations from the Russell 1000 Index and screens these based mostly on common projected free money flows and earnings over every of the subsequent two fiscal years, excluding monetary corporations apart from actual property funding trusts.

Element corporations are ranked by free money circulate yield for the trailing twelve-month interval. Equity securities of 100 corporations with the very best free money circulate yield are included within the underlying index. Holdings are additionally weighed in proportion to their trailing twelve-month free money circulate with a capped 2% of the burden of the index for any particular person firm.

The result’s an indexing methodology that has supplied excessive free money circulate yields, low price-to-earnings ratios, improved upside seize ratios, and decrease draw back seize ratios, producing an funding technique with enhanced long-term risk-adjusted returns. As of the tip of June 2020, the Pacer U.S. Money Cows 100 Index confirmed an 8.67 free money circulate yield, 11.57 P/E, 116.38 upside seize ratio to the Russell 1000 Index, and a 95.82 draw back seize ratio to the Russell 1000. Compared, the Russell 1000 had a free money circulate yield of three.35 and a P/E of 23.04.

What’s Free Money Move?

Free money circulate is the money left over after an organization has paid bills, curiosity, taxes, and long-term investments. It’s used to purchase again shares, pay dividends, or take part in mergers and acquisitions. The flexibility to generate a excessive free money circulate yield signifies that an organization is producing more money than it must run the enterprise, which might then be invested in progress alternatives.

Free money circulate producing corporations usually have three defining traits: productive, dependable, and self-sufficient. The businesses generate more money circulate then they spend, which permits them to develop with out exterior financing. 

The free money circulate is a sturdy measure of profitability than earnings topic to manipulation and accounting assumptions. Lastly, as the businesses are much less reliant on capital markets for financing, they gained’t dilute their issued firm shares.

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