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About iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF
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Inception date
Jul 18, 2013
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
Seeking to capture higher quality stocks within GICS sectors, QUAL make its selections from the large- and mid-cap MSCI universe by considering quality factors: high ROE, low debt/equity, and stable earnings growth. The fund changed its exposure following a September 1, 2015 index change, foregoing some of its earlier sector biases in favor of an underlying index with sector weighting that looks more like our benchmark, while applying quality factors to the stocks within those sectors. The new portfolio is expected to take less active risk (compared with the old index) relative to pure cap-weighted exposure. Historically QUAL has tracked its index well. QUAL has had strong institutional interest.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Technology Services
Electronic Technology
Finance
Stocks99.85%
Technology Services24.98%
Electronic Technology17.57%
Finance16.34%
Health Technology7.95%
Consumer Non-Durables6.28%
Retail Trade6.15%
Producer Manufacturing5.39%
Utilities2.41%
Process Industries2.15%
Consumer Services1.88%
Health Services1.84%
Energy Minerals1.72%
Consumer Durables1.56%
Distribution Services1.02%
Industrial Services0.89%
Commercial Services0.74%
Miscellaneous0.60%
Transportation0.33%
Non-Energy Minerals0.05%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.15%
Mutual fund0.13%
Cash0.02%
Stock breakdown by region
North America96.23%
Europe3.77%
Latin America0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
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Dividends
Dividend payout history