The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RSPM) made its debut on 11/01/2006, and is a smart beta exchange traded fund that provides broad exposure to the Materials ETFs category of the market.
The ETF industry has long been dominated by products based on market cap weighted indexes, a strategy created to reflect the market or a particular market segment.
Market cap weighted indexes offer a low-cost, convenient, and transparent way of replicating market returns, and are a good option for investors who believe in market efficiency.
If you're the kind of investor who would rather try and beat the market through good stock selection, then smart beta funds are your best choice; this fund class is known for tracking non-cap weighted strategies.
Non-cap weighted indexes try to choose stocks that have a better chance of risk-return performance, which is based on specific fundamental characteristics, or a mix of other such characteristics.
Even though this space provides many choices to investors--think one of the simplest methodologies like equal-weighting and more complicated ones like fundamental and volatility/momentum based weighting--not all have been able to deliver first-rate results.
The fund is sponsored by Invesco. It has amassed assets over $269.63 million, making it one of the average sized ETFs in the Materials ETFs. This particular fund seeks to match the performance of the S&P 500 EQUAL WEIGHT MATERIALS INDEX before fees and expenses.
The S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials Index equally weights stocks in the materials sector of the S&P 500 Index.
For ETF investors, expense ratios are an important factor when considering a fund's return; in the long-term, cheaper funds actually have the ability to outperform their more expensive cousins if all other things remain the same.
With on par with most peer products in the space, this ETF has annual operating expenses of 0.40%.
It has a 12-month trailing dividend yield of 1.86%.
Most ETFs are very transparent products, and disclose their holdings on a daily basis. ETFs also offer diversified exposure, which minimizes single stock risk, though it's still important for investors to research a fund's holdings.
Representing 100% of the portfolio, the fund has heaviest allocation to the Materials sector.
When you look at individual holdings, Steel Dynamics Inc (STLD) accounts for about 4.14% of the fund's total assets, followed by Smurfit Westrock Plc (SW) and International Paper Co (IP).
The top 10 holdings account for about 39.03% of total assets under management.
The ETF has gained about 10.16% and was up about 18.69% so far this year and in the past one year (as of 11/27/2024), respectively. RSPM has traded between $31.48 and $37.59 during this last 52-week period.
The fund has a beta of 1.10 and standard deviation of 20.07% for the trailing three-year period. With about 29 holdings, it has more concentrated exposure than peers.
Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF is a reasonable option for investors seeking to outperform the Materials ETFs segment of the market. However, there are other ETFs in the space which investors could consider.
FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF (GUNR) tracks Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources Index and the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLB) tracks Materials Select Sector Index. FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF has $5.64 billion in assets, Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF has $6.04 billion. GUNR has an expense ratio of 0.46% and XLB charges 0.09%.
Investors looking for cheaper and lower-risk options should consider traditional market cap weighted ETFs that aim to match the returns of the Materials ETFs.
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Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF (RSPM): ETF Research Reports
Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD) : Free Stock Analysis Report
International Paper Company (IP) : Free Stock Analysis Report
Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLB): ETF Research Reports
FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF (GUNR): ETF Research Reports
Smurfit Westrock PLC (SW) : Free Stock Analysis Report
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