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About iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF
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Inception date
Apr 16, 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
VLUE seeks value-stocks in the US large- and mid-cap equity space. iShares changed the index under VLUE on September 1, 2015, arguably sharpening the ETF's value focus. The index creates a value score for stock selection and , which is hardly original, but VLUE's index does something else too: it looks for value stocks within each sector, taking into account that P/B for a typical tech stock may be much higher than that of a financial stock. (Forward P/E and EV/CFO are the other factors.) Then the index provider, assigns weights by multiplying a components value score by its market cap. Weights in the Underlying Index are normalized so that sectors in the Underlying Index represent the same weight as the MSCI USA Index (Parent Index). However, major sector biases that might have otherwise been produced are mitigated by its sector-relative approach. The added value exposure has also led to higher risk overall for the fund.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Electronic Technology
Finance
Stocks99.82%
Electronic Technology22.19%
Finance16.48%
Technology Services8.92%
Consumer Durables8.89%
Communications8.81%
Producer Manufacturing5.69%
Retail Trade4.66%
Health Services4.65%
Health Technology4.57%
Energy Minerals2.78%
Consumer Non-Durables2.69%
Consumer Services2.49%
Process Industries2.44%
Utilities2.36%
Transportation1.21%
Non-Energy Minerals0.78%
Commercial Services0.19%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.18%
Mutual fund0.16%
Cash0.02%
Stock breakdown by region
North America96.23%
Europe3.77%
Latin America0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history