Leveraging our Robo-Analyst technology, which analyzes the holdings of all 7,908 ETFs and mutual funds under coverage, we found this ETF with high quality holdings that should appeal to sophisticated value investors.
The valuation alone is not enough to justify keeping this position open given the large improvement in the firm’s fundamentals led by a new management team.
Our time-weighted methodology failed to properly capture the impact of tickers removed from the Focus List. To correct this oversight, we’re updating the performance methodology of our Focus List Model Portfolios.
This firm is a classic “roll-up” that has been buying up smaller competitors for years to manufacture EPS growth. Its recent and largest acquisition to date is also the most harmful to shareholders.
In our calculation of ROIC, we use a time-weighted average invested capital, to most accurately capture the capital available to a business that can be used to generate NOPAT over the course of a year.