Finally, this ETF tends to focus on buying and holding mostly small cap biotech stocks, as the average company in this ETF has a market cap of roughly $ 2 billion, which is dwarfed but
its category average market cap, which rings in closer to $ 35 billion.
Not exact matches
The fund has an
average market cap of just under $ 18 billion, which is significantly lower than its benchmark ($ 43 billion for the Russell 1000) and the
category average ($ 56 billion), according to data from Morningstar.
Funds in the Canadian Small / Mid
Cap Equity category must invest at least 90 % of their equity holdings in securities domiciled in Canada, and their average market capitalization must be lower than the Canadian small / mid cap thresho
Cap Equity
category must invest at least 90 % of their equity holdings in securities domiciled in Canada, and their
average market capitalization must be lower than the Canadian small / mid
cap thresho
cap threshold.
Funds in the Canadian Equity
category must invest at least 90 % of their equity holdings in securities domiciled in Canada, and their
average market capitalization must be greater than the Canadian small / mid
cap threshold.
Funds in the Canadian Focused Equity
category must invest at least 50 % and less than 90 % of their equity holdings in securities domiciled in Canada, and their
average market capitalization must be greater than the Canadian small / mid
cap threshold.
I filtered out ADRs, non-US companies, companies in the miscellaneous financial services industry
category (to mainly filter out closed - end funds), stocks trading below $ 2,
market caps less than $ 433 million (approximately matching the
average cut - off Tortoriello used), and companies that did not have a current fiscal year earnings to price ratio due to missing data.
REITs are generally quite different from the small -
cap value segment of the non-REIT stock
market: the long - term
average performance of the two
categories is very similar, but REITs have usually been less volatile and the correlation between them has typically been only about 70 percent.