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April 15, 2024MVAL ETF: Forward-Looking Style Characteristics (2:14 MIN)

Brandon Rakszawski

Director of Product Management

Learn how the VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat Value ETF (MVAL) leverages the best of Morningstar's equity research to improve value exposure across investors' portfolios.

VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat Value ETF, ticker MVAL, offers investors access to Morningstar's proven forward-looking equity research with consistent and differentiated style exposure.

Morningstar’s style classification system, which also underpins its widely recognized style box, stands out in the market by considering not only backward-looking measurements, but also forward-looking style characteristics.

Style Score Process

In fact, forward -looking projections are given equal prominence when determining a company's style score. Morningstar considers not only traditional style metrics like price to book, price to sales, earnings growth, sales growth. But 50% of the weighting of a company's style score is determined from its price to projected earnings and long-term projected earnings growth.

MVAL’s Forward-looking Approach

Once style characteristics are assigned, more forward-looking research kicks in. Morningstar's tried and true economic moat research and valuation research inform selections within the value style category.

When identifying quality companies, Morningstar selects those it projects can fend off competition upwards of 20 years into the future. When assessing a company's valuation, Morningstar projects free cash flows decades into the future, discounting it back to today in order to identify what a company is worth today based on tomorrow's cash flow.

MVAL is forward-looking from front to back. It leverages the best of Morningstar's equity research to improve value exposure across investors' portfolios.

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