T. Rowe Price Value ETF

TVAL

Market cap $949M

VettaFi's Head of Research Todd Rosenbluth discussed the T. Rowe Price Value ETF (TVAL) on this week's “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe of “Money Life.

Inflation is not so quietly ratcheting up. The economist group the Survey of Professional Forecasters recently projected a heady 6% inflation rate for the second quarter in the U.S. amid continued Middle East volatility and uncertainty.

The T. Rowe Price Value ETF (TVAL) represents a different kind of active value ETF, one that gives managers the room to find undervalued companies without being locked into index rules. Key Takeaways: Passive value ETFs can follow different indexes yet arrive at nearly the same long-term return.

Active equity ETFs posted double-digit returns in April. Conflicting signals from the Federal Reserve and a fracture in global oil alliances created an environment where stock selection matters.

2026 is off to a volatile start for markets, with geopolitics a bigger factor than ever. The U.S. Iran War has upended whatever predictions markets may have had entering the new year, following a previous U.S. intervention in Venezuela.

As the market digests the latest round of corporate earnings, all eyes have turned to Alphabet. Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL/GOOG) is reporting its fourth-quarter results Wednesday after the bell, with Wall Street setting a high bar for the search giant.

For years, value investing has felt akin to waiting for a train that keeps getting delayed. The market has rewarded unbridled growth at any price going back to the mid-2010s.

Let's face it: Justified or not, stocks are expensive right now. Many key market-leading firms are asking investors to pay a premium for equity exposure, particularly the AI-hyperscalers and megacap tech names.

It may as well be an annual tradition for value investing to turn heads. But with stocks reaching record highs, investors may be looking askance at a very expensive S&P 500.

Value stocks almost always seem just on the cusp of a bright moment, but could “this” time actually be for real for the category? Where past value calls have stemmed from smaller trends in equities data, like disappointing growth returns, more macro factors are looming that could produce value-friendly conditions: namely, persistent inflation.