Zacks Earnings Consistent Portfolio ETF

ZECP

Market cap $348M

ZECP selects 50–120 stocks with a long history of posting consistent earnings results. The strategy might appeal to defensive investors looking for positive performance even in down markets. Unfortunately, the Fund's earnings consistency mandate also means fast-growing companies are excluded. While acceptable to risk-averse investors, its valuation ratios are barely better than S&P 500 Index ETFs like SPY. Zacks Earnings Consistent Portfolio ETF's fundamental problems come against the backdrop of an excessive 0.55% expense ratio, which is net of a 0.34% waiver that can be terminated with 60 days notice.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zacks Investment Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zacks Investment Research with $15.1 billion in assets under management, celebrates the three-year anniversary of its flagship ETF, the Zacks Earnings Consistent Portfolio ETF (Cboe: ZECP). For the past three years, Zacks has leveraged its pioneering research-driven investment methodology to create innovative, actively-managed ETFs. ZECP is built on Zack's established methodology rooted in earnings estimate revi.