Fund Performance Analysis

Fund Performance Overview

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Fund Information (Nov 2011 - Dec 2022)

Fund Information

NameVanguard Utilities ETF (VPU)iShares Preferred&Income Securities ETF (PFF)iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF (USMV)
Asset ClassSector EquityTaxable BondU.S. Equity
CategoryUtilitiesPreferred StockLarge Blend
Fund BenchmarkMSCI US IMI/Utilities 25-50 GR USD (100.00%)ICE Exg-Lst Pd&Hyb S 4PM AllExgCl TR USD (100.00%)MSCI USA Minimum Volatility (USD) GR USD (100.00%)
Price/Earnings (TTM)22.07N/A22.93
Price/Book (TTM)2.17N/A4.11
Yield (SEC)2.91%6.49%1.79%
Yield (TTM)2.98%6.04%1.62%
Assets7.47 B12.92 B29.91 B
Equity Holdings6512165
Bond Holdings000
Total Holdings68499170
Turnover3%21%20%
Expense Ratio0.10%0.45%0.15%
Inception Date01/26/200403/26/200710/18/2011

Performance Summary

PortfolioInitial BalanceFinal BalanceCAGRStdevBest YearWorst YearMax. DrawdownSharpe RatioSortino RatioMarket Correlation
Vanguard Utilities ETF$10,000$29,949 10.32% 14.24%26.99%-4.82%-19.07% 0.711.100.45
iShares Preferred&Income Securities ETF$10,000$15,283 3.87% 8.57%18.20%-18.80%-19.74% 0.400.580.72
iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF$10,000$34,539 11.74% 11.64%27.69%-9.42%-19.06% 0.961.520.89

Portfolio Growth

   

Annual Returns

Trailing Returns

NameTotal ReturnAnnualized ReturnAnnualized Standard Deviation
3 MonthYear To Date1 year3 year5 year10 yearFull3 year5 year
Vanguard Utilities ETF8.64%1.04%1.04%5.58%8.93%10.91%10.32%19.41%16.07%
iShares Preferred&Income Securities ETF-2.02%-18.80%-18.80%-2.23%0.66%2.92%3.87%14.10%11.48%
iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF9.59%-9.42%-9.42%4.96%8.40%11.68%11.74%17.71%15.06%
Trailing return and volatility are as of last full calendar month ending December 2022

Drawdowns

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  • The fund performance analysis results were constructed using net of fee mutual fund performance. Portfolio Visualizer does not provide preferential treatment to any specific security or investment.
  • The results are based on the total return of assets and assume that all received dividends and distributions are reinvested.
  • Market capitalization refers to the total value of all a company's shares of stock. It is calculated by multiplying the price of a stock by its total number of outstanding shares. Large cap refers to a company with a market capitalization value of more than $10 billion, mid cap refers to a company with a market capitalization value between $2 and $10 billion, and small cap refers to a company with a market capitalization value below $2 billion. For funds and portfolios the equity market capitalization is calculated based on the long position of the equity holdings.
  • Credit quality measures the ability of a bond issuer to repay a bond's interest and principal in a timely manner. Ratings agencies research the financial health of each bond issuer and assign ratings to the bonds being offered. Lower-rated bonds generally offer higher yields to compensate investors for the additional risk. AAA is the highest possible rating that may be assigned to an issuer's bonds by any of the major credit rating agencies. Bonds rated AAA to AA are known as high-grade bonds, bonds rated A to BBB are known as medium-grade bonds, and bonds rated BB to C are known as non-investment grade bonds. An issuer will receive a rating of D if it is already in default on some of its debt. For funds and portfolios the fixed income credit quality break-down is calculated based on the long position of the fixed income holdings.
  • A fixed income maturity date refers to the specific date on which the investor's principal will be repaid. Duration measures a bond's or fixed income portfolio's price sensitivity to interest rate changes. If a bond has a duration of 5 years, and interest rates increase by 1%, the bond's price will decline by approximately 5%. Conversely, if a bond has a duration of 5 years and interest rates fall by 1%, the bond's price will increase by approximately 5%. A fixed income portfolio's duration is computed as the weighted average of individual bond durations held in the portfolio.
  • Compound annualized growth rate (CAGR) is the annualized geometric mean return of the portfolio. It is calculated from the portfolio start and end balance and is thus impacted by any cashflows.
  • The time-weighted rate of return (TWRR) is a measure of the compound rate of growth in a portfolio. This is calculated from the holding period returns (e.g. monthly returns), and TWRR will thus not be impacted by cashflows. If there are no external cashflows, TWRR will equal CAGR.
  • The money-weighted rate of return (MWRR) is the internal rate of return (IRR) taking into account cashflows. This is the discount rate at which the present value of cash inflows equals the present value of cash outflows.
  • Total return is the combined return in income and capital appreciation from investment in an asset. Yield measures the current cash income received from investment in an asset. Bonds provide yield in the form of interest payments and stocks through dividends.
  • Standard deviation (Stdev) is used to measure the dispersion of returns around the mean and is often used as a measure of risk. A higher standard deviation implies greater the dispersion of data points around the mean.
  • Sharpe Ratio is a measure of risk-adjusted performance of the portfolio, and it is calculated by dividing the mean monthly excess return of the portfolio over the risk-free rate by the standard deviation of excess return, and the displayed value is annualized.
  • Sortino Ratio is a measure of risk-adjusted return which is a modification of the Sharpe Ratio. While the latter is the ratio of average returns in excess of a risk-free rate divided by the standard deviation of those excess returns, the Sortino Ratio has the same denominator divided by the standard deviation of returns below the risk-free rate.
  • Treynor Ratio is a measure of risk-adjusted performance of the portfolio. It is similar to the Sharpe Ratio, but it uses portfolio beta (systematic risk) as the risk metric in the denominator.
  • Calmar Ratio is a measure of risk-adjusted performance of the portfolio. It is calculated as the annualized return over the past 36 months divided by the maximum drawdown over the past 36 months based on monthly returns.
  • Risk-free returns are calculated based on the Federal Reserve 3-Month Treasury Bill (secondary market) rates.
  • Downside deviation measures the downside volatility of the portfolio returns unlike standard deviation, which includes both upside and downside deviations. Downside deviation is calculated based on negative returns that hurt the portfolio performance.
  • Skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution or returns from a normal Gaussian distribution shape about its mean. Negative skewness is associated with the left (typically negative returns) tail of the distribution extending further than the right tail; and positive skewness is associated with the right (typically positive returns) tail of the distribution extending further than the left tail.
  • Excess kurtosis is a measure of whether a data distribution is peaked or flat relative to a normal distribution. Distributions with high kurtosis tend to have a distinct peak near the mean, decline rather rapidly, and have heavy or fat tails.
  • A drawdown refers to the decline in value of a single investment or an investment portfolio from a relative peak value to a relative trough. A maximum drawdown (Max Drawdown) is the maximum observed loss from a peak to a trough of a portfolio before a new peak is attained. Drawdown values are calculated based on monthly returns.
  • Value at Risk (VaR) measures the scale of loss at a given confidence level. If the 5% VaR is -3% the portfolio return is expected to be greater than -3% 95% of the time and less than -3% 5% of the time. Value at Risk can be calculated directly based on historical returns based on a given percentile or analytically based on the mean and standard deviation of the returns.
  • Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) measures the scale of the expected loss once the specific Value at Risk (VaR) breakpoint has been breached, i.e., it calculates the average tail loss by taking a weighted average between the value at risk and losses exceeding the value at risk.
  • Beta is a measure of systematic risk and measures the volatility of a particular investment relative to the market or its benchmark. Alpha measures the active return of the investment compared to the market benchmark return. R-squared is the percentage of a portfolio's movements that can be explained by movements in the selected benchmark index.
  • Active return is the investment return minus the return of its benchmark. For periods longer than 12 months this is displayed as annualized value, i.e., annualized investment return minus annualized benchmark return.
  • Tracking error, also known as active risk, is the standard deviation of active return. This is displayed as annualized value based on the standard deviation of monthly active returns.
  • Information ratio is the active return divided by the tracking error. It measures whether the investment outperformed its benchmark consistently.
  • Gain/Loss ratio is a measure of downside risk, and it is calculated as the average positive return in up periods divided by the average negative return in down periods.
  • Upside Capture Ratio measures how well the fund performed relative to the benchmark when the market was up, and Downside Capture Ratio measures how well the fund performed relative to the benchmark when the market was down. An upside capture ratio greater than 100 would indicate that the fund outperformed its benchmark when the market was up, and a downside capture ratio below 100 would indicate that the fund lost less than its benchmark when the market was down. To calculate upside capture ratio a new series from the portfolio returns is constructed by dropping all time periods where the benchmark return is less than equal to zero. The up capture is then the quotient of the annualized return of the resulting manager series, divided by the annualized return of the resulting benchmark series. The downside capture ratio is calculated analogously.
  • All risk measures for the portfolio and portfolio assets are calculated based on monthly returns.
  • Gross expense ratio reflects the total annual operating expenses paid by each fund. Net expense ratio reflects what investors were charged after waivers, reductions, and reimbursements.
  • Price to earnings (P/E) ratio of a stock is calculated by dividing the current price of the stock by its trailing 12 months' earnings per share. For funds the price to earnings ratio is computed as the weighted average of fund holdings.
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Returns Based Style Analysis

Style CategoryiShares Preferred&Income Securities ETFiShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF
Large-cap Value0.00%54.03%
Large-cap Growth12.28%24.10%
Mid-cap Value13.71%0.00%
Mid-cap Growth0.00%0.00%
Small-cap Value0.00%0.00%
Small-cap Growth0.00%0.00%
Global ex-US Developed Markets0.00%0.00%
Emerging Markets0.85%0.00%
Corporate Bonds57.86%0.00%
Long-Term Treasuries0.00%21.88%
Intermediate-Term Treasuries0.00%0.00%
Short-Term Treasuries15.30%0.00%
R Squared70.84%86.14%
Style analysis is based on monthly returns from November 2011 to December 2022 and uses total portfolio return with monthly rebalancing. Returns based style analysis aims to explain the portfolio returns based on asset class exposures, it does not identify the actual portfolio holdings.

Holdings Based Style Analysis for Vanguard Utilities ETF

TickerNameCategoryWeightYieldExpense RatioP/EContribution
SECTTMNetGrossReturnRisk
VPUVanguard Utilities ETFUtilities100.00%2.91%2.98%0.10%0.10%22.07$19,949100.00%
Asset Allocation
Equity Market Capitalization
Equity Sectors

Holdings Based Style Analysis for iShares Preferred&Income Securities ETF

TickerNameCategoryWeightYieldExpense RatioContribution
SECTTMNetGrossReturnRisk
PFFiShares Preferred&Income Securities ETFPreferred Stock100.00%6.49%6.04%0.45%0.45%$5,283100.00%
Asset Allocation
Equity Sectors

Holdings Based Style Analysis for iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF

TickerNameCategoryWeightYieldExpense RatioP/EContribution
SECTTMNetGrossReturnRisk
USMViShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETFLarge Blend100.00%1.79%1.62%0.15%0.15%22.93$24,539100.00%
Asset Allocation
Equity Market Capitalization
Equity Sectors

Risk and Return Metrics

MetricVanguard Utilities ETFiShares Preferred&Income Securities ETFiShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF
Arithmetic Mean (monthly)0.91%0.35%0.99%
Arithmetic Mean (annualized)11.43%4.25%12.49%
Geometric Mean (monthly)0.82%0.32%0.93%
Geometric Mean (annualized)10.32%3.87%11.74%
Standard Deviation (monthly)4.11%2.47%3.36%
Standard Deviation (annualized)14.24%8.57%11.64%
Downside Deviation (monthly)2.64%1.70%2.08%
Maximum Drawdown-19.07%-19.74%-19.06%
Stock Market Correlation0.450.720.89
Beta(*)0.430.420.71
Alpha (annualized)5.40%-1.13%2.88%
R219.98%51.65%79.86%
Sharpe Ratio0.710.400.96
Sortino Ratio1.100.581.52
Treynor Ratio (%)23.538.3215.75
Calmar Ratio0.29-0.110.26
Active Return-1.88%-8.33%-0.46%
Tracking Error15.23%10.42%6.77%
Information Ratio-0.12-0.80-0.07
Skewness-0.45-0.62-0.59
Excess Kurtosis0.255.591.12
Historical Value-at-Risk (5%)-5.99%-3.69%-4.69%
Analytical Value-at-Risk (5%)-5.86%-3.72%-4.54%
Conditional Value-at-Risk (5%)-8.38%-5.85%-7.16%
Upside Capture Ratio (%)49.2933.0777.15
Downside Capture Ratio (%)27.5740.1367.18
Safe Withdrawal Rate13.16%10.46%14.85%
Perpetual Withdrawal Rate6.66%1.27%7.75%
Positive Periods86 out of 134 (64.18%)87 out of 134 (64.93%)89 out of 134 (66.42%)
Gain/Loss Ratio0.960.821.07
* US stock market is used as the benchmark for calculations. Value-at-risk metrics are based on monthly values.

Vanguard Utilities ETF Returns

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
20111.06%3.33%4.43%
2012-3.60%0.63%1.29%1.75%0.17%3.87%2.75%-3.69%1.38%1.31%-3.81%0.13%1.83%
20135.19%2.31%5.49%5.64%-8.20%0.98%4.43%-5.32%1.41%3.99%-2.06%1.18%14.88%
20142.75%3.32%3.23%3.75%-0.73%4.55%-6.95%5.15%-2.65%8.37%0.81%3.43%26.99%
20152.18%-5.94%-0.69%-0.64%0.37%-6.07%5.47%-3.60%2.71%1.95%-2.13%2.16%-4.82%
20164.69%1.78%8.17%-1.95%1.63%7.67%-0.89%-5.43%0.51%0.90%-4.54%4.81%17.60%
20171.17%4.95%-0.06%0.67%4.00%-2.37%2.65%2.90%-2.44%3.91%2.89%-5.90%12.46%
2018-3.13%-4.11%4.02%2.47%-0.31%2.42%1.67%1.15%-0.38%1.17%3.92%-4.15%4.37%
20193.72%3.88%2.83%0.86%-0.87%3.33%-0.21%4.83%4.08%-0.86%-1.98%3.11%24.87%
20206.10%-9.99%-10.09%3.23%4.31%-4.86%7.24%-2.54%0.58%4.89%1.43%0.89%-0.76%
2021-1.04%-5.54%10.30%3.78%-2.34%-1.86%3.92%3.70%-6.17%5.12%-1.59%9.42%17.37%
2022-3.36%-1.87%9.80%-4.38%4.51%-5.09%5.71%0.29%-11.17%2.45%7.04%-0.93%1.04%
Annual return for 2011 is from 11/01/2011 to 12/31/2011

iShares Preferred&Income Securities ETF Returns

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
2011-3.13%0.12%-3.01%
20127.07%3.04%0.18%0.22%-1.17%2.42%1.50%1.48%0.73%1.01%0.18%0.39%18.20%
20131.34%0.53%1.12%1.05%-0.66%-2.20%-0.54%-2.19%0.68%0.93%0.32%-1.29%-0.98%
20142.96%2.28%1.75%1.84%1.25%0.61%-0.50%1.79%-0.82%1.07%1.24%-0.12%14.11%
20151.32%0.97%0.30%0.02%-0.01%-1.01%1.36%-0.75%-0.69%2.16%0.67%-0.10%4.27%
2016-0.98%0.06%2.38%0.88%1.54%1.18%1.39%0.02%-1.07%-0.97%-3.33%0.31%1.30%
20172.39%2.09%0.50%1.30%0.55%0.80%0.66%-0.06%-0.16%-0.37%0.68%-0.52%8.10%
2018-1.18%0.27%0.54%-0.70%0.81%1.76%0.19%1.41%-1.71%-2.24%-2.23%-1.53%-4.63%
20195.64%0.58%1.46%0.68%0.25%1.31%1.80%0.60%0.75%0.43%-0.44%1.92%15.92%
20201.52%-4.87%-11.90%9.45%1.92%-0.95%4.95%1.90%-0.25%-0.20%4.61%2.63%7.44%
2021-1.71%-0.88%3.17%1.18%0.79%1.67%0.60%0.33%-1.12%1.83%-2.10%3.32%7.13%
2022-4.51%-3.03%0.39%-6.43%2.73%-4.98%6.17%-3.80%-4.43%-3.15%4.98%-3.63%-18.80%
Annual return for 2011 is from 11/01/2011 to 12/31/2011

iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF Returns

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
20110.15%3.07%3.23%
20121.31%2.11%2.57%1.31%-2.17%3.63%1.94%-0.17%1.58%-1.11%0.34%-0.85%10.82%
20134.99%2.76%4.96%2.78%-2.35%-0.42%3.68%-3.26%2.54%4.72%1.32%1.27%25.09%
2014-3.04%4.39%0.85%1.33%1.15%1.24%-1.42%3.98%-0.79%4.25%3.56%0.04%16.33%
2015-0.49%3.65%-0.74%-0.58%1.02%-2.23%4.02%-4.53%-0.62%5.99%-0.21%0.50%5.45%
2016-1.39%1.04%5.93%-0.36%1.58%4.49%1.47%-1.96%-0.64%-2.75%0.61%2.43%10.57%
20171.26%4.54%0.12%1.40%2.00%-0.35%2.02%0.76%0.52%1.95%3.08%0.24%18.91%
20183.49%-4.25%-0.25%0.21%1.00%1.70%3.29%3.06%1.25%-4.05%3.23%-6.68%1.36%
20195.65%3.83%2.72%2.18%-1.61%4.98%1.67%1.59%0.98%-0.23%1.39%1.77%27.69%
20202.35%-8.74%-11.31%9.37%4.32%-1.11%4.57%2.73%-1.66%-3.25%8.09%2.31%5.64%
2021-2.73%-0.38%5.61%3.99%0.88%1.71%3.55%1.88%-4.99%5.51%-2.05%6.84%20.84%
2022-5.98%-3.06%5.58%-5.34%0.04%-4.13%5.13%-3.16%-7.07%7.70%5.72%-3.75%-9.42%
Annual return for 2011 is from 11/01/2011 to 12/31/2011

Rolling Returns

Roll PeriodVanguard Utilities ETFiShares Preferred&Income Securities ETFiShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF
AverageHighLowAverageHighLowAverageHighLow
1 year11.00%31.64%-7.44%4.64%26.94%-18.81%12.26%30.51%-9.42%
3 years10.50%16.34%2.77%4.84%10.21%-2.23%12.19%18.44%2.79%
5 years10.50%14.34%6.97%4.59%7.13%0.46%12.21%15.07%7.54%
7 years10.67%13.42%8.49%4.65%6.44%1.69%12.19%14.70%9.67%
10 years10.78%11.64%9.73%4.60%6.85%2.86%12.31%13.96%10.48%

Annualized Rolling Return - 3 Years

Annualized Rolling Return - 5 Years