SURE - AdvisorShares Insiders Advantage ETF

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Invest in firms reducing their equity float through buyback programs and insider buying

Symbol Exchange Inception Date CUSIP
SURE NYSE Arca 10/4/2011 00768Y818
<strong>About the ETF</strong>

Following a core investment philosophy that corporate insiders know their companies the best, the AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF (SURE) seeks to invest in the equities of companies actively trying to reduce their public equity float through well-executed stock buyback programs and corporate insider buying. Not only do buybacks and insider buying demonstrate that executives may see relative value in the firm’s stock, they also could create favorable shareholder market conditions through the reduction of publicly available shares (float shrink). SURE selects holdings using an active, quantitative, multi-factor model to identify companies shrinking float, lowering leverage, growing free cash flow, and providing dividends. SURE’s holdings are equal-weighted and reconstituted/rebalanced monthly.

<strong>What Is Float Shrink?</strong>

Public equity float refers to the portion of a company’s outstanding shares that is in the hands of public investors – as opposed to company officers, directors, or stockholders that hold controlling interests – and are available for trading in the open market. The float is calculated by subtracting restricted shares from outstanding shares. Float shrink occurs when there is a reduction of publicly available shares. 

Buybacks – action taken by a corporation to repurchase its own shares from the marketplace – are the most common cause of float shrink today and one of two ways a company can distribute profits to shareholders. Dividend payments are the second form. While firms may implement both, since 1997, share buybacks have surpassed cash dividends to become the dominant form of corporate payout in the U.S. Not only do buybacks avoid a stock price penalty if a firm cuts or ends a program, like dividends are subject to, but also provide a positive market impact by improving earnings and cash flow per share.

Insider buying – the purchase of shares in a corporation by a board member, officer, or executive within that company (i.e., corporate insider) – is another way that float shrink occurs. It may be a strong indicator that insiders are becoming more optimistic about the company’s future. Buying by corporate insiders is legal, highly regulated, publicly disclosed, and different from “insider trading” – the illegal act of buying or selling stock by someone who has privileged, non-public information about a company.

 

<strong>Why Invest?</strong>
  • Investing with Corporate Insiders – Top firm executives know more about the company’s fundamentals than the investing public. These insiders can influence their company’s share price by timing equity issuance and repurchase to the firm’s advantage. A well-implemented buyback program reduces publicly available shares and can increase the stock’s price. Additionally, corporate insider buying can be a bullish signal that the stock is underpriced by the market.
  • Conscientious Float Shrink – Investing solely in stock buybacks can be problematic. SURE employs a comprehensive, multi-factor strategy to assess if a firm is reducing their float in a well-planned manner, analyzing free cash flow, profitability, leverage reduction, dividend yield, net buybacks and insider buying.
  • Disciplined Growth – A quantitative, actively managed, equal weight investment strategy focused on long-term growth. 

 

<strong>Key Attributes</strong>
  • Float Shrink – Corporate insiders have better information than the investing public and know their companies the best. Stock buyback programs and insider buying not only show that corporate insiders see relative value in investing in their own equity securities, but also create favorable market conditions for shareholders by reducing the number of publicly traded shares and improving earnings and cash flow per share. 
  • Extensive Stock Screening – SURE’s portfolio manager screens approximately 3,000 companies and looks for the following characteristics when selecting stocks: shareholder-friendliness (measured by float shrink and dividend yield), profitability (measured by free cash flow), solid balance sheet (measured by outstanding leverage).
  • Equal Weight Investing – In a market-cap weighted portfolio, a small number of the largest companies receive the heaviest allocations and overvalued components are overweighted relative to undervalued components. By contrast, with an equal weight strategy, the bias to the largest companies is removed; a buy low, sell high discipline is regularly followed with periodic rebalancing; and reallocation to undervalued stocks may provide the opportunity to capture long-term equity performance.
  • Actively Managed ETF Structure – SURE is different from other buyback-focused investments that follow passive, market-cap weighted indexes and only reconstitute annually. SURE re-evaluates its investable universe and existing holdings monthly – adding or removing stocks and returning each security to an equal-weight allocation – allowing SURE to react more quickly to changes in buyback programs, acquisition announcements, etc. An ETF structure allows for better tax efficiency than mutual funds or than investing in the underlying stocks directly.
<strong>Where Can SURE Fit in a Traditional Portfolio?</strong>

SURE can serve as a thematic investment or a complement to a dividend investing or market-cap weighted core strategy.

<strong>About the Portfolio Strategist</strong>

Minyi Chen, Portfolio Strategist

Minyi Chen, CFA is the founder and CEO of Qubed Capital, a registered investment advisor founded in 2015 and based in Oakland, California. For over a decade, Mr. Chen has been providing quantitative financial research and analysis along with proprietary investment models to both retail and institutional investors. In the past, Mr. Chen has served as a portfolio manager of the AdvisorShares TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF (ticker: TTFS) and the TrimTabs International Free-Cash-Flow ETF (ticker: FCFI).

 

 

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Fund

Price History

Fund Data

7/26/2024
NAV $114.77
Change $1.39
Shares Outstanding 420,000
Assets Under Management $48,202,868.49

 

 

 

 

Market Data

7/26/2024
Closing Price $114.64
Close Change $1.22
Volume 124

Regulatory Data

7/26/2024
Premium Discount $0.01
30-Day Median bid-ask Spread 0.370000
Premium/Discount Historical Data | NAV Historical Data | Daily Premium/Discount Historical Data

Shares are bought and sold at market price (closing price) not NAV and are not individually redeemed from the Fund. Market price returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00 pm Eastern Time (when NAV is normally determined), and do not represent the return you would receive if you traded at other times.

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Characteristics

As of 6/30/2024

SURE Market Capitalization

Source: Morningstar & AdvisorShares

SURE Sector Allocation

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Performance

As of 6/30/2024

  NAV Market Price Return Russell 1000 Value Russell 3000 Index
1 Month -1.63 -1.68 -0.94 3.09
3 Months -4.05 -4.09 -2.17 3.20
YTD 7.32 7.15 6.62 13.54
1 Year 19.11 18.93 13.06 23.11
3 Years 6.88 6.88 5.52 8.03
5 Years 11.85 11.85 9.01 14.13
10 Years 9.31 9.29 8.23 12.14
Since Inception (10/04/2011, Annualized) 13.15 13.14 12.01 14.95

As of 6/30/2024

  NAV Market Price Return Russell 1000 Value Russell 3000 Index
1 Month -1.63 -1.68 -0.94 3.09
3 Months -4.05 -4.09 -2.17 3.20
YTD 7.32 7.15 6.62 13.54
1 Year 19.11 18.93 13.06 23.11
3 Years 6.88 6.88 5.52 8.03
5 Years 11.85 11.85 9.01 14.13
10 Years 9.31 9.29 8.23 12.14
Since Inception (10/04/2011, Annualized) 13.15 13.14 12.01 14.95

As of 6/30/2024

  NAV Market Price Return Russell 1000 Value Russell 3000 Index
1 Month -1.63 -1.68 -0.94 3.09
3 Months -4.05 -4.09 -2.17 3.20
YTD 7.32 7.15 6.62 13.54
1 Year 19.11 18.93 13.06 23.11
Since 9/1/2022, Annualized 16.72 16.83 11.27 39.04

Performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. All Fund data and performance data quoted is believed to be accurate, and unless otherwise stated, is sourced from the Fund administrator, the Advisor’s or Sub-Advisor’s proprietary data, and Morningstar. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. Returns less than one year are not annualized.

*On September 1, 2022, the AdvisorShares DoubleLine Value Equity ETF (the “Predecessor Fund”) was renamed the AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF. The Predecessor Fund had different portfolio managers and investment strategy than the AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF. Performance prior to September 1, 2022 reflects the Fund’s performance prior to the change in manager and investment strategy and may not be indicative of the Fund’s performance under the new manager and revised investment strategy. Performance since September 1, 2022 reflects actual  AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF performance.

Performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. All Fund data and performance data quoted is believed to be accurate, and unless otherwise stated, is sourced from the Fund administrator, the Advisor’s or Sub-Advisor’s proprietary data, and Morningstar. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. Returns less than one year are not annualized. One cannot invest directly in an index. The Russell 1000 Index represents the top 1000 companies by market capitalization in the United States. The index is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index. The Russell 3000 Index is broad market, capitalization-weighted index comprised of the largest 3,000 U.S. companies and represents 98% of the investable U.S. equity market. 

Fund

Holdings

As of

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Date Account Symbol Stock Ticker Security ID Security Description Shares Share Price Market Value Portfolio Weight Asset Group
07/26/2024 SURE PJT 69343T107 PJT PARTNERS INC - A 4,854 126.38 613,448.52 1.27% S
NMRK 65158N102 NEWMARK GROUP INC-CLASS A 46,982 12.73 598,080.86 1.24% S
KBH 48666K109 KB HOME 7,100 83.76 594,696.00 1.23% S
MTG 552848103 MGIC INVESTMENT CORP 22,932 24.88 570,548.16 1.18% S
MUSA 626755102 MURPHY USA INC 1,116 510.25 569,439.00 1.18% S
IDCC 45867G101 INTERDIGITAL INC 4,688 120.74 566,029.12 1.17% S
BGC 088929104 BGC GROUP INC-A 59,552 9.45 562,766.40 1.17% S
PRGS 743312100 PROGRESS SOFTWARE CORP 9,520 57.89 551,112.80 1.14% S
LDOS 525327102 LEIDOS HOLDINGS INC 3,662 149.83 548,677.46 1.14% S
CTS 126501105 CTS CORP 10,452 52.29 546,535.08 1.13% S
ACN G1151C101 ACCENTURE PLC-CL A 1,650 328.46 541,959.00 1.12% FS
LMT 539830109 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP 1,030 524.80 540,544.00 1.12% S
NHI 63633D104 NATL HEALTH INVESTORS INC 7,175 75.07 538,627.25 1.12% S
PHM 745867101 PULTEGROUP INC 4,141 129.99 538,288.59 1.12% S
NYT 650111107 NEW YORK TIMES CO-A 9,981 53.87 537,676.47 1.12% S
LEN 526057104 LENNAR CORP-A 3,028 176.71 535,077.88 1.11% S
JHG G4474Y214 JANUS HENDERSON GROUP PLC 14,460 36.55 528,513.00 1.10% FS
MO 02209S103 ALTRIA GROUP INC 10,475 50.43 528,254.25 1.10% S
EA 285512109 ELECTRONIC ARTS INC 3,638 145.18 528,164.84 1.10% S
AWI 04247X102 ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES 4,004 131.25 525,525.00 1.09% S
CSL 142339100 CARLISLE COS INC 1,232 424.66 523,181.12 1.09% S
RTX 75513E101 RTX CORP 4,572 113.95 520,979.40 1.08% S
CL 194162103 COLGATE-PALMOLIVE CO 5,232 99.39 520,008.48 1.08% S
AMKR 031652100 AMKOR TECHNOLOGY INC 13,560 38.15 517,314.00 1.07% S
LNG 16411R208 CHENIERE ENERGY INC 2,905 176.72 513,371.60 1.07% S
ALSN 01973R101 ALLISON TRANSMISSION HOLDING 5,832 87.76 511,816.32 1.06% S
OC 690742101 OWENS CORNING 2,832 180.09 510,014.88 1.06% S
HIG 416515104 HARTFORD FINANCIAL SVCS GRP 4,640 109.63 508,683.20 1.06% S
AMG 008252108 AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP 2,872 177.02 508,401.44 1.05% S
GFF 398433102 GRIFFON CORP 6,789 74.71 507,206.19 1.05% S
HLT 43300A203 HILTON WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS IN 2,350 215.61 506,683.50 1.05% S
BDC 077454106 BELDEN INC 5,498 91.97 505,651.06 1.05% S
NSA 637870106 NATIONAL STORAGE AFFILIATES 11,610 43.46 504,570.60 1.05% S
GEN 668771108 GEN DIGITAL INC 19,330 26.09 504,319.70 1.05% S
WAB 929740108 WABTEC CORP 3,146 159.69 502,384.74 1.04% S
INTU 461202103 INTUIT INC 790 633.36 500,354.40 1.04% S
AAPL 037833100 APPLE INC 2,288 217.96 498,692.48 1.03% S
MET 59156R108 METLIFE INC 6,542 76.00 497,192.00 1.03% S
MTN 91879Q109 VAIL RESORTS INC 2,680 184.65 494,862.00 1.03% S
HD 437076102 HOME DEPOT INC 1,370 359.51 492,528.70 1.02% S
EBAY 278642103 EBAY INC 9,084 54.18 492,171.12 1.02% S
BWXT 05605H100 BWX TECHNOLOGIES INC 4,962 99.14 491,932.68 1.02% S
TMO 883556102 THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC 810 607.14 491,783.40 1.02% S
CVX 166764100 CHEVRON CORP 3,100 157.84 489,304.00 1.02% S
ROST 778296103 ROSS STORES INC 3,468 140.91 488,675.88 1.01% S
TJX 872540109 TJX COMPANIES INC 4,350 111.83 486,460.50 1.01% S
AXP 025816109 AMERICAN EXPRESS CO 1,973 245.89 485,140.97 1.01% S
BG H11356104 BUNGE GLOBAL SA 4,239 114.31 484,560.09 1.01% FS
CF 125269100 CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS INC 6,430 75.04 482,507.20 1.00% S
NRG 629377508 NRG ENERGY INC 6,544 73.71 482,358.24 1.00% S
KMB 494368103 KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP 3,380 141.81 479,317.80 0.99% S
OMC 681919106 OMNICOM GROUP 4,961 95.43 473,428.23 0.98% S
NTAP 64110D104 NETAPP INC 3,750 126.15 473,062.50 0.98% S
LRCX 512807108 LAM RESEARCH CORP 527 894.64 471,475.28 0.98% S
GWW 384802104 WW GRAINGER INC 483 970.34 468,674.22 0.97% S
KLAC 482480100 KLA CORP 595 787.39 468,497.05 0.97% S
FIS 31620M106 FIDELITY NATIONAL INFO SERV 6,190 75.68 468,459.20 0.97% S
GOOGL 02079K305 ALPHABET INC-CL A 2,797 167.00 467,099.00 0.97% S
DOX G02602103 AMDOCS LTD 5,362 86.92 466,065.04 0.97% FS
CTVA 22052L104 CORTEVA INC 8,390 55.39 464,722.10 0.96% S
AIG 026874784 AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP 5,999 77.24 463,362.76 0.96% S
RMD 761152107 RESMED INC 2,332 197.04 459,497.28 0.95% S
BSY 08265T208 BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC-CLASS B 9,430 48.52 457,543.60 0.95% S
EXP 26969P108 EAGLE MATERIALS INC 1,856 246.07 456,705.92 0.95% S
PTEN 703481101 PATTERSON-UTI ENERGY INC 43,680 10.43 455,582.40 0.95% S
MSFT 594918104 MICROSOFT CORP 1,070 425.27 455,038.90 0.94% S
GM 37045V100 GENERAL MOTORS CO 10,285 44.12 453,774.20 0.94% S
AYI 00508Y102 ACUITY BRANDS INC 1,826 248.33 453,450.58 0.94% S
CI 125523100 THE CIGNA GROUP 1,311 343.64 450,512.04 0.93% S
STLD 858119100 STEEL DYNAMICS INC 3,438 130.54 448,796.52 0.93% S
CAT 149123101 CATERPILLAR INC 1,280 350.48 448,614.40 0.93% S
MCHP 595017104 MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC 5,150 86.83 447,174.50 0.93% S
VLO 91913Y100 VALERO ENERGY CORP 2,807 159.12 446,649.84 0.93% S
BKNG 09857L108 BOOKING HOLDINGS INC 120 3,700.99 444,118.80 0.92% S
CHD 171340102 CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC 4,376 101.38 443,638.88 0.92% S
META 30303M102 META PLATFORMS INC-CLASS A 948 465.70 441,483.60 0.92% S
MA 57636Q104 MASTERCARD INC - A 1,007 438.18 441,247.26 0.92% S
WU 959802109 WESTERN UNION CO 34,479 12.78 440,641.62 0.91% S
V 92826C839 VISA INC-CLASS A SHARES 1,695 259.46 439,784.70 0.91% S
EOG 26875P101 EOG RESOURCES INC 3,458 127.15 439,684.70 0.91% S
ODFL 679580100 OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE 2,148 202.93 435,893.64 0.90% S
ARCH 03940R107 ARCH RESOURCES INC 3,030 142.42 431,532.60 0.90% S
BALL 058498106 BALL CORP 6,819 63.25 431,301.75 0.89% S
COLM 198516106 COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO 5,643 76.38 431,012.34 0.89% S
SM 78454L100 SM ENERGY CO 9,368 45.91 430,084.88 0.89% S
LVS 517834107 LAS VEGAS SANDS CORP 10,860 39.18 425,494.80 0.88% S
NUE 670346105 NUCOR CORP 2,609 160.89 419,762.01 0.87% S
GNTX 371901109 GENTEX CORP 13,430 31.20 419,016.00 0.87% S
VST 92840M102 VISTRA CORP 5,869 71.12 417,403.28 0.87% S
AMAT 038222105 APPLIED MATERIALS INC 2,002 206.47 413,352.94 0.86% S
PVH 693656100 PVH CORP 4,122 100.05 412,406.10 0.86% S
DPZ 25754A201 DOMINO'S PIZZA INC 976 417.45 407,431.20 0.85% S
MPC 56585A102 MARATHON PETROLEUM CORP 2,346 172.65 405,036.90 0.84% S
NVDA 67066G104 NVIDIA CORP 3,580 113.06 404,754.80 0.84% S
COP 20825C104 CONOCOPHILLIPS 3,584 110.86 397,322.24 0.82% S
QCOM 747525103 QUALCOMM INC 2,190 180.05 394,309.50 0.82% S
OLN 680665205 OLIN CORP 8,628 44.59 384,722.52 0.80% S
WYNN 983134107 WYNN RESORTS LTD 4,688 81.61 382,587.68 0.79% S
BBWI 070830104 BATH & BODY WORKS INC 10,930 34.17 373,478.10 0.77% S
PBF 69318G106 PBF ENERGY INC-CLASS A 8,277 40.46 334,887.42 0.69% S
X9USDBLYT BLACKROCK TREASURY TRUST INSTL 62 138,130.75 1.00 138,130.75 0.29% MM
CASH 136,601.62 100.00 136,601.62 0.28% CA
Holdings and allocations are subject to risks and to change. A holding identified with an “MM” at the end of its name indicates it is a Money Market fund.

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Fees & Expenses

Management Fee 0.70%
Total Annual Operating Expenses 1.05%
Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement* -0.15%
Total Annual Operating Expenses After Waiver/Reimbursement 0.90%

*The Advisor has contractually agreed to keep net expenses from exceeding 0.90% of the Fund’s average daily net assets for at least one year from the date of the prospectus. For more information, please read the full prospectus.

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Fund Distributions

  • Before investing you should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. This and other information is in the prospectus, a copy of which may be obtained by visiting the Fund’s website at www.AdvisorShares.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest. Foreside Fund Services, LLC, Distributor. 
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  • The Fund’s investment focus follows a core philosophy that corporate insiders know their companies best.  The Advisor believes that insider buying and stock buyback programs not only show that corporate insiders see relative value in investing in their own company’s equity securities, but also create favorable market conditions by reducing public equity float (i.e., the share supply available to investors on the public secondary market).  The Advisor allocates the Fund’s portfolio using research from a disciplined and quantitative proprietary model, the U.S. Insiders Edge Model, developed by Qubed Capital, LLC. In utilizing the model, the Advisor seeks to remove emotion from day-to-day decision-making by following a systematic process.
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  • The Fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by primarily investing in a portfolio of U.S. traded companies selected from a universe of the largest 3,000 U.S. equity securities based on market capitalization. When models and data prove to be incorrect or incomplete, any decisions made in reliance thereon expose the Fund to potential risks. In addition, the use of predictive models has inherent risk.
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  • Definitions   
    A buyback occurs when a company repurchases its own shares from the marketplace, reducing the number of shares outstanding.
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  • Equity float is the portion of a company’s outstanding shares that is in the hands of public investors, as opposed to company officers, directors, or stockholders that hold controlling interests that have trading restrictions.
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  • Float shrink is a reduction in the number of a company’s shares available for trading.
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  • Free cash flow represents the cash a company generates after accounting for cash outflows to support operations and maintain its capital assets. It is a measure of profitability and represents the cash available for the company to repay creditors and pay out dividends and interest to investors.
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  • An insider is an officer, director, executive, entity, or individual that owns more than 10% of a publicly traded company’s shares.
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  • Insider buying is the legal purchase of shares in a firm by a corporate insider that is not based on non-public, material information and follows the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and reporting requirements. 
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  • Insider trading is the illegal trading a publicly traded company’s security by anyone who has non-public, material information about that security before the information becomes public.