The investment seeks long-term capital growth; income is a secondary consideration. In selecting stocks for the fund, the managers use quantitative and qualitative management techniques in a multi-step process. The managers evaluate stocks, primarily large capitalization, publicly traded U.S. companies based on an objective set of measures, including valuation, quality, growth, and sentiment. The portfolio managers use quantitative models to build a portfolio of stocks from the ranking that they believe will provide the optimal balance between risk and expected return.
For Mutual Funds, the calculations for the Smart Score, Analyst Consensus, Price Target, Blogger Sentiment, News Sentiment and Insider Transactions are based on the weighted average of the Mutual Fund's holdings and some additional factors. Hedge Fund Trend, Crowd Wisdom and Technicals are based on the actual Mutual Fund ticker.