Kevin O’Leary says “Thanks a Billion,” as AUM Passes $1.0 Billion for O’Shares ETFs, While Posting a Strong Five-year Track Record for its Flagship ETF, OUSA.
OShares ETFs announced AUM across its set of ETFs growing past $1.0 billion, while posting a strong five-year track record for its flagship ETF, OUSA (OShares U.S. Quality Dividend ETF).
O’Shares ETFs announced AUM across its set of ETFs growing past $1.0 billion, while posting a strong five-year track record for its flagship ETF, OUSA (O’Shares U.S. Quality Dividend ETF). Since inception in July 2015, OUSA generated 10.9% annualized, outperforming value1 that generated 5.9%, as of 8/31/2020. View the standardized performance for OUSA.
With the economy in recession, equity income investors may be at risk of dividend cuts or suspensions in their portfolios. Dividend quality matters more today than it has in a long time. OUSA holds approximately 100 dividend paying stocks, selected for profitability, strong balance sheets and dividend quality. Investors are using OUSA to gain exposure to high quality U.S. large-cap companies that have strong dividend growth and coverage,2 increasing the likelihood that they will be able to maintain and grow dividends paid to investors even during periods of economic uncertainty.
“We thank the advisors and investors who’ve chosen our ETFs, including OUSA, one of the best dividend strategies I’ve ever seen. Just check the performance and the portfolio. It has stocks with strong profits, strong balance sheets, and strong dividend growth. OUSA also has no energy stocks or REITs, which I’m happy not to own in this economy. Instead, OUSA has the stocks I want as we go through these tough times. I’m also invested in our quality dividend strategies for small caps using OUSM, and for Europe using OEUR, which gives me diversification and a way to own some great global companies. After lagging a few years, it could soon be time for stronger performance from small caps and Europe,” said Kevin O’Leary, Chairman of O’Shares ETFs.
“We think quality dividend strategies are more attractive than generic dividend strategies, going through the 2020 recession. Although the Fed has given the markets major support, when that fades some investors might be caught sleeping. The World Bank forecasts this recession will be the worst since World War II3. Already in 2020, markets have been tough on generic dividend strategies, because they own all the dividend stocks, essentially all those that are cutting dividends. Of the dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500, approximately 12% have announced either a cut or suspension for their next future dividend4. Leverage in the market has increased over the past few years which may put further pressure on companies that pay a dividend. Our research shows a performance advantage for stocks with strong ROA (Return on Assets)5 and strong cash flow to debt. You might wonder why investors would ever want to own the stocks with weak profits and bad balance sheets. We believe quality wins. Feedback from our distribution team is that advisors and investors have been pleased that OUSA has captured less downside than the market in stress events, yet still captured a significant portion of the upside,” said Connor O’Brien, CEO of O’Shares ETFs.
OUSA is the quality large cap strategy provided by O’Shares ETF Investments, a family of ETFs that includes OUSM, OGIG and OEUR.
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- Value: Represented by Russell 1000 Value Index. Measures the performance of those Russell 1000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.
- Coverage: Ratio which shows whether the company generates enough earnings for dividend payout.
- COVID-19 to Plunge Global Economy into Worst Recession since World War II
- Source: Bloomberg Finance L.P. Data retrieved 9/9/2020.
- ROA (Return on Assets): Indicator of how profitable a company is relative to its Total assets, in percentage. Calculated as (Trailing 12M Net Income/ Average Total Assets) x 100.
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