Miller Value Partners Appreciation ETF
$35.62−0.37 (−1.04%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $71M
- 1Y return
- +2.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.52%
- Holdings
- 37
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $35.79
- 52W range
The ETF.net MVPA Grade
Score 24 of 100 sits in the F band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.DScore 35Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 6Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 11Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 34Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 42Category rank
Our read on MVPA
FA boutique stock-picker's take on value: no index to hug, just a capital-appreciation mandate and a manager's judgment, in an ETF wrapper since 2024. You pay active-manager pricing for the privilege.
The Fund seeks capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely active. The stated objective is plain capital appreciation, so the manager picks stocks rather than tracking a rules-based value screen.
- At 0.60%, the fee sits a whisker above the 0.55% median for active value funds. Boutique active management, priced near the middle of that pack.
- Appreciation-first by design. Distributions come once or twice a year at most, not monthly. This is a growth-of-capital mandate, not an income one.
Worth knowing
- That 0.60% is four to five times what the top-rated systematic value funds charge (WTV at 0.12%, AVLV at 0.15%). The stock picking has to earn that gap back.
- Thinly traded. Limit orders matter here, and a large order can push the price around more than it would in a household-name value ETF.
- Launched in 2024, so the record is short, and price swings have run wider than those of the typical fund in its value peer group.
MVPA Holdings
- Stocks
- 37
- 49%
- CRGY
Sectors
- Consumer Discr.28.0%
- Financials21.9%
- Energy11.5%
- Industrials9.8%
- Technology9.6%
- Communication8.6%
- Cons. Staples5.3%
- Real Estate2.6%
- Health Care2.6%
Geography
- United States95.53%
- Uruguay4.47%
MVPA Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | MVPA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.4% |
| 1 month | −4.9% |
| 3 months | +9.3% |
| 1 year | +2.1% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | MVPA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.4% | |
| 2025 | −2.9% | |
| 2024 | +40.7% |
MVPA in the news
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MVPA Dividends
- 0.52%
- $0.19
- $0.19 per share
- Irregular
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.32 |
MVPA Risk
- 21.5%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.67
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −25.9%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.07
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MVPA Cost
- The middle half of US Active Value funds
- Median 0.55%
42 of the 66 US Active Value funds charge less.