CPAI vs DYNF

CPAICCounterpoint Quantitative Equity ETF

DYNFAiShares U.S. Equity Factor Rotation Active ETF

In short

CPAI The AI here picks the stocks, it doesn't buy them. Counterpoint's machine-learning models rank US companies on 30-plus variables, then hold at least 50 of the top names equal-weighted, tilted toward small and mid caps.

DYNF Most factor funds make you pick a lane: value, momentum, quality. DYNF rotates across five styles instead, letting a factor model decide which one leads, and charges an index-fund-ish 0.26% to do it.

Stated mandate

CPAI The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.

DYNF The Fund seeks to outperform the U.S. equity market through diversified, tactical exposure to style factors using a factor rotation model.

Why people hold it

• CPAI The models weigh more than 30 inputs spanning value, long-term reversal, momentum, profitability, investor sentiment and price stability, and retrain at each quarterly rebalance.sec.govcounterpointfunds.com
• Equal weighting, a floor of 50 holdings, and a target of no more than 35% in any one sector stop a single stock or hot sector from running the portfolio.counterpointfunds.com
• A small and mid cap tilt sets it apart in a peer group crowded with large-cap core products like DFAU, FELC and AVLC.counterpointfunds.com

• DYNF Five style factors in one ticket (value, quality, momentum, growth, low volatility), reweighted by a rotation model rather than locked to a single tilt.
• 0.26% is well under half the median fee in its active US equity peer group, which is unusual pricing for a strategy with a human-supervised model behind it.
• A multi-billion-dollar fund and one of the more actively traded names in its category, so getting in and out rarely becomes the hard part. Pays quarterly.
• Running since 2019 under one of the biggest ETF shops, and it stands among the strongest overall implementations in the active US equity group we track.

Worth knowing

• CPAI At 0.75% a year it costs more than the typical active US equity ETF, and far more than cheap core rivals such as DFAU (0.12%) and FELC (0.18%).
• Holdings come from proprietary models refined through backtesting, so you can't check any position against a published rulebook the way you can with an index fund.sec.gov
• Launched in 2023, so the live record is short, and an equal-weighted small and mid cap book can behave very differently from a large-cap benchmark.counterpointfunds.com

• DYNF The yardstick isn't the S&P 500: it's a custom blend of 80% MSCI USA and 20% MSCI USA Minimum Volatility, so a low-vol tilt is baked into the benchmark itself.
• Active by design. The factor mix shifts, the book runs to a couple hundred stocks, and a rotation call can leave it out of step with a plain US market index fund.
• Cheap for active, not the cheapest shelf: systematic peers DFAU (0.12%), AVLC (0.15%), DFAC (0.17%) and FELC (0.18%) all undercut it on fee.

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