JAVA vs WTV

JAVABJPMorgan Active Value ETF

WTVAWisdomTree U.S. Value Fund

In short

JAVA JPMorgan's value team picks roughly 160 cheap-looking companies, sector by sector, and keeps the portfolio style-pure instead of drifting toward growth. Active stock picking priced below the typical active value fund.

WTV Most value funds shop for low price tags. WTV shops for cash coming back to shareholders: dividends plus net buybacks, filtered for quality and profitability. Actively run, priced like an index fund at 0.12%.

Stated mandate

JAVA JAVA seeks long-term capital appreciation through an actively managed, style-pure value equity portfolio. It uses fundamental, bottom-up research to identify attractively valued companies within sectors and draws on JPMorgan’s U.S. Value and Large Cap Value approaches.

WTV The fund seeks income and capital appreciation through primarily U.S. equities selected for high total shareholder yield and favorable relative quality characteristics.

Why people hold it

• JAVA Charges 0.44% a year against a 0.55% median for active value funds. Human stock picking without the usual active-management markup.
• Style-pure by design: bottom-up research favors the cheaper names inside each sector, so the portfolio stays value rather than sliding toward growth.jpmorgan.com
• About 160 holdings measured against the Russell 1000 Value Index: spread out enough to blunt single-stock blowups, tight enough for the picks to register.
• A multi-billion-dollar fund that sits in the top quartile of its active value peer group, paying distributions quarterly.

• WTV Charges 0.12% a year, under a quarter of the 0.55% typical for active US value funds, and less than every same-benchmark rival in its group (JAVA 0.44%, CGVV 0.33%, TEQI 0.54%).
• "Value" here means cash returned: dividend yield plus net buyback yield, with quality and profitability screens, rather than a plain low price-to-book sort.wisdomtree.com
• About 160 US stocks, a multi-billion-dollar asset base, and a live track record dating to 2007. Distributions land quarterly.

Worth knowing

• JAVA Systematic value rivals cost far less, with AVLV at 0.15% and DFLV at 0.21%. The extra fee buys human judgment, which can trail the benchmark as easily as beat it.
• Moderately traded rather than a volume heavyweight, so spreads can run wider than the largest index value funds.
• Live since 2021, so the ETF's own record is short, though it leans on JPMorgan's longer-running U.S. Value and Large Cap Value approaches.

• WTV Full equity with no downside cushion, and a value tilt that can lean into a handful of sectors. Risk is the least polished part of the profile.
• Rules-based active, not an index tracker, so results can diverge from the Russell 1000 Value in either direction.
• Buybacks supply much of the shareholder yield, and companies can scale repurchases back more easily than they cut dividends.wisdomtree.com

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