Flexshares International Quality Etf Profile
FlexShares International is trading at 20.60 as of the 31st of January 2025, a No Change since the beginning of the trading day. The etf's lowest day price was 20.6. The performance scores are derived for the period starting the 3rd of September 2024 and ending today, the 31st of January 2025. Click here to learn more.
FlexShares Etf Highlights
| Thematic Ideas | (View all Themes) |
| Business Concentration | Strategy ETFs, High Dividend Yield ETFs, Foreign Large Value, Flexshares Trust (View all Sectors) |
| Issuer | Northern Trust |
| Inception Date | 2013-04-12 |
| Benchmark | Northern Trust International Quality Dividend Defensive Index |
| Entity Type | Regulated Investment Company |
| Asset Under Management | 18.63 Million |
| Average Trading Valume | 6,578.4 |
| Asset Type | Equity |
| Category | Strategy |
| Focus | High Dividend Yield |
| Market Concentration | Blended Development |
| Region | Global ex-U.S. |
| Administrator | J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
| Advisor | Northern Trust Investments, Inc. |
| Custodian | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
| Distributor | Foreside Fund Services, LLC |
| Portfolio Manager | Robert Anstine, Brendan Sullivan |
| Transfer Agent | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
| Fiscal Year End | 31-May |
| Exchange | NYSE Arca, Inc. |
| Number of Constituents | 23.0 |
| Market Maker | Jane Street |
| Total Expense | 0.48 |
| Management Fee | 0.47 |
| Country Name | USA |
| Returns Y T D | 1.27 |
| Name | FlexShares International Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund |
| Currency Code | USD |
| Open Figi | BBG004FKXRB2 |
| In Threey Volatility | 15.0 |
| 1y Volatility | 8.47 |
| 200 Day M A | 21.9961 |
| 50 Day M A | 21.1838 |
| Code | IQDE |
| Updated At | 31st of January 2025 |
| Currency Name | US Dollar |
FlexShares International Quality [IQDE] is traded in USA and was established 2013-04-12. The fund is listed under Foreign Large Value category and is part of Flexshares Trust family. The entity is thematically classified as Strategy ETFs. FlexShares International currently have 40.55 M in assets under management (AUM). , while the total return for the last 3 years was 1.6%.
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Sector Allocation
Investors will always prefer to have their portfolios divercified against different sectors. The broad sector allocation increases the possibility of making a profit or at least avoiding a loss. However, this may also reduce the expected return on FlexShares Etf. Generally, it depends on diversification level and type but usually, the broader the sector allocation, the less risk can be expected from holding FlexShares Etf, and the less return is expected.
Institutional investors that are interested in enforcing a sector tilt in their portfolio can use exchange-traded funds, such as FlexShares International Quality Etf, as a low-cost alternative to building a custom portfolio. So, using sector ETFs to diversify your portfolio can be a profitable strategy. However, no matter what sectors are desirable at a given time, no single industry should ever make up more than 20 percent of your stock portfolio.
FlexShares International Currency Exposure
FlexShares International Quality holds assets that are exposed to currency risk. As an investor, you have to ensure that the increase in value or dividend from foreign constituents of FlexShares International will not be offset by an unfavorable exchange rate and will not cancel out the return on assets from different countries. In other words, assess how much of your investment depends on the development of foreign currencies before you invest in FlexShares International Quality.
Top FlexShares International Quality Etf Constituents
| Novolipetsk Steel PAO | 0% |
| Sberbank Rossii PAO | 0% |
| NK Lukoil PAO | 0% |
| Magnitogorskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat PAO | 0% |
| Public Joint Stock Company Severstal | 0% |
| Surgut-pref | 0% |
| Moskovskaya Birzha OAO | 0% |
FlexShares International Risk Profiles
The market premium is part of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), which most analysts and investors use to calculate the acceptable rate of return on investment in FlexShares International. At the center of the CAPM is the concept of risk and reward, which is usually communicated by investors using alpha and beta measures.
| Risk Adjusted Performance | (0.09) | |||
| Jensen Alpha | (0.08) | |||
| Total Risk Alpha | (0.16) | |||
| Treynor Ratio | 1.63 |
FlexShares International Against Markets
FlexShares International Related Equities
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| Risk & Return | Correlation |
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The market value of FlexShares International is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of FlexShares that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of FlexShares International's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is FlexShares International's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because FlexShares International's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect FlexShares International's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between FlexShares International's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if FlexShares International is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, FlexShares International's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.