Indexperts Quality Earnings Focused ETF

Indexperts Quality Earnings Focused ETF (QIDX) is an actively managed fund holding about 131 US stocks that its adviser picks for steady or growing earnings, drawn from four in-house Indexperts indexes. It leans toward large value-style companies, with smaller slices of growth, mid-size and small companies. Its 0.50% expense ratio is well above the 0.21% average of similar quality-focused funds, and it is young and small, with about $39 million in assets as of July 31, 2026.

• Over the year to Oct 27, 2026, QIDX returned +6.4%, 6th of 7 among similar funds.
• The deepest fall in its price history was 15% (Feb 6, 2025 to Apr 8, 2025), recovered by Jul 1, 2025.

As of Jul 31, 2026, the fund held 131 securities; the ten largest made up 24.97% of assets.

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• Over the three months to Jul 31, 2026, investors withdrew a net $688K (creations minus redemptions, per the N-PORT report).
• Monthly total returns reported for that quarter: +0.06%, +3.38%, +0.10%.

QIDX does not try to match an index. Its adviser, Indexperts LLC, puts at least 80% of net assets in common stocks of companies it believes have a consistent record of stable or growing earnings. It builds the portfolio from four indexes it designed itself. The target mix is 50% from the Indexperts Large Cap Core Value Index, 20% from the Large Cap Core Growth Index, 15% from the Mid Cap Consistent Value Index and 15% from the Small Cap Consistent Value Index. The adviser can change these targets, its sector weights or individual stocks whenever it chooses.

The large-cap indexes start with the 350 largest actively traded stocks priced between $5 and $5,000. They leave out REITs, master limited partnerships and business development companies. Stocks are then screened for quality (profits, cash flow above reported earnings, falling debt, no new share issuance), earnings (revenue growth, steady earnings, above-average return on invested capital) and consistency (smaller past declines, a record of beating analyst forecasts). The value index also excludes stocks with a beta above 1.25. Beta measures how much a stock tends to swing compared with the market. Indexperts keeps the exact scoring weights and selection formula private.

As of July 31, 2026, the top 10 holdings made up about 25% of assets, led by Arista Networks (3.84%), Alphabet (3.25%), Thermo Fisher Scientific (2.79%) and Cisco Systems (2.73%). The fund held no derivatives and 1.7% in cash. Its portfolio turnover was 22.21%.

• QIDX charges 0.5% a year, versus an average of 0.21% for the similar funds below (7th of 7, cheapest first).
• Using the prospectus's standard example, $10,000 invested would cost about $51 in the first year and $628 over 10 years (assuming a 5% annual return).

The fund has been fairly calm so far, but it is small, actively managed, more expensive than similar funds and has less than two years of history, so it may fit better beside a core holding than as one.

QIDX could add a spread of US stocks with a tilt toward profitable companies with steady earnings. Its record is short. It launched on January 2, 2025, so it has no history through the 2008, 2020 or 2022 downturns. Its deepest drop was 15%, from February 6 to April 8, 2025, and it had recovered by July 1, 2025, about 2.8 months later. In its one full calendar year, 2025, it returned 8.03%. For the year through October 27, 2026, it swung less than the market (beta of 0.64) but returned 6.4%, behind five of the six similar funds. Anyone who may need to sell shares in a bad year has little history to go on. Income is modest: a 1.03% trailing yield, paid quarterly. In the SEC's standard $10,000 example, costs come to $51 after one year and $628 after 10. Past results don't predict future ones, and a plan should look at the whole portfolio, not one fund.

Matched by closest holdings overlap from the latest N-PORT reports (no similar fund shares 20% or more of its holdings).