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Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF

A strategy driven exchange traded fund that aims to provide capital appreciation over time by screening the Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 Index for the top 100 international companies based on free cash flow yield.

Cash Cows Index Strategy

  • Free cash flow is the cash remaining after a company has paid expenses, interest, taxes, and long-term investments. It can be used to buy back stock, pay dividends, or participate in mergers and acquisitions.
  • The ability to generate a high free cash flow yield indicates a company is producing more cash than it needs to run the business and can invest in growth opportunities.
  • Watch to learn more about how Pacer Cash Cows Index ETFs work.


Free Cash Flow Yield Comparison

as of 12/31/2023

1. High-Quality Emerging Markets Companies
Unique focus on emerging markets companies with high free cash flow yield.

2. Trading at a Discount
Exposure to opportunities in the market where high quality stocks are trading at a discount.

3. Long-Term Capital Appreciation
Using free cash flow yield to measure the sustainability of a company may produce potentially higher returns and more attractive upside/downside capture over time.




 


 


Definitions
Free Cash Flow (FCF): A company’s cash flow from operations minus capital expenditures (expenses, interest, taxes, and long-term investments)
Enterprise Value (EV): A company’s market capitalization adjusted to eliminate any capital structure bias (i.e. by adding debt and subtracting cash or cash equivalents)
Free Cash Flow Yield: FCF/EV. Measures a company’s total free cash flow relative to its enterprise value. This is an internal statistic and does not constitute investor yield.
Upside/Downside capture: Upside/downside capture ratio show you whether a given fund has outperformed--gained more or lost less than--a broad market benchmark during periods of market strength and weakness


Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 Index Strategy Overview

An objective rules-based methodology that uses a quality screen to select top companies in the index universe.
All data as of December 2023 semi-annual rebalance.

Top 100 emerging companies with the highest free cash flow yield.

  • Weighted by free cash flow (highest trailing twelve month)
  • Holdings capped at 2% for each company at time of rebalance
  • Reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually in June and December

(1)The individual components of the index are weighted by their total market capitalization. Market capitalization is determined by multiplying each company’s market price by their total outstanding shares. Companies are ranked in descending order based on their market cap in dollars.
(2)Screened based on average projected free cash flows and earnings (if available) over each of the next two fiscal years. Companies with negative average projected free cash flows or earnings are removed from the Index universe. Financial companies, other than real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), companies with a market capitalization of less than $2 billion, and companies whose average daily trading value (“ADTV”) for the prior 90 days does not exceed $5 million are excluded from the Index universe.
(3)The three-year dividend growth is a weighted average of each company’s three-year dividends per share growth rate. The growth rate is determined by measuring the change between each company’s most recent trailing twelve-month dividends per share versus their trailing twelve-month dividend per share three years ago.
(4)Remaining 100 companies are weighted by their trailing twelve-month free cash flow. The Index is limited to a maximum of twenty companies from any country or any sector. Free cash flow weighting is calculated as a company’s operating cash flow minus capital expenditures. Companies are ranked in descending order based on their free cash flow in dollars.
P/E ratio a fundamental measure commonly used to determine if an investment is valued appropriately. Each holding’s P/E is the latest closing price divided by the latest fiscal year’s earnings per share. Negative P/E ratios are excluded from this calculation.

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Performance (%)

as of 12/31/2023

  Since Fund Inception (5/2/19) YTD 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year
Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF NAV 1.62 15.90 15.90 0.22 N/A
Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF Market Price 1.76 15.89 15.89 0.26 N/A
Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 Index 3.02 17.59 17.59 1.60 5.24
MSCI Emerging Markets Value Index2 1.74 14.21 14.21 -0.01 3.37
FTSE Emerging Markets Index 2.04 8.64 8.64 -3.57 4.40

Monthly Performance

Source: US Bank and FTSE.
(2)The Value Index listed above is being included to provide a performance comparison of a value index, which the Adviser believes is a more suitable comparison based on the investment strategy of the Fund.
Performance quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate, so shares may be worth more or less when redeemed or sold. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Visit www.paceretfs.com for the most recent month-end performance. Index returns are for illustrative purposes only. Index performance does not reflect any management fees, transaction costs or expenses. You cannot invest directly in an index.

The Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 Index was released on 12/8/16.

Top 10 Holdings (%)

as of 6/30/17

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Daily Holdings

Pacer has two funds that held securities that fall under the Executive Order 13959 restrictions.  Pacer CSOP FTSE China A 50 ETF and Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF liquidated those affected securities in order to meet the requirement as of the market open on January 11, 2021. 

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Sector Breakdown (%)

as of 6/30/2022

To view a sector's breakdown, please select a slice. To return to the total breakdown, select 'Sector Breakdown' below. Please note, the sector table below only shows total sector weights.

Sector Weight (%)

Country Breakdown  (%)

as of 6/30/2022

Country Weight (%)

Index Characteristics

as of 12/31/2023

  Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 Index FTSE Emerging Markets Index
Weighted Average Market Cap ($mil) 23,328.14 95,411.83
Dividend Yield (%) 4.79 2.34
Free Cash Flow Yield (%) 13.18 4.17
Price to Earnings (P/E) Ratio 8.24 7.48

Pacer has two funds that held securities that fall under the Executive Order 13959 restrictions.  Pacer CSOP FTSE China A 50 ETF and Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF liquidated those affected securities in order to meet the requirement as of the market open on January 11, 2021. 

Free cash flow yield measures a company’s total free cash flow relative to its enterprise value. This is an internal statistic and does not constitute investor yield. It is an internal statistic and does not constitute investor yield.
Dividend yield is calculated using the gross dividend of a security (i.e., before any applicable withholding tax). Special cash dividends, unless they are paid for three consecutive years, and capital repayments are excluded from the dividend yield calculation. There is no guarantee dividends will be paid.
Weighted average market cap is the sum of each company’s weight multiplied by its market cap.
Price to earning ratio (P/E ratio) is a fundamental measure used to determine if an investment is valued appropriately. Each holding’s P/E is the latest closing price divided by the latest fiscal year’s earnings per share. Negative P/E ratios are excluded from this calculation.
The Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 Index was released on 12/8/16.

Distributions

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Distribution Schedule

Past distributions are not indicative of future distributions.
*Ordinary income is composed mainly of wages, salaries, commissions and interest income from bonds, and it is taxable using ordinary income rates.

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