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What grade does SIXA get?

Morningstar rates funds on what they returned. We grade them on where their money sits today: how much of the book overlaps with the converged buys of the top specialist stock pickers.

Fundprints Fund Grade · as of 2026-09-01

ETC 6 Meridian Mega Cap Equity ETF

#74 of 440 graded active funds · blend · large segment peer group

The point · specialist footprint

SIXA puts more of its book behind proven specialists than 88% of graded funds.

Bottom 20%

Bottom 40%

Middle

Top 40%

● Top 20%

beat the S&P in 22% of quarters+3.8 pts/qtr better · 43% beat rate

That has mattered: over the past 2.7 years, funds on this rung beat bottom-rung funds by about 3.8 points per quarter, and beat the S&P in 43% of fund-quarters versus their 22%. The evidence argues this fund earns its seat.

2,825 graded funds · 2.7 years of filings, measured as they were published · evidence, not advice

You pay 0.47% a year for a A.

The grade scores this fund's specialist share — the slice that overlaps what the top 1% of proven funds are building. We ignore index ballast and names outside our edge on purpose: that slice is small, and it's what decides the outcome.

Conviction exposure

41.7%

of the book in specialist-converged names

Late-stage weight

24.5%

of the book in Crowded or Fading names

Active share

82.6%

how far it strays from the index

The best grades have beaten the worst by about +5% a year since we began grading. The gap held in 9 out of 10 months. Measured on filings as they were published, no hindsight.

Inside the book — top names by stage · as of 2026-09-09

Early Conviction

VZ 3.9%MDLZ 2.6%AMAT 1.5%+3 locked

Consensus

QCOM 3.7%NVDA 2.8%JNJ 2.6%+18 locked

Emerging

CMCSA 2.4%FDX 1.3%AXP 1.3%

Crowded

T 3.7%UBER 1.2%MDT 1.2%

Fading

MO 5%PEP 3.6%CL 2.8%+8 locked

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Graded monthly from point-in-time filings. A description of where the money sits, not a recommendation. Evidence, not advice.

The read · what to do with it

Support leaving these positions

MO 5% of the fund · Fading

T 3.7% of the fund · Crowded

PEP 3.6% of the fund · Fading

CL 2.8% of the fund · Fading

PFE 2.6% of the fund · Fading

Where it's genuinely early

VZ 3.9% of the fund · Early Conviction

MDLZ 2.6% of the fund · Early Conviction

CMCSA 2.4% of the fund · Emerging

Read from today's disclosed book. Evidence, not advice.

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