Barron’s 400 ETF Finds Growth at a Reasonable Price in Mid-Caps, Housing

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Barron's 400 ETF (NYSE Arca: BFOR), a smart beta exchange-traded fund that seeks to track the Barron’s 400 Index (B400), has completed its semi-annual rebalance based on the reconstitution and equal weighting of its underlying benchmark. The rules-based and fundamentals-driven B400 was designed to give investors a means of tracking some of America’s highest-performing companies based on the strength of their financial statements and the attractiveness of their share prices. Launched in 2007, B400 was jointly developed by Barron’s, America’s premier financial magazine, and MarketGrader, an independent equity research and indexing firm with a proprietary fundamental methodology. To maintain B400’s growth at a reasonable price (GARP) investment philosophy, the Index is reconstituted and rebalanced twice a year, ensuring B400 is composed of the top-ranked stocks from the universe of U.S. equities regardless of sector or market capitalization.