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Active ETF

Putnam Focused Large Cap Growth ETF (Class A)  (PGRO)

Investing in companies with durable growth themes

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This ETF is different from traditional ETFs. Traditional ETFs tell the public what assets they hold each day. This ETF will not. This may create additional risks for your investment. For example:

  • You may have to pay more money to trade the ETF's shares. This ETF will provide less information to traders, who tend to charge more for trades when they have less information.
  • The price you pay to buy ETF shares on an exchange may not match the value of the ETF's portfolio. The same is true when you sell shares. These price differences may be greater for this ETF compared with other ETFs because it provides less information to traders.
  • These additional risks may be even greater in bad or uncertain market conditions.
  • The ETF will publish on its website each day a Tracking Basket designed to help trading in shares of the ETF. While the Tracking Basket includes some of the ETF's holdings, it is not the ETF's actual portfolio.

The differences between this ETF and other ETFs may also have advantages. By keeping certain information about the ETF secret, this ETF may face less risk that other traders can predict or copy its investment strategy. This may improve the ETF's performance. If other traders are able to copy or predict the ETF's investment strategy, however, this may hurt the ETF's performance.

For additional information regarding the unique attributes and risks of the ETF, see disclosure below and the Principal Investment Risks section of the prospectus.

Shares of any ETF are bought and sold at market price (not NAV), may trade at a discount or premium to NAV, and are not individually redeemed from the fund. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.

The funds have limited public-trading history and will operate differently from other actively managed ETFs that publish their portfolio holdings on a daily basis.

NAV as of 03/18/24

$32.34

Market data all data below as of 03/18/24

Closing market price $32.36
30-day median bid-ask spread 0.09%
Day high $32.58
Day low $32.36
Premium/Discount 0.05%
30-day average trading volume 12,875
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ETF facts as of 02/29/24

Ticker
PGRO
Intraday NAV Ticker
PGROIV
CUSIP
746729409
Inception date
05/25/21
Total net assets
$61.83M
Total expense ratio
0.56%
Open to new investors
Category
Growth
Turnover (fiscal year-end)
45%
Dividend frequency
Annually
Number of holdings
36
Fiscal year-end
August

Objective

Putnam Focused Large Cap Growth ETF seeks capital appreciation.

Strategy and process

  • Seeks above-average growthThe fund focuses on businesses that exhibit both a high level of growth and an above-average duration of growth.
  • A thematic approachWe combine top-down investment themes with bottom-up research to select securities that can benefit from growth trends.
  • Ownership cultureBacked by fundamental research, the managers seek out companies with management teams that act like owners.

Management team

Richard E. Bodzy

Portfolio Manager

16 years in industry

15 years at Putnam Investments

See full profile

Gregory D. McCullough, CFA

Portfolio Manager

16 years in industry

5 years at Putnam Investments

See full profile

Literature

Fund information

Fact Sheet (PDF)
Annual Report (PDF)
Semiannual Report (PDF)

Legal documents

Prospectuses/SAI

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Performance

  • Total return (%) as of 12/31/23

Annualized Total return (%) as of 12/31/23

Annualized performance 1 yr. 3 yrs. 5 yrs. Life (inception: 05/25/21 )
Net asset value 45.03% -- -- 5.94%
Market price 45.19% -- -- 5.96%
Russell 1000 Growth Index 42.68%8.86%19.50%--

Current performance may be lower or higher than the quoted past performance, which cannot guarantee future results. Share price, principal value, and return will vary, and you may have a gain or loss when you sell your shares. Performance assumes reinvestment of distributions and does not account for taxes. Returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized. Market performance is determined using the bid/ask midpoint at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Market performance does not represent the returns you would receive if you traded shares at other times throughout the day.

Shares of any ETF are bought and sold at market price (not NAV), may trade at a discount or premium to NAV, and are not individually redeemed from the fund. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.

 

Performance snapshot

  Net asset value Market price
1 mt. as of 02/29/24 7.43% 7.41%
YTD as of 03/18/24 11.72% 11.72%

Distributions

Record date 12/07/23
Ex-date 12/06/23
Payable date 12/11/23
Income $0.0542
Extra income --
Short-term cap. gain --
Long-term cap. gain --

Historical premium/discount

Number of days at premium --
Number of days at NAV --
Number of days at discount --

Holdings

Microsoft Corp 12.77%
Apple 8.94%
Nvidia Corp 8.79%
Amazon.Com 8.32%
Alphabet 4.98%
Meta Platforms 3.74%
Broadcom 3.42%
Eli Lilly 3.23%
Mastercard 2.84%
Costco Wholesale Corp 2.57%
Top 10 holdings, percent of portfolio 59.60%



Tracking Basket information as of 03/18/24

Tracking Basket Export to Excel
Tracking Basket overlap 85.68%

The Tracking Basket methodology maintains confidentiality of a portfolio's securities and trading strategies by disclosing a "tracking basket" composed of select recently disclosed portfolio holdings, liquid U.S. ETFs that convey information about the types of instruments in which the fund invests, and cash and cash equivalents. This Tracking Basket is disclosed daily and is used to facilitate the creation and redemption process with Authorized Participants (APs). Actual portfolio holdings for the Putnam ETFs will be disclosed on Putnam.com within eight business days following calendar quarter-end.

Sector weightings as of 02/29/24

Information technology 46.80%
Consumer discretionary 15.67%
Health care 9.79%
Communication services 9.63%
Financials 4.99%
Industrials 4.20%
Cash and net other assets 3.06%
Consumer staples 2.57%
Real estate 2.20%
 
Other
1.09%
Materials 1.09%

Sectors will vary over time.

Equity statistics as of 02/29/24

Median market cap $220.25B
Weighted average market cap $1,284.83B
Price to book 13.38
Price to earnings 32.97

The Russell 1000® Growth Index is an unmanaged index of those companies in the large-cap Russell 1000® Index chosen for their growth orientation. You cannot invest directly in an index.

Consider these risks before investing: Growth stocks may be more susceptible to earnings disappointments, and the market may not favor growth-style investing. The value of investments in the fund’s portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general economic, political, or financial market conditions; investor sentiment and market perceptions; government actions; geopolitical events or changes; and factors related to a specific issuer, geography, industry, or sector. These and other factors may lead to increased volatility and reduced liquidity in the fund’s portfolio holdings. From time to time, the fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in companies in one or more related industries or sectors, which would make the fund more vulnerable to adverse developments affecting those industries or sectors. Our investment techniques, analyses, and judgments may not produce the outcome we intend. The investments we select for the fund may not perform as well as other securities that we do not select for the fund. We, or the fund’s other service providers, may experience disruptions or operating errors that could have a negative effect on the fund. You can lose money by investing in the fund.