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Quality Companies at Attractive Prices: VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT)

August 18, 2023

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MOAT follows a simple philosophy: find quality companies, buy them when they’re undervalued and sell when they’re overvalued. Powered by Morningstar’s equity research, this approach has resulted in MOAT’s outperformance of the S&P 500 over the past 10 years.

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An investment in the VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF may be subject to risks which include, among others, risks related to investing in equity securities, consumer discretionary sector, health care sector, industrials sector, information technology sector, financials sector, medium-capitalization companies, market, operational, high portfolio turnover, index tracking, authorized participant concentration, no guarantee of active trading market, trading issues, passive management, fund shares trading, premium/discount risk and liquidity of fund shares, non-diversification and index-related concentration risks, all of which may adversely affect the Fund. Medium-capitalization companies may be subject to elevated risks.

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