Explore the Strongholds: Moat Index Holdings Overview

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Holdings will vary for the MOAT ETF and its corresponding Index. For a complete list of holdings in the ETF, please click here: MOAT - VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF - Holdings and Performance.

An investor cannot invest directly in an index. Returns reflect past performance and do not guarantee future results. Results reflect the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains, if any. Certain indices may take into account withholding taxes. Index returns do not represent Fund returns. The Index does not charge management fees or brokerage expenses, nor does the Index lend securities, and no revenues from securities lending were added to the performance shown.

The Morningstar^® Wide Moat Focus Index^SM was created and is maintained by Morningstar, Inc. Morningstar, Inc. does not sponsor, endorse, issue, sell, or promote the VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF and bears no liability with respect to the ETF or any security. Morningstar^® is a registered trademark of Morningstar, Inc. Morningstar^® Wide Moat Focus Index^SM is a service mark of Morningstar, Inc.

Effective June 20, 2016, Morningstar implemented several changes to the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index construction rules. Among other changes, the index increased its constituent count from 20 stocks to at least 40 stocks and modified its rebalance and reconstitution methodology. These changes may result in more diversified exposure, lower turnover, and longer holding periods for index constituents than under the rules in effect prior to this date. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Morningstar^® Wide Moat Focus Index^SM:intended to track the overall performance of attractively priced companies with sustainable competitive advantages according to Morningstar's equity research team.

An investment in the VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT), the VanEck Morningstar International Moat ETF (MOTI), the VanEck Morningstar Global Wide Moat ETF (MOTG), the VanEck Morningstar ESG Moat ETF (MOTE), the VanEck Morningstar SMID Moat ETF (SMOT), the VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat Growth Moat ETF (MGRO), the VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat Value ETF (MVAL) or the VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat Fund, (collectively the "Funds") may be subject to risks which include, among others, ESG investing strategy risks, investing in the health care, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, industrials, telecommunications, information technology, financial services, small- and medium-capitalization companies, equity securities, market, operational, high portfolio turnover, index tracking and data, emerging market issuers, special risk considerations of investing in European and Asian issuers, depositary receipts, cash transactions, underlying fund, new fund, authorized participant concentration, no guarantee of active trading market, trading issues, replication management, passive management, fund shares trading, premium/discount risk and liquidity of fund shares, non-diversified, and concentration risks, which may make these investments volatile in price or difficult to trade. Small- and medium-capitalization companies may be subject to elevated risks. Foreign investments are subject to risks, which include changes in economic and political conditions, foreign currency fluctuations, changes in foreign regulations, and changes in currency exchange rates which may negatively impact the Fund's returns.

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