IQGR — Astoria International Quality Growth Kings ETF

IQGR Fund Overview

IQGR — Astoria International Quality Growth Kings ETF is a US ETF managed by EA Series Trust, categorised as Japan Growth Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US ETF
• Manager: EA Series Trust
• Category: Japan Growth Equity
• Ticker: IQGR
• SEC CIK: 0001592900
• SEC series ID: S000088110
• Share class ID: C000254161

IQGR Investment Objective and Strategy

Astoria International Quality Growth Kings ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by EA Series Trust.

Investment objective

The Astoria International Quality Growth Kings ETF (the Fund) seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in common stock and depositary receipts of issuers outside the U.S. that the Funds sub-adviser, Astoria Portfolio Advisors, LLC (the Sub-Adviser) believes have the potential for growth. The Funds investments in depositary receipts may include American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), European Depositary Receipts (EDRs) and Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs). The Funds investments in ADRs may be sponsored or unsponsored. A sponsored depositary receipt is issued by a depositary which has an exclusive relationship with the issuer of the underlying security. An unsponsored depositary receipt may be issued by any number of depositaries.

Under the terms of most sponsored arrangements, depositaries agree to distribute notices of shareholder meetings and voting instructions, and to provide shareholder communications and other information to the depositary receipts holders at the request of the issuer of the deposited securities. The depositary of an unsponsored depositary receipts, on the other hand, is under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications received from the issuer of the deposited securities or to pass through voting rights to depositary receipts holders in respect of the deposited securities. The Funds investments may include both U.S. dollar denominated and non-U.S. dollar denominated securities. The Fund seeks to invest in companies that exhibit robust quality and growth characteristics across sectors and countries.

The Sub-Adviser defines a robust quality company as a company with higher than median return on equity, return on assets and return on invested capital compared to its sector and country peers (i.e., companies operating within the same sector from the same country). In addition, the Sub-Adviser defines a growth company as a company with higher than median price/earnings, sales or, earnings growth compared to sector and country peers. In addition, the Sub-Adviser believes growth companies generally demonstrate strong growth potential through development of new products, technologies and/or have a strong industry or market position. The Fund is not managed to mirror a particular securities index or securities benchmark. Rather, the Sub-Adviser uses a quantitative and systematic approach to select securities for the Fund.

The Sub-Adviser constructs the Funds portfolio by evaluating all of the securities in an investment universe comprised of the common stock (including depositary receipts associated with such common stocks) of publicly traded large- and mid- capitalization companies (defined by the Sub-Adviser as companies with a market capitalization of at least $5 billion) located in developed markets that satisfy the Sub-Advisers liquidity and growth criteria. The Sub-Advisers growth criteria focus on companies with higher-than-median price/earnings, sales or, earnings growth compared to sector and country peers (i.e., companies operating within the same sector from the same country). The Sub-Adviser believes these companies generally demonstrate strong growth potential through development of new products, technologies and/or have a strong industry or market position.

The Sub-Adviser requires each company to maintain a minimum level of liquidity of at least $15 million US dollars in average trading volumes over the past six months . Developed countries, as it relates to this Fund, include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will maintain exposure to at least three of these developed countries. The Sub-Adviser may update the list of developed countries as deemed appropriate. The Fund does not intend to invest in companies located in emerging markets. In addition, the Fund will exclude the United States. Proprietary quantitative screens developed by the Sub-Adviser are used to rank such stocks according to their quality and growth metrics relative to the median of their sector and country peers.

The Sub-Adviser uses a variety of metrics in its discretion to evaluate each stock for each of these factors, including return on equity, return on investment capital, price-to-earnings-growth ratio, estimate revisions, projected growth estimates, and earnings momentum. These factors are subject to change over time. The Sub-Adviser believes that companies with greater than median return on equity, return on investment capital, projected growth rates and/or lower than median price-to-earnings-growth ratio relative to their sector and/or country peers are good indicators of companys investment merit. In addition, the Sub-Adviser believes positive revisions to earnings estimates are generally a sign of potential attractive growth. Momentum investing aims to capitalize on the continuance of an existing market trend (e.g., positive and accelerating growth of earnings).

The metrics used to evaluate each factor vary by sector based on the Sub-Advisers assessment of which metric(s) have historically provided the best measure of that factor. A weighted average rank across each factor is then calculated and up to 250 of the top ranked stocks are selected for the Fund. The number of stocks selected will vary based on the Sub-Advisers decision to overweight or underweight sectors and countries in accordance with its assessment of the markets at the time of screening and to maintain diversification in the Funds portfolio. The Fund does not have a policy to invest in a certain number of developed countries, but it will maintain exposure to at least three different countries at all times, except during periods where it has taken a temporary defensive position. In addition, the Fund is not required to allocate its investments in set percentages to particular countries.

All stocks in the portfolio are monitored daily by the Sub-Adviser. In addition, the Sub-Advisers quantitative screens are reviewed on a quarterly basis to monitor the ranking of the stocks according to their quality and growth metrics. The Fund will sell or reduce positions according to changes in the Sub-Advisers proprietary rankings. The screens may be reapplied more frequently if there are material changes to earnings, valuations, or economic trends (i.e., an accelerating economy) believed by the Sub-Adviser to likely have an impact on the Funds portfolio. While it is anticipated that the Fund will invest across a range of industries, certain sectors or countries may be overweighted relative to its benchmark because the Sub-Adviser seeks the best investment opportunities regardless of sector and country in its discretion based on its assessment of the markets.

IQGR Costs and Fees

IQGR costs about $58 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.58%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.58%

IQGR Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Astoria International Quality Growth Kings ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

IQGR Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Astoria International Quality Growth Kings ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-09-24
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-09-27
• Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2026-08-06

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Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.