MOTBX — MainStay Epoch U.S. Small Cap Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-23
MOTBX — MainStay Epoch U.S. Small Cap Fund. United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity · $343.12M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
MOTBX Fund Overview
MOTBX — MainStay Epoch U.S. Small Cap Fund is a US mutual fund managed by New York Life Investments Funds Trust, categorised as United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: New York Life Investments Funds Trust
- Category: United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $343.12M
- 1-year return: 23.5%
- Ticker: MOTBX
- SEC CIK: 0001469192
- SEC series ID: S000036715
- Share class ID: C000112266
MOTBX Investment Objective and Strategy
MainStay Epoch U.S. Small Cap Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by New York Life Investments Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in securities of small-cap companies.
Principal investment strategy
"The Fund normally invests at least 80% of its assets (net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of U.S. companies with market capitalizations at the time of investment of $6 billion or less, which include common stocks, securities convertible into common stock and exchange traded funds (""ETFs"") whose underlying securities are issued by small capitalization companies. The Fund may also invest in mid-cap stocks. Securities of U.S. companies are those traded primarily in the U.S. securities markets. Investment Process: Epoch Investment Partners, Inc., the Fund's Subadvisor, invests primarily in companies that generate increasing levels of free cash flow and have managements that allocate it effectively to create shareholder value. The security selection process focuses on free-cash-flow analytics as opposed to traditional accounting-based metrics.
The Subadvisor seeks to identify companies with a consistent, straightforward ability to both generate free cash flow and to intelligently allocate it among internal reinvestment opportunities, acquisitions, dividends, share repurchases and/or debt reduction. The Subadvisor may sell or reduce a position in a security when it believes its investment objectives have been met or if the investment thesis is failing to materialize. The Subadvisor may also sell or reduce a position in a security when the security is deemed less attractive relative to another security on a return/risk basis."
MOTBX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of MainStay Epoch U.S. Small Cap Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Xometry, Inc. | 3.34% |
| Enova International, Inc. | 2.59% |
| Lundin Mining Corp. | 2.56% |
| Kaiser Aluminum Corp. | 2.46% |
| Laureate Education, Inc. | 2.44% |
| Fortrea Holdings, Inc. | 2.22% |
| DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. | 2.20% |
| Blue Bird Corp. | 2.18% |
| Hexcel Corp. | 2.18% |
| Integer Holdings Corp. | 2.05% |
MOTBX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of MainStay Epoch U.S. Small Cap Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.6% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.2% |
| Other | 0.2% |
MOTBX Performance
Total returns for MOTBX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 23.5% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 4.1% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 3.5% |
MOTBX Risk Information
Risk metrics for MOTBX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 20.0%
MOTBX Costs and Fees
MOTBX costs about $224 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 2.24%
- Gross expense ratio: 2.46%
- Portfolio turnover: 77%
- Brokerage commissions: 9.70 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
MOTBX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-04, MainStay Epoch U.S. Small Cap Fund had net outflows of $51.67M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | −$562.38K |
| 2026-03 | −$2.11M |
| 2026-02 | −$22.65M |
| 2026-01 | −$889.51K |
| 2025-12 | $3.88M |
| 2025-11 | −$4.05M |
MOTBX Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in MainStay Epoch U.S. Small Cap Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
MOTBX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official MainStay Epoch U.S. Small Cap Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-25
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-02-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-23
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-13
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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.