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Is Invesco Building & Construction ETF (PKB) a Strong ETF Right Now?
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Making its debut on 10/26/2005, smart beta exchange traded fund Invesco Building & Construction ETF (PKB - Free Report) provides investors broad exposure to the Industrials ETFs category of the market.
What Are Smart Beta ETFs?
The ETF industry has traditionally been dominated by products based on market capitalization weighted indexes that are designed to represent the market or a particular segment of the market.
Because market cap weighted indexes provide a low-cost, convenient, and transparent way of replicating market returns, they work well for investors who believe in market efficiency.
However, some investors believe in the possibility of beating the market through exceptional stock selection, and choose a different type of fund that tracks non-cap weighted strategies: smart beta.
Non-cap weighted indexes try to choose stocks that have a better chance of risk-return performance, which is based on specific fundamental characteristics, or a mix of other such characteristics.
While this space offers a number of choices to investors, including simplest equal-weighting, fundamental weighting and volatility/momentum based weighting methodologies, not all these strategies have been able to deliver superior results.
Fund Sponsor & Index
The fund is managed by Invesco, and has been able to amass over $231.26 million, which makes it one of the average sized ETFs in the Industrials ETFs. This particular fund, before fees and expenses, seeks to match the performance of the Dynamic Building & Construction Intellidex Index.
The Dynamic Building & Construction Intellidex Index is comprised of stocks of U.S. building and construction companies. The Index is designed to provide capital appreciation by thoroughly evaluating companies based on a variety of investment merit criteria, including fundamental growth, stock valuation, investment timeliness and risk factors.
Cost & Other Expenses
For ETF investors, expense ratios are an important factor when considering a fund's return; in the long-term, cheaper funds actually have the ability to outperform their more expensive cousins if all other things remain the same.
With on par with most peer products in the space, this ETF has annual operating expenses of 0.57%.
It has a 12-month trailing dividend yield of 0.20%.
Sector Exposure and Top Holdings
While ETFs offer diversified exposure, which minimizes single stock risk, a deep look into a fund's holdings is a valuable exercise. And, most ETFs are very transparent products that disclose their holdings on a daily basis.
Representing 59% of the portfolio, the fund has heaviest allocation to the Industrials sector; Materials and Consumer Discretionary round out the top three.
Taking into account individual holdings, Emcor Group Inc (EME) accounts for about 5.47% of the fund's total assets, followed by Nvr Inc (NVR) and Johnson Controls International Plc (JCI).
PKB's top 10 holdings account for about 45.95% of its total assets under management.
Performance and Risk
The ETF has added about 8.8% so far this year and was up about 13.79% in the last one year (as of 07/22/2025). In the past 52-week period, it has traded between $62.05 and $88.37
The fund has a beta of 1.25 and standard deviation of 25.52% for the trailing three-year period, which makes PKB a high risk choice in this particular space. With about 32 holdings, it has more concentrated exposure than peers .
Alternatives
Invesco Building & Construction ETF is a reasonable option for investors seeking to outperform the Industrials ETFs segment of the market. However, there are other ETFs in the space which investors could consider.
SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF(XHB) tracks S&P Homebuilders Select Industry Index The fund has $1.42 billion in assets. XHB has an expense ratio of 0.35%.
Investors looking for cheaper and lower-risk options should consider traditional market cap weighted ETFs that aim to match the returns of the Industrials ETFs
Bottom Line
To learn more about this product and other ETFs, screen for products that match your investment objectives and read articles on latest developments in the ETF investing universe, please visit Zacks ETF Center.
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Is Invesco Building & Construction ETF (PKB) a Strong ETF Right Now?
Making its debut on 10/26/2005, smart beta exchange traded fund Invesco Building & Construction ETF (PKB - Free Report) provides investors broad exposure to the Industrials ETFs category of the market.
What Are Smart Beta ETFs?
The ETF industry has traditionally been dominated by products based on market capitalization weighted indexes that are designed to represent the market or a particular segment of the market.
Because market cap weighted indexes provide a low-cost, convenient, and transparent way of replicating market returns, they work well for investors who believe in market efficiency.
However, some investors believe in the possibility of beating the market through exceptional stock selection, and choose a different type of fund that tracks non-cap weighted strategies: smart beta.
Non-cap weighted indexes try to choose stocks that have a better chance of risk-return performance, which is based on specific fundamental characteristics, or a mix of other such characteristics.
While this space offers a number of choices to investors, including simplest equal-weighting, fundamental weighting and volatility/momentum based weighting methodologies, not all these strategies have been able to deliver superior results.
Fund Sponsor & Index
The fund is managed by Invesco, and has been able to amass over $231.26 million, which makes it one of the average sized ETFs in the Industrials ETFs. This particular fund, before fees and expenses, seeks to match the performance of the Dynamic Building & Construction Intellidex Index.
The Dynamic Building & Construction Intellidex Index is comprised of stocks of U.S. building and construction companies. The Index is designed to provide capital appreciation by thoroughly evaluating companies based on a variety of investment merit criteria, including fundamental growth, stock valuation, investment timeliness and risk factors.
Cost & Other Expenses
For ETF investors, expense ratios are an important factor when considering a fund's return; in the long-term, cheaper funds actually have the ability to outperform their more expensive cousins if all other things remain the same.
With on par with most peer products in the space, this ETF has annual operating expenses of 0.57%.
It has a 12-month trailing dividend yield of 0.20%.
Sector Exposure and Top Holdings
While ETFs offer diversified exposure, which minimizes single stock risk, a deep look into a fund's holdings is a valuable exercise. And, most ETFs are very transparent products that disclose their holdings on a daily basis.
Representing 59% of the portfolio, the fund has heaviest allocation to the Industrials sector; Materials and Consumer Discretionary round out the top three.
Taking into account individual holdings, Emcor Group Inc (EME) accounts for about 5.47% of the fund's total assets, followed by Nvr Inc (NVR) and Johnson Controls International Plc (JCI).
PKB's top 10 holdings account for about 45.95% of its total assets under management.
Performance and Risk
The ETF has added about 8.8% so far this year and was up about 13.79% in the last one year (as of 07/22/2025). In the past 52-week period, it has traded between $62.05 and $88.37
The fund has a beta of 1.25 and standard deviation of 25.52% for the trailing three-year period, which makes PKB a high risk choice in this particular space. With about 32 holdings, it has more concentrated exposure than peers .
Alternatives
Invesco Building & Construction ETF is a reasonable option for investors seeking to outperform the Industrials ETFs segment of the market. However, there are other ETFs in the space which investors could consider.
SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF(XHB) tracks S&P Homebuilders Select Industry Index The fund has $1.42 billion in assets. XHB has an expense ratio of 0.35%.
Investors looking for cheaper and lower-risk options should consider traditional market cap weighted ETFs that aim to match the returns of the Industrials ETFs
Bottom Line
To learn more about this product and other ETFs, screen for products that match your investment objectives and read articles on latest developments in the ETF investing universe, please visit Zacks ETF Center.