- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Address
- United States of America
- IPO Date
- Nov 8, 2023
- Business
- Honeytree U.S. Equity ETF (BEEZ), a series of EA Series Trust, is an actively managed exchange-traded fund that seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in a concentrated portfolio of 25-30 responsibly growing U.S. listed equity securities, defined as purpose-driven, stakeholder-governed companies demonstrating strong governance, innovation, sustainable fundamentals, and net positive impact; the fund employs a combined quantitative and fundamental methodology, starting with approximately 25 qualification criteria from a universe of nearly 3,000 U.S. equities to form a consideration set of about 50 mid- to large-cap stocks exceeding $5 billion in market capitalization, followed by evaluation across 45 equally weighted criteria organized into 12 pillars encompassing financial metrics like earnings growth and debt capacity alongside ESG factors such as emissions management and leadership diversity, with quarterly equal-weight rebalancing and annual renewal of the consideration set, excluding companies involved in gambling, adult entertainment, weapons, tobacco, or fossil fuels.
The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of U.S. companies whose shares trade principally in the United States or with principal places of business therein, primarily common stocks of large- and mid-capitalization issuers across sectors including historically significant exposure to information technology, industrials, health care, life sciences, financials, materials, and consumer discretionary; shares trade on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, with Empowered Funds, LLC dba EA Advisers serving as investment adviser, Honeytree Investment Management Ltd. as sub-adviser, and Quasar Distributors, LLC as distributor.
EA Series Trust, formerly Alpha Architect ETF Trust and founded in 2013 as a Delaware statutory trust, is headquartered at 19 East Eagle Road, Havertown, Pennsylvania 19083; Honeytree Investment Management Ltd., the sub-adviser founded in 2018 by Paula Glick and Liz Simmie and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, manages the portfolio with Liz Simmie as primary portfolio manager since inception.
Launched on November 6, 2023, the fund marked Honeytree Investment Management's entry into ETFs in partnership with EA Advisers and ETF Architect, delivering a 10.46% return for calendar 2024 amid quarterly portfolio adjustments; as of September 30, 2024, top sector weightings stood at information technology (24.0%), industrials (20.2%), and health care (15.4%), with audited financials incorporated in its January 31, 2025 prospectus and SAI reflecting ongoing operations without reported acquisitions, funding rounds, or major strategic shifts in 2024-2025.