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ClearBridge Dividend Strategy ESG ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    February 29, 2020

 

Security

   Shares      Value  
Common Stocks - 94.2%      
Communication Services - 7.4%      

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 1.9%

     

Verizon Communications Inc.

     2,595      $ 140,545  
     

 

 

 

Entertainment - 2.4%

     

Walt Disney Co.

     1,535        180,593  
     

 

 

 

Media - 3.1%

     

Comcast Corp., Class A Shares

     5,636        227,863  
     

 

 

 

Total Communication Services

        549,001  
     

 

 

 
Consumer Discretionary - 5.3%      

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.6%

     

Starbucks Corp.

     1,520        119,214  
     

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 2.5%

     

Home Depot Inc.

     860        187,342  
     

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 1.2%

     

VF Corp.

     1,220        87,840  
     

 

 

 

Total Consumer Discretionary

        394,396  
     

 

 

 
Consumer Staples - 11.3%      

Beverages - 0.5%

     

PepsiCo Inc.

     310        40,929  
     

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 1.1%

     

Sysco Corp.

     1,220        81,313  
     

 

 

 

Food Products - 4.3%

     

Mondelez International Inc., Class A Shares

     2,800        147,840  

Nestle SA, ADR

     1,711        176,079  
     

 

 

 

Total Food Products

        323,919  
     

 

 

 

Household Products - 3.9%

     

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

     1,480        100,003  

Procter & Gamble Co.

     1,655        187,396  
     

 

 

 

Total Household Products

        287,399  
     

 

 

 

Personal Products - 1.5%

     

Unilever PLC, ADR

     2,019        108,885  
     

 

 

 

Total Consumer Staples

        842,445  
     

 

 

 
Energy - 3.9%      

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 3.9%

     

Kinder Morgan Inc.

     7,466        143,123  

Williams Cos. Inc.

     7,946        151,372  
     

 

 

 

Total Energy

        294,495  
     

 

 

 
Financials - 11.8%      

Banks - 5.8%

     

Bank of America Corp.

     7,071        201,523  

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

    

 

   ClearBridge Dividend Strategy ESG ETF 2020 Quarterly Report      

 

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Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    February 29, 2020

 

Security

   Shares      Value  

Banks - continued

     

PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

     954      $ 120,586  

US Bancorp

     2,391        111,038  
     

 

 

 

Total Banks

        433,147  
     

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 2.0%

     

BlackRock Inc.

     321        148,626  
     

 

 

 

Insurance - 4.0%

     

American International Group Inc.

     2,766        116,615  

MetLife Inc.

     2,561        109,406  

Travelers Cos. Inc.

     620        74,282  
     

 

 

 

Total Insurance

        300,303  
     

 

 

 

Total Financials

        882,076  
     

 

 

 
Health Care - 8.0%      

Health Care Providers & Services - 1.6%

     

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

     466        118,811  
     

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 6.4%

     

Johnson & Johnson

     1,150        154,652  

Merck & Co. Inc.

     2,470        189,103  

Pfizer Inc.

     3,944        131,809  
     

 

 

 

Total Pharmaceuticals

        475,564  
     

 

 

 

Total Health Care

        594,375  
     

 

 

 
Industrials - 10.4%      

Air Freight & Logistics - 2.0%

     

United Parcel Service Inc., Class B Shares

     1,649        149,218  
     

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 2.7%

     

Covanta Holding Corp.

     3,610        48,230  

Waste Management Inc.

     1,385        153,472  
     

 

 

 

Total Commercial Services & Supplies

        201,702  
     

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 1.1%

     

Emerson Electric Co.

     1,285        82,381  
     

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 2.9%

     

3M Co.

     495        73,874  

Honeywell International Inc.

     885        143,520  
     

 

 

 

Total Industrial Conglomerates

        217,394  
     

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 1.7%

     

Union Pacific Corp.

     759        121,296  
     

 

 

 

Total Industrials

        771,991  
     

 

 

 
Information Technology - 15.7%      

Communications Equipment - 0.6%

     

Cisco Systems Inc.

     1,100        43,923  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

   

 

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      ClearBridge Dividend Strategy ESG ETF 2020 Quarterly Report  


ClearBridge Dividend Strategy ESG ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    February 29, 2020

 

Security

   Shares      Value  

IT Services - 5.2%

     

Mastercard Inc., Class A Shares

     606      $ 175,891  

Visa Inc., Class A Shares

     1,179        214,295  
     

 

 

 

Total IT Services

        390,186  
     

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 2.1%

     

Intel Corp.

     749        41,585  

Texas Instruments Inc.

     995        113,569  
     

 

 

 

Total Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

        155,154  
     

 

 

 

Software - 4.7%

     

Microsoft Corp.

     2,145        347,511  
     

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 3.1%

     

Apple Inc.

     849        232,083  
     

 

 

 

Total Information Technology

        1,168,857  
     

 

 

 
Materials - 10.3%      

Chemicals - 6.5%

     

Ecolab Inc.

     984        177,563  

Linde PLC

     765        146,123  

PPG Industries Inc.

     1,516        158,346  
     

 

 

 

Total Chemicals

        482,032  
     

 

 

 

Construction Materials - 1.5%

     

Vulcan Materials Co.

     970        116,652  
     

 

 

 

Containers & Packaging - 1.5%

     

International Paper Co.

     2,960        109,402  
     

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 0.8%

     

Nucor Corp.

     1,384        57,228  
     

 

 

 

Total Materials

        765,314  
     

 

 

 
Real Estate - 2.3%      

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 2.3%

     

American Tower Corp.

     741        168,059  
     

 

 

 
Utilities - 7.8%      

Electric Utilities - 3.7%

     

Edison International

     1,460        98,097  

NextEra Energy Inc.

     715        180,724  
     

 

 

 

Total Electric Utilities

        278,821  
     

 

 

 

Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers - 2.5%

     

Brookfield Renewable Partners LP

     3,800        189,468
     

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 1.6%

     

Sempra Energy

     830        116,017  
     

 

 

 

Total Utilities

        584,306  
     

 

 

 

Total Investments before Short-Term Investments

(Cost - $6,645,455)

        7,015,315  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

    

 

   ClearBridge Dividend Strategy ESG ETF 2020 Quarterly Report      

 

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Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    February 29, 2020

 

Security

   Rate     Shares      Value  
Short-Term Investments - 6.2%        

JPMorgan 100% U.S. Treasury Securities Money Market Fund, Institutional Class

(Cost - $457,955)

     1.412     457,955      $ 457,955  
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 100.4%

(Cost - $7,103,410)

          7,473,270  

Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets - (0.4)%

          (26,608
       

 

 

 

Total Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 7,446,662  
       

 

 

 

 

*

Non-income producing security.

Abbreviation used in this schedule:

ADR   

— American Depositary Receipts

This Schedule of Investments is unaudited and is intended to provide information about the Fund’s investments as of the date of the schedule. Other information regarding the Fund is available in the Fund’s most recent annual or semi-annual shareholder report.

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

   

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)

 

1. Organization and significant accounting policies

ClearBridge Dividend Strategy ESG ETF (the “Fund”) is a separate diversified investment series of Legg Mason ETF Investment Trust (the “Trust”). The Trust, a Maryland statutory trust, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company.

The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”). ETFs are funds that trade like other publicly-traded securities. Unlike shares of a mutual fund, which can be bought from and redeemed by the issuing fund by all shareholders at a price based on net asset value (“NAV”), shares of the Fund may be directly purchased from and redeemed by the Fund at NAV solely by certain large institutional investors who have entered into agreements with the Fund’s distributor (“Authorized Participants”). Also unlike shares of a mutual fund, shares of the Fund are listed on a national securities exchange and trade in the secondary market at market prices that change throughout the day.

Shares of the Fund are listed and traded at market prices on NASDAQ. The market price for the Fund’s shares may be different from the Fund’s NAV. The Fund issues and redeems shares at NAV only in blocks of a specified number of shares or multiples thereof (“Creation Units”). Only Authorized Participants may purchase or redeem Creation Units directly with the Fund at NAV. Creation Units are created and redeemed principally in-kind (although under some circumstances its shares are created and redeemed partially for cash). Except when aggregated in Creation Units, shares of the Fund are not redeemable securities. Shareholders who are not Authorized Participants may not redeem shares directly from the Fund at NAV.

The Fund seeks dividend income, growth of dividend income and long-term capital appreciation.

The following are significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Fund and are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”).

(a) Investment valuation. Equity securities for which market quotations are available are valued at the last reported sales price or official closing price on the primary market or exchange on which they trade. The valuations for fixed income securities (which may include, but are not limited to, corporate, government, municipal, mortgage-backed, collateralized mortgage obligations and asset-backed securities) and certain derivative instruments are typically the prices supplied by independent third party pricing services, which may use market prices or broker/dealer quotations or a variety of valuation techniques and methodologies. The independent third party pricing services use inputs that are observable such as issuer details, interest rates, yield curves, prepayment speeds, credit risks/spreads, default rates and quoted prices for similar securities. Investments in open-end funds are valued at the closing net asset value per share of each fund on the day of valuation. When the Fund holds securities or other assets that are denominated in a foreign currency, the Fund will use the currency exchange rates, generally determined as of

 

    

 

    

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

 

4:00 p.m. (London Time). If independent third party pricing services are unable to supply prices for a portfolio investment, or if the prices supplied are deemed by the manager to be unreliable, the market price may be determined by the manager using quotations from one or more broker/dealers or at the transaction price if the security has recently been purchased and no value has yet been obtained from a pricing service or pricing broker. When reliable prices are not readily available, such as when the value of a security has been significantly affected by events after the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded, but before the Fund calculates its net asset value, the Fund values these securities as determined in accordance with procedures approved by the Fund’s Board of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the valuation process and has delegated the supervision of the daily valuation process to the Legg Mason North Atlantic Fund Valuation Committee (the “Valuation Committee”). The Valuation Committee, pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the Fund’s pricing policies, and reporting to the Board of Trustees. When determining the reliability of third party pricing information for investments owned by the Fund, the Valuation Committee, among other things, conducts due diligence reviews of pricing vendors, monitors the daily change in prices and reviews transactions among market participants.

The Valuation Committee will consider pricing methodologies it deems relevant and appropriate when making fair value determinations. Examples of possible methodologies include, but are not limited to, multiple of earnings; discount from market of a similar freely traded security; discounted cash-flow analysis; book value or a multiple thereof; risk premium/yield analysis; yield to maturity; and/or fundamental investment analysis. The Valuation Committee will also consider factors it deems relevant and appropriate in light of the facts and circumstances. Examples of possible factors include, but are not limited to, the type of security; the issuer’s financial statements; the purchase price of the security; the discount from market value of unrestricted securities of the same class at the time of purchase; analysts’ research and observations from financial institutions; information regarding any transactions or offers with respect to the security; the existence of merger proposals or tender offers affecting the security; the price and extent of public trading in similar securities of the issuer or comparable companies; and the existence of a shelf registration for restricted securities.

For each portfolio security that has been fair valued pursuant to the policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, the fair value price is compared against the last available and next available market quotations. The Valuation Committee reviews the results of such back testing monthly and fair valuation occurrences are reported to the Board of Trustees quarterly.

 

 

   

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

 

The Fund uses valuation techniques to measure fair value that are consistent with the market approach and/or income approach, depending on the type of security and the particular circumstance. The market approach uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable securities. The income approach uses valuation techniques to discount estimated future cash flows to present value.

GAAP establishes a disclosure hierarchy that categorizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to value assets and liabilities at measurement date. These inputs are summarized in the three broad levels listed below:

 

   

Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

 

   

Level 2 – other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

 

   

Level 3 – significant unobservable inputs (including the Fund’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The following is a summary of the inputs used in valuing the Fund’s assets carried at fair value:

 

ASSETS

 

Description

   Quoted Prices
(Level 1)
     Other Significant
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)
     Significant
Unobservable
Inputs

(Level 3)
     Total  

Common Stocks†

   $ 7,015,315        —          —        $ 7,015,315  

Short-Term Investments†

     457,955        —          —          457,955  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments

   $ 7,473,270        —          —        $ 7,473,270  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

 

    

 

    

 

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