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CLEARBRIDGE FOCUS VALUE ESG ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    June 30, 2023

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 96.0%      
COMMUNICATION SERVICES - 8.6%      

Interactive Media & Services - 4.7%

     

Alphabet Inc., Class A Shares

     310      $ 37,107

Meta Platforms Inc., Class A Shares

     378        108,478
     

 

 

 

Total Interactive Media & Services

        145,585  
     

 

 

 

Media - 3.9%

     

Charter Communications Inc., Class A Shares

     176        64,657

Comcast Corp., Class A Shares

     1,294        53,766  
     

 

 

 

Total Media

        118,423  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES

        264,008  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 1.9%      

Specialty Retail - 1.9%

     

Home Depot Inc.

     186        57,779  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER STAPLES - 1.5%      

Personal Care Products - 1.5%

     

Haleon PLC, ADR

     5,451        45,679  
     

 

 

 
ENERGY - 2.8%      

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 2.8%

     

TC Energy Corp.

     2,168        87,609  
     

 

 

 
FINANCIALS - 23.5%      

Banks - 7.5%

     

Bank of America Corp.

     3,286        94,275  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     951        138,314  
     

 

 

 

Total Banks

        232,589  
     

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 2.9%

     

Charles Schwab Corp.

     1,561        88,477  
     

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 3.1%

     

American Express Co.

     551        95,984  
     

 

 

 

Financial Services - 6.1%

     

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Class B Shares

     347        118,327

Visa Inc., Class A Shares

     289        68,632  
     

 

 

 

Total Financial Services

        186,959  
     

 

 

 

Insurance - 3.9%

     

Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.

     318        59,810  

Progressive Corp.

     463        61,287  
     

 

 

 

Total Insurance

        121,097  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL FINANCIALS

        725,106  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

ClearBridge Focus Value ESG ETF 2023 Quarterly Report    

 

 

 

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CLEARBRIDGE FOCUS VALUE ESG ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    June 30, 2023

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
HEALTH CARE - 13.5%      

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 3.0%

     

Becton Dickinson & Co.

     351      $ 92,667  
     

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 7.7%

     

McKesson Corp.

     237        101,273  

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

     283        136,021  
     

 

 

 

Total Health Care Providers & Services

        237,294  
     

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 2.8%

     

Johnson & Johnson

     533        88,222  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

        418,183  
     

 

 

 
INDUSTRIALS - 12.9%      

Air Freight & Logistics - 2.1%

     

United Parcel Service Inc., Class B Shares

     363        65,068  
     

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 1.9%

     

Vertiv Holdings Co.

     2,362        58,507  
     

 

 

 

Machinery - 8.9%

     

Deere & Co.

     286        115,884  

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

     303        75,799  

Otis Worldwide Corp.

     943        83,936  
     

 

 

 

Total Machinery

        275,619  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

        399,194  
     

 

 

 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 14.8%      

Communications Equipment - 3.2%

     

Motorola Solutions Inc.

     334        97,956  
     

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 3.3%

     

TE Connectivity Ltd.

     732        102,597  
     

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 6.9%

     

Intel Corp.

     4,675        156,332  

Lam Research Corp.

     90        57,857  
     

 

 

 

Total Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

        214,189  
     

 

 

 

Software - 1.4%

     

Microsoft Corp.

     127        43,249  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

        457,991  
     

 

 

 
MATERIALS - 8.8%      

Chemicals - 6.5%

     

Air Products & Chemicals Inc.

     341        102,140  

Sherwin-Williams Co.

     372        98,773  
     

 

 

 

Total Chemicals

        200,913  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

 

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    ClearBridge Focus Value ESG ETF 2023 Quarterly Report

 


CLEARBRIDGE FOCUS VALUE ESG ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    June 30, 2023

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

 

SECURITY

    SHARES      VALUE  

Construction Materials - 2.3%

       

Martin Marietta Materials Inc.

       151      $ 69,715  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL MATERIALS

          270,628  
       

 

 

 
REAL ESTATE - 1.6%        

Specialized REITs - 1.6%

       

American Tower Corp.

       256        49,649  
       

 

 

 
UTILITIES - 6.1%        

Electric Utilities - 2.0%

       

Edison International

       869        60,352  
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 4.1%

       

Sempra Energy

       871        126,809  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL UTILITIES

          187,161  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS BEFORE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
(Cost - $2,462,406)

 

       2,962,987  
       

 

 

 
     RATE               
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 3.7%        

JPMorgan 100% U.S. Treasury Securities Money Market Fund, Institutional Class
(Cost - $114,277)

     5.028     114,277        114,277 (a)  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 99.7%
(Cost - $2,576,683)

          3,077,264  

Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 0.3%

          8,227  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

        $ 3,085,491  
       

 

 

 

 

*

Non-income producing security.

 

(a)

Rate shown is one-day yield as of the end of the reporting period.

Abbreviation(s) 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.

 

 

ClearBridge Focus Value ESG ETF 2023 Quarterly Report    

 

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited)

 

1. Organization and significant accounting policies

ClearBridge Focus Value ESG ETF (the “Fund”) is a separate diversified investment series of Legg Mason ETF Investment Trust II (formerly ActiveShares® ETF 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. Unlike most actively managed ETFs, the Fund does not provide daily disclosure of its portfolio holdings. Instead, the Fund provides a verified intra-day indicative value (“VIIV”), calculated and disseminated every second throughout the trading day. The VIIV is intended to provide investors with enough information to allow for an effective arbitrage mechanism that will keep the market price of the Fund’s shares trading at or close to the underlying NAV per share of the Fund. Additionally, due to the non-disclosure of daily holdings, the Fund’s creation and redemption process will be facilitated by certain broker-dealers (“Authorized Participant Representatives”) that have entered into confidentiality arrangements with the Fund and that serve as agents for the Authorized Participants transacting with the Fund.

Shares of the Fund are listed and traded at market prices on the Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. 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. In addition, because the Fund’s shares trade on the basis of a published VIIV, they may trade at a wider bid/ask spread than ETFs that publish their portfolios on a daily basis. Creation Units are created and redeemed principally in-kind (although under some circumstances its shares are created and redeemed partially for cash). In order to maintain confidentiality of the Fund’s holdings, Authorized Participants are unable to view Fund holdings. However, to facilitate the creation and redemption of Fund shares in-kind, the Authorized Participant Representatives are able to view Fund holdings. In order to create or redeem Fund shares, Authorized Participants must use an Authorized Participant Representative as an agent. To avoid unfair advantages, an Authorized Participant Representative cannot create or redeem shares directly with the Fund for its own account.

The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.

 

 

 

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

 

The Fund follows the accounting and reporting guidance in Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946, Financial Services – Investment Companies (“ASC 946”). The following are significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Fund and are in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), including, but not limited to, ASC 946.

(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 typically 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 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.

Pursuant to policies adopted by the Board of Trustees, the Fund’s manager has been designated as the valuation designee and is responsible for the oversight of the daily valuation process. The Fund’s manager is assisted by the Global Fund Valuation Committee (the “Valuation Committee”). The Valuation Committee is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the Fund’s pricing policies, and reporting to the Fund’s manager and 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

 

   

 

 

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

 

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.

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 – unadjusted 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.

 

 

 

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

 

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†

   $ 2,962,987        —          —        $ 2,962,987  

Short-Term Investments†

     114,277        —          —          114,277  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments

   $ 3,077,264        —          —        $ 3,077,264  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

 

   

 

 

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