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CLEARBRIDGE FOCUS VALUE ESG ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)    December 31, 2023

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 99.6%      
COMMUNICATION SERVICES - 8.1%      

Interactive Media & Services - 2.5%

     

Alphabet Inc., Class A Shares

     234      $ 32,688

Meta Platforms Inc., Class A Shares

     149        52,740
     

 

 

 

Total Interactive Media & Services

        85,428  
     

 

 

 

Media - 5.6%

     

Charter Communications Inc., Class A Shares

     176        68,408

Comcast Corp., Class A Shares

     2,744        120,324  
     

 

 

 

Total Media

        188,732  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES

        274,160  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 1.9%      

Specialty Retail - 1.9%

     

Home Depot Inc.

     186        64,458  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER STAPLES - 1.3%      

Personal Care Products - 1.3%

     

Haleon PLC, ADR

     5,451        44,862  
     

 

 

 
ENERGY - 2.0%      

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 2.0%

     

TC Energy Corp.

     1,725        67,430  
     

 

 

 
FINANCIALS - 21.4%      

Banks - 10.3%

     

Bank of America Corp.

     5,553        186,969  

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     951        161,765  
     

 

 

 

Total Banks

        348,734  
     

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 3.9%

     

Charles Schwab Corp.

     1,916        131,821  
     

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 3.1%

     

American Express Co.

     551        103,224  
     

 

 

 

Financial Services - 1.3%

     

Visa Inc., Class A Shares

     162        42,177  
     

 

 

 

Insurance - 2.8%

     

Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.

     318        60,251  

Progressive Corp.

     216        34,405  
     

 

 

 

Total Insurance

        94,656  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL FINANCIALS

        720,612  
     

 

 

 
HEALTH CARE - 20.4%      

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 3.1%

     

Becton Dickinson & Co.

     427        104,115  
     

 

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

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CLEARBRIDGE FOCUS VALUE ESG ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    December 31, 2023

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  

Health Care Providers & Services - 10.1%

     

CVS Health Corp.

     1,719      $ 135,733  

McKesson Corp.

     292        135,190  

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

     128        67,388  
     

 

 

 

Total Health Care Providers & Services

        338,311  
     

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 3.2%

     

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

     204        108,281  
     

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 4.0%

     

Johnson & Johnson

     865        135,580  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

        686,287  
     

 

 

 
INDUSTRIALS - 10.9%      

Air Freight & Logistics - 3.5%

     

United Parcel Service Inc., Class B Shares

     753        118,394  
     

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.6%

     

Veralto Corp.

     633        52,071  
     

 

 

 

Machinery - 5.8%

     

Deere & Co.

     83        33,189  

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

     303        79,368  

Otis Worldwide Corp.

     943        84,370  
     

 

 

 

Total Machinery

        196,927  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

        367,392  
     

 

 

 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 14.7%      

Communications Equipment - 2.0%

     

Motorola Solutions Inc.

     217        67,941  
     

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 1.6%

     

TE Connectivity Ltd.

     381        53,530  
     

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 10.0%

     

Intel Corp.

     5,288        265,722  

Lam Research Corp.

     90        70,493  
     

 

 

 

Total Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment

        336,215  
     

 

 

 

Software - 1.1%

     

Microsoft Corp.

     97        36,476  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

        494,162  
     

 

 

 
MATERIALS - 9.1%      

Chemicals - 6.9%

     

Air Products & Chemicals Inc.

     419        114,722  

Sherwin-Williams Co.

     372        116,027  
     

 

 

 

Total Chemicals

        230,749  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

 

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CLEARBRIDGE FOCUS VALUE ESG ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)    December 31, 2023

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

 

SECURITY

         SHARES      VALUE  

Construction Materials - 2.2%

       

Martin Marietta Materials Inc.

       151      $ 75,336  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL MATERIALS

          306,085  
       

 

 

 
REAL ESTATE - 1.6%        

Specialized REITs - 1.6%

       

American Tower Corp.

       256        55,265  
       

 

 

 
UTILITIES - 8.2%        

Electric Utilities - 2.5%

       

Edison International

       1,157        82,714  
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 5.7%

       

Sempra

       1,938        144,827  

WEC Energy Group Inc.

       584        49,155  
       

 

 

 

Total Multi-Utilities

          193,982  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL UTILITIES

          276,696  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS BEFORE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS
(Cost - $2,750,367)

 

     3,357,409  
       

 

 

 
     RATE               
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.3%        

JPMorgan 100% U.S. Treasury Securities Money Market Fund, Institutional Class
(Cost - $10,319)

     5.197     10,319        10,319 (a) 
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 99.9%
(Cost - $2,760,686)

          3,367,728  

Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 0.1%

          4,477  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

        $ 3,372,205  
       

 

 

 

 

*

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.

 

 

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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.

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. Creation Units are created and redeemed principally in-kind (although under some circumstances its shares are created and redeemed partially for cash).

The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.

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

 

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

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 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) (continued)

 

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.

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†

   $ 3,357,409        —         —       $ 3,357,409  

Short-Term Investments†

     10,319        —         —         10,319  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments

   $ 3,367,728        —         —       $ 3,367,728  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

 

 

 

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