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ALPHA BLUE CAPITAL US SMALL MID CAP ETF
SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS
 February 29, 2024 (Unaudited)

COMMON STOCKS - 62.9%
SharesValue
Agricultural & Farm Machinery - 0.8%
AGCO Corp.370 $40,589 
Lindsay Corp.351 41,878 
82,467 
Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods - 1.1%
Hanesbrands, Inc.(a)
7,098 38,329 
VF Corp.4,236 69,216 
107,545 
Application Software - 1.1%
DocuSign, Inc.(a)
695 37,023 
InterDigital, Inc.273 29,216 
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. - Class A(a)
566 40,033 
106,272 
Asset Management & Custody Banks - 1.5%
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.195 79,436 
Northern Trust Corp.819 67,264 
146,700 
Automobile Manufacturers - 0.3%
Thor Industries, Inc.234 29,994 
Automotive Retail - 2.2%
Advance Auto Parts, Inc.1,404 94,826 
Lithia Motors, Inc.429 128,297 
223,123 
Biotechnology - 0.8%
Biogen, Inc.(a)
351 76,163 
Broadcasting - 0.3%
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. - Class A195 32,403 
Broadline Retail - 0.6%
eBay, Inc.1,170 55,318 
Building Products - 0.6%
Resideo Technologies, Inc.(a)
2,613 58,348 
Casinos & Gaming - 0.3%
International Game Technology PLC1,053 28,610 


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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)
February 29, 2024 (Unaudited)
COMMON STOCKS - 62.9% (CONTINUED)
SharesValue
Commercial & Residential Mortgage Finance - 0.8%
Essent Group Ltd.936 $50,142 
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp. - Class C156 27,904 
78,046 
Commodity Chemicals - 0.3%
Olin Corp.561 30,182 
Construction Machinery & Heavy Transportation Equipment - 0.7%
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.507 38,193 
Terex Corp.507 29,076 
67,269 
Consumer Finance - 2.8%
Capital One Financial Corp.663 91,235 
Discover Financial Services819 98,853 
SLM Corp.4,797 99,923 
290,011 
Data Processing & Outsourced Services - 0.6%
Concentrix Corp.897 64,988 
Diversified Financial Services - 0.3%
Apollo Global Management, Inc.312 34,882 
Drug Retail - 0.3%
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.1,333 28,340 
Electric Utilities - 0.9%
American Electric Power Co., Inc.1,053 89,705 
Electrical Components & Equipment - 0.6%
Acuity Brands, Inc.234 58,790 
Electronic Components - 1.5%
Belden, Inc.646 55,026 
Coherent Corp.(a)
1,560 92,789 
147,815 
Electronic Manufacturing Services - 0.5%
Flex Ltd.(a)
1,661 46,757 
Environmental & Facilities Services - 0.6%
ABM Industries, Inc.1,482 61,221 


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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)
February 29, 2024 (Unaudited)
COMMON STOCKS - 62.9% (Continued)
SharesValue
Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals - 1.6%
Corteva, Inc.2,925 $156,546 
Food Retail - 0.8%
Kroger Co.1,521 75,457 
Footwear - 0.3%
Skechers USA, Inc. - Class A(a)
468 28,927 
Health Care Equipment - 0.9%
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.741 92,151 
Health Care Facilities - 0.3%
US Physical Therapy, Inc.312 33,156 
Health Care Services - 1.0%
AMN Healthcare Services, Inc.(a)
975 54,863 
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings234 50,504 
105,367 
Health Care Supplies - 0.7%
Haemonetics Corp.(a)
474 34,592 
ICU Medical, Inc.(a)
312 34,080 
68,672 
Home Furnishings - 0.4%
Tempur Sealy International, Inc.754 41,070 
Homebuilding - 0.4%
Meritage Homes Corp.273 43,041 
Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines - 1.4%
Expedia Group, Inc.(a)
543 74,293 
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc.858 65,680 
139,973 
Industrial Machinery & Supplies & Components - 1.1%
Chart Industries, Inc.(a)
391 55,859 
Otis Worldwide Corp.541 51,557 
107,416 
Investment Banking & Brokerage - 1.9%
Jefferies Financial Group, Inc.1,794 75,025 
LPL Financial Holdings, Inc.429 114,925 
189,950 


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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)
February 29, 2024 (Unaudited)
COMMON STOCKS - 62.9% (Continued)
SharesValue
Leisure Products - 0.6%
Mattel, Inc.(a)
1,518 $29,905 
Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp.(a)
2,067 29,434 
59,339 
Life Sciences Tools & Services - 1.3%
Avantor, Inc.(a)
1,287 31,712 
ICON PLC(a)
312 100,033 
131,745 
Managed Health Care - 2.8%
Centene Corp.(a)
1,833 143,763 
Humana, Inc.282 98,791 
Molina Healthcare, Inc.(a)
117 46,087 
288,641 
Motorcycle Manufacturers - 0.7%
Harley-Davidson, Inc.1,911 69,312 
Movies & Entertainment - 0.7%
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.(a)
741 71,862 
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services - 0.9%
Halliburton Co.2,457 86,167 
Oil & Gas Exploration & Production - 1.9%
Diamondback Energy, Inc.585 106,774 
Viper Energy, Inc.2,223 80,339 
187,113 
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing - 1.5%
Valero Energy Corp.663 93,788 
World Kinect Corp.2,223 54,152 
147,940 
Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation - 1.5%
Cheniere Energy, Inc.390 60,528 
Energy Transfer LP6,357 93,066 
153,594 


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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)
February 29, 2024 (Unaudited)
COMMON STOCKS - 62.9% (Continued)
SharesValue
Packaged Foods & Meats - 0.5%
Nomad Foods Ltd.2,964 $54,627 
Paper & Plastic Packaging Products & Materials - 1.4%
Graphic Packaging Holding Co.5,616 145,735 
Passenger Airlines - 0.9%
Alaska Air Group, Inc.(a)
1,248 46,663 
Delta Air Lines, Inc.1,131 47,807 
94,470 
Passenger Ground Transportation - 0.3%
Lyft, Inc. - Class A(a)
1,872 29,727 
Personal Care Products - 1.2%
Kenvue, Inc.6,474 123,006 
Property & Casualty Insurance - 1.8%
Ambac Financial Group, Inc.(a)
1,833 29,988 
Assured Guaranty Ltd.353 32,335 
Axis Capital Holdings Ltd.1,248 78,087 
First American Financial Corp.741 43,282 
183,692 
Real Estate Services - 0.7%
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.(a)
351 66,774 
Regional Banks - 2.1%
East West Bancorp, Inc.390 28,415 
Truist Financial Corp.3,705 129,601 
Wintrust Financial Corp.588 56,654 
214,670 
Reinsurance - 2.4%
Reinsurance Group of America, Inc.429 75,869 
Renaissancere Holdings Ltd.702 157,823 
233,692 
Research & Consulting Services - 0.4%
Equifax, Inc.153 41,859 
Security & Alarm Services - 0.4%
Brink's Co.546 45,225 


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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)
February 29, 2024 (Unaudited)
COMMON STOCKS - 62.9% (Continued)
SharesValue
Semiconductor Materials & Equipment - 0.7%
Photronics, Inc.(a)
939 $27,034 
Teradyne, Inc.439 45,476 
72,510 
Semiconductors - 1.8%
First Solar, Inc.(a)
482 74,175 
Microchip Technology, Inc.486 40,892 
Qorvo, Inc.(a)
585 67,012 
182,079 
Technology Distributors - 2.6%
Arrow Electronics, Inc.(a)
1,092 128,310 
Avnet, Inc.1,365 63,595 
TD SYNNEX Corp.624 64,834 
256,739 
Trading Companies & Distributors - 1.1%
Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc.(a)
351 30,147 
WESCO International, Inc.507 75,792 
105,939 
Transaction & Payment Processing Services - 2.4%
Global Payments, Inc.1,312 170,166 
PayPal Holdings, Inc.(a)
1,258 75,908 
246,074 
TOTAL COMMON STOCKS (Cost $6,135,000)
6,319,206 
EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS - 35.0%
Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF4,212 1,013,240 
Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF6,747 1,002,199 
Vanguard Small-Cap ETF2,340 513,770 
Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF5,421 989,820 
TOTAL EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS (Cost $3,394,768)
3,519,029 
REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS - 1.8%
Cousins Properties, Inc.1,209 27,577 
Equity Residential780 46,964 
Redwood Trust, Inc.3,822 23,429 
Starwood Property Trust, Inc.4,056 82,702 
TOTAL REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS (Cost $185,541)
180,672 


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SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)
February 29, 2024 (Unaudited)
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.3%
SharesValue
Money Market Funds - 0.3%
 
First American Government Obligations Fund - Class X, 5.23%(b)
34,363 $34,363 
TOTAL SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS (Cost $34,363)
34,363 
TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 100.0% (Cost $9,749,672)
$10,053,270 
Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 0.0%(c)
3,442 
TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0% $10,056,712 

 
Percentages are stated as a percent of net assets.
PLC - Public Limited Company
(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) The rate shown represents the 7-day effective yield as of February 29, 2024.
(c) Represents less than 0.05% of net assets.
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and Standard & Poor Financial Services LLC (“S&P”). GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P and has been licensed for use by U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC.
 



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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (UNAUDITED)
 
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Fund. These policies are in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”).
 
A.Security Valuation. Equity securities that are traded on a national securities exchange, except those listed on the NASDAQ Global Market® (“NASDAQ”) are valued at the last reported sale price on the exchange on which the security is principally traded. Securities traded on NASDAQ will be valued at the NASDAQ Official Closing Price (“NOCP”). If, on a particular day, an exchange-traded or NASDAQ security does not trade, then the most recent quoted bid for exchange-traded or the mean between the most recent quoted bid and ask price for NASDAQ securities will be used. Equity securities that are not traded on a listed exchange are generally valued at the last sale price in the over-the-counter market. If a non-exchange traded security does not trade on a particular day, then the mean between the last quoted closing bid and asked price will be used. Prices denominated in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollar equivalents at the current exchange rate, which approximates fair value. Redeemable securities issued by open-end investment companies are valued at the investment company’s applicable net asset value, with the exception of exchange-traded open-end investment companies which are priced as equity securities. Fair values for long-term debt securities, including asset-backed securities (“ABS”), collateralized loan obligations (“CLO”), collateralized mortgage obligations (“CMO”), corporate obligations, whole loans, and mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”) are normally determined on the basis of valuations provided by independent pricing services. Vendors typically value such securities based on one or more inputs, including but not limited to, benchmark yields, transactions, bids, offers, quotations from dealers and trading systems, new issues, spreads and other relationships observed in the markets among comparable securities; and pricing models such as yield measurers calculated using factors such as cash flows, financial or collateral performance and other reference data. In addition to these inputs, MBS and ABS may utilize cash flows, prepayment information, default rates, delinquency and loss assumptions, collateral characteristics, credit enhancements and specific deal information. Reverse repurchase agreements are priced at their acquisition cost, and assessed for credit adjustments, which represents fair value. Futures contracts are carried at fair value using the primary exchange’s closing (settlement) price.
 
Subject to its oversight, the Trust’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the Fund’s investments to Empowered Funds, LLC dba EA Advisers (the “Adviser”), pursuant to the Trust’s valuation policy and procedures, which have been adopted by the Trust and approved by the Board. In accordance with Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act, the Board designated the Adviser as the “valuation designee” of the Fund. If the Adviser, as valuation designee, determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available for an investment, the investment is valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the Adviser in accordance with the Trust’s fair valuation policy and procedures. The Adviser will provide the Board with periodic reports, no less frequently than quarterly, that discuss the functioning of the valuation process, if applicable, and that identify issues and valuation problems that have arisen, if any. As appropriate, the Adviser and the Board will review any securities valued by the Adviser in accordance with the Trust’s valuation policies during these periodic reports. The use of fair value pricing by the Fund may cause the net asset value of its shares to differ significantly from the net asset value that would be calculated without regard to such considerations. As of February 29, 2024, the Fund did not hold any securities that required fair valuation due to unobservable inputs.
 
As described above, the Fund may use various methods to measure the fair value of their investments on a recurring basis. GAAP establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation methods. The three levels of inputs are:
 
Level 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Fund has the ability to access.
 
Level 2 – Observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. These inputs may include quoted prices for the identical instrument on an inactive market, prices for similar instruments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, default rates and similar data.
 
Level 3 – Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability, to the extent relevant observable inputs are not available; representing the Fund’s own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in valuing the asset or liability and would be based on the best information available.
 
The availability of observable inputs can vary from security to security and is affected by a wide variety of factors, including, for example, the type of security, whether the security is new and not yet established in the marketplace, the liquidity of markets, and other characteristics particular to the security. To the extent that valuation is based on models or inputs that are less observable or unobservable in the market, the determination of fair value requires
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more judgment. Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is greatest for instruments categorized in Level 3.
 
The inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, for disclosure purposes, the level in the fair value hierarchy within which the fair value measurement falls in its entirety, is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety.
 
The following is a summary of the fair value classification of the Fund’s investments as of February 29, 2024:
 
DESCRIPTIONLEVEL 1LEVEL 2LEVEL 3TOTAL
Assets*
  Common Stocks$6,319,206 $— $— $6,319,206 
  Exchange Traded Funds3,519,029 — — 3,519,029 
  Real Estate Investment Trusts180,672 — — 180,672 
  Money Market Funds34,363 — — 34,363 
Total Investments in Securities$10,053,270 $ $ $10,053,270 
 
 *
For further detail, see the Schedule of Investments.
 
During the fiscal period ended February 29, 2024, the Fund did not invest in any Level 3 investments and recognized no transfers to/from Level 3. Transfers between levels are recognized at the end of the reporting period.
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