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LEGG MASON LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited)

 

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

   January 31, 2022

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
COMMON STOCKS - 99.5%      
COMMUNICATION SERVICES - 4.8%      

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 2.4%

     

Verizon Communications Inc.

     367,530      $ 19,563,622  
     

 

 

 

Media - 2.4%

     

Interpublic Group of Cos. Inc.

     284,658        10,116,745  

Omnicom Group Inc.

     134,102        10,105,927  
     

 

 

 

Total Media

        20,222,672  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES

        39,786,294  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY - 2.6%      

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 2.6%

     

McDonald’s Corp.

     83,176        21,580,013  
     

 

 

 
CONSUMER STAPLES - 28.3%      

Beverages - 5.4%

     

Coca-Cola Co.

     360,672        22,004,599  

PepsiCo Inc.

     131,435        22,806,601  
     

 

 

 

Total Beverages

        44,811,200  
     

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 2.6%

     

Kroger Co.

     509,526        22,210,238  
     

 

 

 

Food Products - 10.5%

     

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

     180,217        13,516,275  

Campbell Soup Co.

     169,115        7,461,354  

Conagra Brands Inc.

     261,736        9,097,943  

Flowers Foods Inc.

     89,196        2,509,084  

General Mills Inc.

     307,788        21,138,880  

Hormel Foods Corp.

     158,418        7,520,102  

JM Smucker Co.

     82,720        11,628,778  

Kellogg Co.

     236,463        14,897,169  
     

 

 

 

Total Food Products

        87,769,585  
     

 

 

 

Household Products - 7.3%

     

Clorox Co.

     98,608        16,552,339  

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

     262,349        21,630,675  

Procter & Gamble Co.

     141,155        22,648,320  
     

 

 

 

Total Household Products

        60,831,334  
     

 

 

 

Tobacco - 2.5%

     

Philip Morris International Inc.

     205,078        21,092,272  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL CONSUMER STAPLES

        236,714,629  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

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Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

 

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

   January 31, 2022

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  
FINANCIALS - 2.9%      

Banks - 1.4%

     

First Hawaiian Inc.

     52,054      $ 1,475,731  

FNB Corp.

     167,515        2,164,294  

Park National Corp.

     3,556        481,696  

People’s United Financial Inc.

     350,193        6,786,740  

WesBanco Inc.

     19,098        677,788  
     

 

 

 

Total Banks

        11,586,249  
     

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 0.7%

     

Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

     85,605        5,072,952  

Cohen & Steers Inc.

     9,631        804,478  
     

 

 

 

Total Capital Markets

        5,877,430  
     

 

 

 

Insurance - 0.2%

     

Mercury General Corp.

     16,950        926,487  

Safety Insurance Group Inc.

     5,237        431,162  
     

 

 

 

Total Insurance

        1,357,649  
     

 

 

 

Mortgage Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 0.1%

     

Ellington Financial Inc.

     42,251        750,800  
     

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 0.5%

     

New York Community Bancorp Inc.

     336,062        3,918,483  

Provident Financial Services Inc.

     24,112        582,787  
     

 

 

 

Total Thrifts & Mortgage Finance

        4,501,270  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL FINANCIALS

        24,073,398  
     

 

 

 
HEALTH CARE - 10.4%      

Biotechnology - 1.8%

     

Gilead Sciences Inc.

     225,018        15,454,236  
     

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 3.0%

     

CVS Health Corp.

     232,108        24,721,823  
     

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 5.6%

     

Johnson & Johnson

     120,288        20,724,419  

Pfizer Inc.

     488,637        25,746,284  
     

 

 

 

Total Pharmaceuticals

        46,470,703  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL HEALTH CARE

        86,646,762  
     

 

 

 
INDUSTRIALS - 13.9%      

Aerospace & Defense - 4.8%

     

General Dynamics Corp.

     89,903        19,068,426  

Lockheed Martin Corp.

     53,105        20,664,749  
     

 

 

 

Total Aerospace & Defense

        39,733,175  
     

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 4.6%

     

Eaton Corp. PLC

     120,715        19,124,877  

Emerson Electric Co.

     209,711        19,282,927  
     

 

 

 

Total Electrical Equipment

        38,407,804  
     

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 2.1%

     

3M Co.

     107,995        17,929,330  
     

 

 

 

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

 

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Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

 

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

   January 31, 2022

 

SECURITY

   SHARES      VALUE  

Machinery - 0.7%

     

PACCAR Inc.

     62,257      $ 5,789,278  
     

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 1.7%

     

Fastenal Co.

     245,359        13,906,948  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INDUSTRIALS

        115,766,535  
     

 

 

 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - 7.4%      

Communications Equipment - 2.5%

     

Cisco Systems Inc.

     371,957        20,706,846  
     

 

 

 

IT Services - 2.0%

     

Paychex Inc.

     142,701        16,804,470  
     

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 2.9%

     

Seagate Technology Holdings PLC

     230,265        24,672,895  
     

 

 

 

TOTAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

        62,184,211  
     

 

 

 
MATERIALS - 0.8%      

Containers & Packaging - 0.8%

     

Packaging Corp. of America

     45,281        6,820,677  
     

 

 

 
REAL ESTATE - 12.5%      

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 12.5%

     

Agree Realty Corp.

     48,452        3,167,792  

Broadstone Net Lease Inc.

     173,351        4,006,142  

CubeSmart

     73,680        3,738,523  

Easterly Government Properties Inc.

     53,359        1,118,938  

Four Corners Property Trust Inc.

     36,678        992,873  

Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc.

     89,290        4,034,122  

GEO Group Inc.

     524,085        3,527,092

Getty Realty Corp.

     14,377        426,566  

Highwoods Properties Inc.

     64,456        2,779,343  

Industrial Logistics Properties Trust

     21,235        486,918  

Kimco Realty Corp.

     329,106        7,984,111  

Lamar Advertising Co., Class A Shares

     34,321        3,801,394  

Life Storage Inc.

     37,965        5,123,377  

LTC Properties Inc.

     20,532        740,589  

LXP Industrial Trust

     112,449        1,674,366  

Medical Properties Trust Inc.

     292,379        6,654,546  

MGM Growth Properties LLC, Class A Shares

     88,333        3,434,387  

National Health Investors Inc.

     24,118        1,394,744  

National Retail Properties Inc.

     74,849        3,321,799  

Orion Office REIT Inc.

     24,647        410,126

Physicians Realty Trust

     141,033        2,575,263  

Piedmont Office Realty Trust Inc., Class A Shares

     55,595        987,367  

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

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LEGG MASON LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

 

(Percentages shown based on Fund net assets)

   January 31, 2022

 

SECURITY

         SHARES      VALUE  

Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - (continued)

       

Public Storage

       51,740      $ 18,550,342  

Realty Income Corp.

       246,568        17,114,285  

STAG Industrial Inc.

       67,408        2,880,344  

STORE Capital Corp.

       107,423        3,406,383  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL REAL ESTATE

          104,331,732  
       

 

 

 
UTILITIES - 15.9%        

Electric Utilities - 10.3%

       

ALLETE Inc.

       27,517        1,756,410  

Alliant Energy Corp.

       96,934        5,802,469  

American Electric Power Co. Inc.

       207,188        18,729,795  

Avangrid Inc.

       38,347        1,791,572  

Entergy Corp.

       105,370        11,777,205  

Evergy Inc.

       117,303        7,620,003  

Eversource Energy

       118,405        10,596,063  

Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.

       45,316        1,925,930  

Pinnacle West Capital Corp.

       85,980        5,985,068  

Southern Co.

       288,026        20,014,927  
       

 

 

 

Total Electric Utilities

          85,999,442  
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 5.6%

       

Black Hills Corp.

       25,799        1,747,624  

Consolidated Edison Inc.

       186,552        16,127,421  

DTE Energy Co.

       79,861        9,617,660  

NorthWestern Corp.

       20,019        1,163,504  

Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.

       147,722        9,827,945  

WEC Energy Group Inc.

       86,188        8,363,685  
       

 

 

 

Total Multi-Utilities

          46,847,839  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL UTILITIES

          132,847,281  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS BEFORE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS

(Cost - $708,735,996)

          830,751,532  
       

 

 

 
     RATE               
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.3%        

Invesco Treasury Portfolio, Institutional Class

(Cost - $2,557,921)

     0.010     2,557,921        2,557,921  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL INVESTMENTS - 99.8%

(Cost - $711,293,917)

          833,309,453  

Other Assets in Excess of Liabilities - 0.2%

          1,624,321  
       

 

 

 

TOTAL NET ASSETS - 100.0%

        $ 834,933,774  
       

 

 

 

 

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Non-income producing security.

 

See Notes to Schedule of Investments.

 

 

 

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LEGG MASON LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF

 

Schedule of investments (unaudited) (cont’d)

 

   January 31, 2022

 

Abbreviation(s) used in this schedule:

 

REIT    — Real Estate Investment Trust

At January 31, 2022, the Fund had the following open futures contracts:

 

     Number of
Contracts
     Expiration
Date
     Notional
Amount
     Market
Value
     Unrealized
Depreciation
 
Contracts to Buy:               

E-mini S&P 500 Index

     13        3/22      $ 2,941,169      $ 2,927,763      $ (13,406

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

Legg Mason Low Volatility High Dividend 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 exchange-traded fund (“ETF”). ETFs are funds that trade like other publicly-traded securities. The Fund is designed to track an index. Similar to shares of an index mutual fund, each share of the Fund represents an ownership interest in an underlying portfolio of securities intended to track an index. 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 issued and redeemed generally in-kind for a basket of securities and/or 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 to track the investment results of the QS Low Volatility High Dividend Index (the “Underlying Index”). The Underlying Index seeks to provide more stable income through investments in stocks of profitable U.S. companies with relatively high dividend yields and lower price and earnings volatility. The Underlying Index is based on a proprietary methodology created and sponsored by Franklin Advisers, Inc. (“Franklin Advisers”), the Fund’s subadviser.

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 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.

 

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

Investments in open-end funds are valued at the closing net asset value per share of each fund on the day of valuation. Futures contracts are valued daily at the settlement price established by the board of trade or exchange on which they are traded. 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.

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the valuation process and has delegated the supervision of the daily valuation process to the Global 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

 

   

 

 

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Notes to Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued)

 

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 – 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 and liabilities carried at fair value:

 

ASSETS

 

DESCRIPTION

   QUOTED PRICES
(LEVEL 1)
     OTHER SIGNIFICANT
OBSERVABLE INPUTS
(LEVEL 2)
     SIGNIFICANT
UNOBSERVABLE
INPUTS
(LEVEL 3)
     TOTAL  

Common Stocks†

   $ 830,751,532        —          —        $ 830,751,532  

Short-Term Investments†

     2,557,921        —          —          2,557,921  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Investments

   $ 833,309,453        —          —        $ 833,309,453  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

LIABILITIES

 

DESCRIPTION

   QUOTED PRICES
(LEVEL 1)
     OTHER SIGNIFICANT
OBSERVABLE INPUTS
(LEVEL 2)
     SIGNIFICANT
UNOBSERVABLE
INPUTS

(LEVEL 3)
     TOTAL  

Other Financial Instruments:

           

Futures Contracts††

   $ 13,406        —          —        $ 13,406  

 

See Schedule of Investments for additional detailed categorizations.

 

††

Reflects the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of the instruments.

 

 

 

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