Should You Invest in the Invesco Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ)?

The Invesco Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ) was launched on 06/23/2005, and is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to offer broad exposure to the Consumer Discretionary - Leisure and Entertainment segment of the equity market.

An increasingly popular option among retail and institutional investors, passively managed ETFs offer low costs, transparency, flexibility, and tax efficiency; they are also excellent vehicles for long term investors.

Investor-friendly, sector ETFs provide many options to gain low risk and diversified exposure to a broad group of companies in particular sectors. Consumer Discretionary - Leisure and Entertainment is one of the 16 broad Zacks sectors within the Zacks Industry classification. It is currently ranked 10, placing it in bottom 38%.

Index Details

The fund is sponsored by Invesco. It has amassed assets over $323.55 million, making it one of the larger ETFs attempting to match the performance of the Consumer Discretionary - Leisure and Entertainment segment of the equity market. PEJ seeks to match the performance of the Dynamic Leisure & Entertainment Intellidex Index before fees and expenses.

The Dynamic Leisure & Entertainment Intellidex Index is comprised of stocks of U.S. leisure and entertainment companies. The Index is designed to provide capital appreciation by thoroughly evaluating companies based on a variety of investment merit criteria, including fundamental growth, stock valuation, investment timeliness and risk factors.

Costs

Expense ratios are an important factor in the return of an ETF and in the long term, cheaper funds can significantly outperform their more expensive counterparts, other things remaining the same.

Annual operating expenses for this ETF are 0.57%, making it on par with most peer products in the space.

It has a 12-month trailing dividend yield of 0.11%.

Sector Exposure and Top Holdings

Even though ETFs offer diversified exposure that minimizes single stock risk, investors should also look at the actual holdings inside the fund. Luckily, most ETFs are very transparent products that disclose their holdings on a daily basis.

This ETF has heaviest allocation in the Consumer Discretionary sector--about 62.30% of the portfolio. Telecom and Industrials round out the top three.

Looking at individual holdings, Doordash Inc (DASH) accounts for about 5.88% of total assets, followed by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd (RCL) and Sysco Corp (SYY).

The top 10 holdings account for about 45.33% of total assets under management.

Performance and Risk

The ETF has gained about 4.45% and it's up approximately 22.78% so far this year and in the past one year (as of 06/09/2025), respectively. PEJ has traded between $42.41 and $57.72 during this last 52-week period.

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