Summary
Fidelity Advisor Materials Fund Class A is a mutual fund. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day. Positions inside: 50. The ten largest make up 61% of the fund.
- Positions
- 50
- Dividend yield
- 4.87%
What speaks for it
Nothing stands out in its favour.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 61% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 34% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- +3.3%
- 3 months
- +1.9%
- This year
- +8.1%
- 1 year
- +13%
- 3 years
- +9.4%
- 5 years
- -6.1%
- 10 years
- +39%
- Avg. market cap
- $83.1B
- P/E
- 18.7x
- Forward P/E
- 14.3x
- P/S
- 2.2x
- P/B
- 2.1x
- P/FCF
- 20.6x
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.9x
- Dividend yield
- 1.32%
- ROIC
- 7.6%
- ROE
- 15.7%
- Gross margin
- 38.7%
- Operating margin
- 22.7%
- Net margin
- 34.6%
- Payout ratio
- 24.7%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 2.0x
- Beta
- 0.87
Weighted average of the 45 largest companies, which make up 92% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 LILinde plc LIN.DE 17%
- 2 NENewmont NEM 7.9%
- 3 FCFreeport-McMoRan Inc. FCX 7.9%
- 4 ECEcolab Inc. ECL 6.4%
- 5 NUNucor Corporation NUE 4.5%
- 6 CTCorteva, Inc. CTVA 4.2%
- 7 APAir Products and Chemicals, Inc. APD 3.9%
- 8 ALAltius Minerals Corporation ALS.TO 3.6%
- 9 SHSherwin-Williams SHW 3.3%
- 10 ALAlbemarle ALB 3.2%
Positions in the fund: 50. The ten largest make up 61% of it.
Composition as of Oct 31, 2026.
Where is it spread?
By company size
- Mega cap 18%
- Large cap 64%
- Mid cap 15%
- Small cap 2.9%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M. Counted from the companies that make up 92% of the fund.
Largest size group: Large cap (64%).
What does it cost me?
We do not know the costs of this fund.
How has it done?
Growing slowly- A year on average, 10 years
- +3.3%
- Deepest drop
- -34%
- Yearly volatility
- 19%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 3.3%. Deepest drop in these years: 34% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 4.87%
- Payments a year
- 1
- Last payment
- $3.17
Over the last 12 months it paid $4.73 per share, which is 4.87% of today's price. The last payment was $3.17 on Apr 10, 2026.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Usual valuation- P/E of the companies inside
- 18.7
- Average Bulios Score
- 65 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 21%
- Fairly valued 2.7%
- Overvalued 76%
On average the companies inside trade for 18.7 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 76% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (45), which make up 92% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Can I buy it as an ETF?
A mutual fund is bought from the fund company. These ETFs hold much of the same and trade on an exchange, so an ordinary broker carries them.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FM FMAT Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF | United States | 0.08% | $572.7M | +20% | Pays out | 74% |
ZP ZPDM.DE State Street SPDR S&P U.S. Materials Select Sector UCITS ETF (Acc) | Ireland | 0.15% | $32.7M | +31% | Reinvests | 71% |
VA VAW Vanguard Materials ETF | United States | 0.09% | $4.49B | +20% | Pays out | 54% |
2B 2B7B.DE iShares S&P 500 Materials Sector UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.15% | $200.2M | +31% | Reinvests | 48% |
TR TRUM VanEck Materials TruSector ETF | United States | 0.15% | $257.8K | - | Pays out | 45% |
IY IYM iShares U.S. Basic Materials ETF | United States | 0.37% | $969.4M | +28% | Pays out | 44% |
