.The Russell 2000 may possess a profits problem.Though the small-cap mark got 10.1% in July, it's fallen about 4% so far in August, as of Thursday morning.ALPS' Paul Baiocchi records the unstable transfer to the mark's general composition, along with an estimation coming from Beauty Global presenting 40% of those providers possess damaging revenues." [Investors] have actually basically surrendered themselves to the fact that by remaining in the Russell 2000, I'm just visiting need to take the good along with the poor," the company's main ETF schemer said to CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week.To avoid the earnings nuisance, Baiocchi proposes entrepreneurs prioritize quality business, looking at even more selective exchange-traded funds such as his agency's O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Returns ETF Reveals (OUSM)." The suggestion is actually high quality firms that pay out as well as expand their dividends, and essentially, have much less dryness than their peers," he pointed out. "It makes it possible for advisors as well as financiers who have found tiny limits go sidewards for five years to be alloted to a category that's delayed." In addition to its earnings display screen, the fund has only 107 inventories u00e2 $" a fraction of what is actually inside the Russell 2000. Its own best 3 holdings are actually Tradeweb Markets, Juniper Networks and Old State International, each sitting at an approximately 2% weighting in the fund, per FactSet.Shares of the small-cap fund are down 1.5% month to day u00e2 $" outshining the Russell through much more than 2 amount factors because time.Disclaimer.