About etf.net

Every US-listed ETF has a page on etf.net, with a Grade from A to F and the figures behind it. The rules are public and the same for every fund, so you can see why any fund got its letter. Everything is free to read, and no fund pays us.

We are building the best place to analyze and compare ETFs, with the news that moves them.

Picking an ETF is harder than it should be. A fund’s name tells you little: two “emerging markets” funds can hold different things, one stocks and the other bonds. The fee table helps, but the real test is how a fund stacks up against the funds that make the same promise. By hand, that check takes hours for one fund. etf.net runs it for every fund, every day, and shows its work.

We write for people who pick their own funds, and for anyone who quotes ETF facts and needs them right.

A fund page gives you everything you need to size up an ETF in one place. Today it shows:

• the Grade, its Score and the six pillars that make both
• ETF.net Research’s read on the fund
• the price, a price chart and the key stats
• the full Holdings list
• returns over time, with distributions reinvested
• dividends and the payment history
• risk: how the fund held up when markets fell
• what the fund costs to hold
• where the fund ranks in its Category
• the latest news about the fund

More tools are on the way.

The Grade measures how well a fund does its job, compared with the funds that do the same job. Those funds are its Category, and each Grade names it. Six pillars make a Score from 0 to 100, and fixed cutoffs turn the Score into a letter. The pillars and their weights do not change: Cost 30%, Mission 25%, Risk 15%, Tradability 15%, Holdings 10% and Durability 5%.

We run the numbers every day, but one odd day cannot move a letter. A new letter must hold for three runs in a row before it replaces the old one. The full rules are on How we grade.

Not every fund can be compared fairly, and when one cannot, we would rather say so than guess. A Category needs at least five funds before any of them is graded, and a Grade needs at least four of the six pillars. If a fund falls short, its page shows Not graded with the reason, for example “Too few comparable funds”.

• We carry no advertising and no affiliate links.
• No fund pays to be graded, and none can buy a better letter or a place in a Category.
• We do not sell funds. We are not a broker or an investment adviser.
• We do not predict returns. The Grade describes where a fund stands today and says nothing about where it goes next.
• We do not rank funds across Categories. An A on a bond fund and an A on a stock fund answer different questions.
• Grades are research and opinion. They are not investment advice.

Fund data comes from a licensed market-data provider. Prices update every five minutes while US markets are open, and everything else updates overnight. The price, the Holdings, the performance table and the Grade each show their as-of date, so you can see how fresh they are. When a figure is missing, you see a dash rather than a zero.

Articles carry the byline ETF.net Research. Editors review articles, and a person reviews each change to a Category. If we withdraw an article, its page says so, and nothing else takes its place. Our Editorial standards set out how we work.

ETF Net Media, LLC publishes etf.net. Our Terms and Privacy policy give the company’s address and the legal details.

If you spot an error in a figure, a Grade or an article, write to info@etf.net with the page and what you saw. We check every report and fix what we got wrong.