American Century Small Cap Growth Insights ETF
$46.50−0.77 (−1.64%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $52M
- 1Y return
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- Yield · Last 12 months
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- Holdings
- 302
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.96
- 52W range
The ETF.net ACSG Grade
Score 54 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 64Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 26Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 56Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 69Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 53Category rank
Our read on ACSG
CAmerican Century's 2025 entry in active small-cap growth: it hunts U.S. small companies whose businesses are visibly improving, then spreads the bet across roughly 300 names instead of a concentrated few.
The fund is an actively managed ETF seeking to outperform its benchmark over full market cycles by investing primarily in U.S. small-cap companies showing accelerating and sustainable business improvement.
Why people hold it
- A clear thesis, actively run: U.S. small caps showing accelerating, sustainable business improvement, judged against the benchmark over full market cycles rather than quarter to quarter.res.americancentury.com
- 0.49% a year, a shade under the median active U.S. small-cap fund in its peer group. Active stock selection without the classic active price tag.
- Roughly 300 holdings, so no single small-cap blowup runs the show. Breadth closer to an index fund than to a concentrated stock picker.
- Sits in the upper half of its active U.S. small-cap peer group, with how the portfolio is built among its stronger points.
Worth knowing
- Launched in October 2025, so the track record is short and any risk read rests on a thin slice of history.
- Small asset base and light trading mean wider bid-ask spreads than the giant small-cap index funds. Limit orders matter more here.
- Systematic peers cost less: AVSC at 0.25%, DUHP at 0.20%. The fee gap is what active selection costs versus a rules-based portfolio.
ACSG Holdings
- Stocks
- 302
- 8%
- TXG
Sectors
- Health Care29.6%
- Technology21.2%
- Industrials14.6%
- Financials9.0%
- Consumer Discr.8.0%
- Energy5.3%
- Materials4.7%
- Real Estate2.3%
- Cons. Staples2.1%
- Communication1.7%
- Utilities1.5%
Geography
- United States94.03%
- Canada2.56%
- United Kingdom0.77%
- Israel0.59%
- Ireland0.54%
- France0.35%
- Italy0.30%
- Belgium0.27%
- 0.59%
ACSG Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | ACSG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.8% |
| 1 month | −4.7% |
| 3 months | −4.6% |
| 1 year | — |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | ACSG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.8% | |
| 2025 | +2.0% |
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ACSG Dividends
Listed Oct 2025. No distributions yet.
ACSG Risk
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How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
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How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
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How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.09
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ACSG Cost
- The middle half of US Active Small-Cap funds
- Median 0.55%
13 of the 39 US Active Small-Cap funds charge less.