Global X - Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF
$66.08−0.65 (−0.97%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.68%
- Fund size
- $10.5B
- 1Y return
- +34.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.07%
- Holdings
- 88
- Volume · 30D
- 2.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $66.51
- 52W range
The ETF.net AIQ Grade
Score 62 of 100 sits in the B 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.CScore 43Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 70Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 67Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 74Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 82Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 90Category rank
Our read on AIQ
BAn AI fund with real mileage, trading since 2018. AIQ casts a wide net: about 80 names spanning AI developers, the companies putting AI to work, and the hardware makers feeding big-data crunching, in the US and developed markets abroad.
The fund targets companies expected to benefit from developing and using AI in products and services, along with businesses supplying hardware used for AI-driven big-data analysis.
Why people hold it
- Wide net by design: roughly 80 holdings covering AI builders, AI adopters, and the hardware behind big-data analysis, rather than a narrow chip bet.globalxetfs.com
- Live since 2018, which is a long run by AI-fund standards, and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively. Size and volume usually mean tight spreads for retail-sized orders.
- Passport included: the index reaches past US listings into developed markets abroad, so AI and chip names trading overseas can make the basket.assets.globalxetfs.com
- A rules-based index tracker that lands in the upper tier of the general-AI shelf on how the portfolio is built and how solidly it is run.
Worth knowing
- The 0.68% expense ratio sits right at the AI-cohort median, and cheaper trackers exist: XAIX at 0.35%, QTUM at 0.40%, ARTY at 0.47%.
- One theme, about 80 stocks, tech from top to bottom. When sentiment on AI turns, there is little else in the basket to soften the ride.globalxetfs.com
- Foreign names often arrive as depositary receipts, which the prospectus flags for currency and overseas-market risks US-only funds skip.assets.globalxetfs.com
AIQ Holdings
- Stocks
- 88
- 32%
- PLTR
Sectors
- Technology69.9%
- Communication12.8%
- Consumer Discr.9.1%
- Industrials7.5%
- Health Care0.6%
- Financials0.2%
Geography
- United States71.35%
- China6.11%
- South Korea5.36%
- Germany4.64%
- Taiwan4.44%
- Canada1.89%
- Japan1.68%
- Ireland1.21%
- 3.31%
Developed 43% · Emerging 57%
AIQ Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
AIQ$13,447
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 | AIQ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +31.2% |
| 1 month | +5.2% |
| 3 months | −0.6% |
| 1 year | +34.5% |
| 3 years | +35.5% |
| 5 years | +16.7% |
| 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 | AIQ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +31.2% | |
| 2025 | +31.9% | |
| 2024 | +24.1% | |
| 2023 | +55.4% | |
| 2022 | −36.4% | |
| 2021 | +17.1% | |
| 2020 | +52.9% |
AIQ in the news
AIQ Dividends
- 0.07%
- $0.05
- $0.00045 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.00045 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 7, 2025 | $0.01 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 8, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 10, 2023 | $0.03 |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Jan 9, 2023 | $0.06 |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Jul 8, 2022 | $0.06 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 7, 2022 | $0.01 |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Jul 8, 2021 | $0.04 |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Jan 8, 2021 | $0.05 |
AIQ Risk
- 24.4%
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.
- 1.05
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.
- −44.7%
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.
- 1.35
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AIQ Cost
0.68%
AIQ0.68%
- The middle half of Artificial Intelligence funds
- Median 0.65%
16 of the 30 Artificial Intelligence funds charge less.