Global X - Clean Water ETF
$18.31−0.09 (−0.52%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $21M
- 1Y return
- −3.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.62%
- Holdings
- 40
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $18.36
- 52W range
The ETF.net AQWA Grade
Score 49 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 66Category 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.BScore 62Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 19Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 41Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 21Category rank
Our read on AQWA
CGlobal X's 2021 entry into water, built narrower than the old guard: roughly 40 companies worldwide working on treatment, purification, storage and distribution. The pitch is pipes and filters, not a broad utility basket.
AQWA seeks to invest in companies advancing clean-water provision, including water treatment, storage and distribution infrastructure, purification, and efficiency strategies.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.50% a year, on the cheaper side of the water fund field. A fee edge is fixed and known, unlike anything else about a theme fund.
- Follows a rules-based index (Solactive Global Clean Water Industry) rather than a manager's hunches, so the water definition is written down before the money moves.globalxetfs.com
- Mandate is global and specific: treatment, purification, storage, distribution infrastructure and efficiency, wherever those companies are listed.globalxetfs.com
Worth knowing
- Small asset base and thin trading. Bid-ask spreads can widen, and tiny funds carry more closure risk than entrenched ones.
- Roughly 40 stocks in one theme. A handful of names can drive the whole ride, up or down.
- Launched 2021, so it is the newcomer against water veterans like FIW, CGW and PHO, and it sits in the lower half of our water group on the current review.
AQWA Holdings
- Stocks
- 40
- 59%
- AWK
Sectors
- Industrials51.7%
- Utilities38.7%
- Cons. Staples3.3%
- Technology2.4%
- Consumer Discr.2.2%
- Materials1.8%
Geography
- United States67.84%
- United Kingdom15.83%
- Japan4.35%
- China3.94%
- South Korea2.39%
- Hong Kong2.31%
- Brazil1.24%
- Singapore1.21%
- 0.89%
Developed 74% · Emerging 26%
AQWA 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 | AQWA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.3% |
| 1 month | −4.4% |
| 3 months | −2.6% |
| 1 year | −3.5% |
| 3 years | +10.2% |
| 5 years | +3.5% |
| 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 | AQWA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.3% | |
| 2025 | +13.2% | |
| 2024 | +4.3% | |
| 2023 | +20.2% | |
| 2022 | −19.9% | |
| 2021 | +15.8% |
AQWA in the news
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AQWA Dividends
- 1.62%
- $0.30
- $0.13 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 7, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 8, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 10, 2023 | $0.11 |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Jan 9, 2023 | $0.14 |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Jul 8, 2022 | $0.08 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 7, 2022 | $0.17 |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Jul 8, 2021 | $0.04 |
AQWA Risk
- 15.8%
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.
- 0.32
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.
- −29.5%
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.
- 0.84
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AQWA Cost
- The middle half of Water funds
- Median 0.54%
1 of the 6 Water funds charge less.