ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF
$27.93−0.67 (−2.33%)
History starts Jan 11, 2024.
- Expense ratio
- 0.21%
- Fund size
- $2.7B
- 1Y return
- −23.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- —
- Holdings
- 1
- Volume · 30D
- 1.9M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.65
- 52W range
The ETF.net ARKB Grade
Score 68 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.BScore 59Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 47Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on ARKB
BOne of the original spot bitcoin ETFs from the January 2024 class, ARK's version built with 21Shares. It holds actual bitcoin in a grantor trust, tracks the CME CF benchmark, and prices below the category median.
The Trust seeks to track bitcoin’s performance, measured by the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate—New York Variant, after expenses and liabilities. It holds bitcoin and values its shares using the Index.
Why people hold it
- Undercuts the typical spot bitcoin fund on fee: 0.21% against a 0.25% category median, with real bitcoin in the trust rather than futures contracts.
- Tracks its stated benchmark, the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (New York Variant), very tightly, and stands in the upper half of a crowded spot bitcoin group.
- Launched in January 2024 with the first wave of US spot bitcoin funds and has since become a multi-billion-dollar, actively traded name.
Worth knowing
- Not the cheapest seat in the row: BTC lists 0.15%, BITB and HODL 0.20%, and EZBC has been running at zero.
- Pure bitcoin exposure, which means bitcoin's full swings and drawdowns. The trust makes no distributions.
- It is a grantor trust, not a registered fund, so the investor protections differ from those of a conventional ETF.
ARKB Holdings
- Other
- 1
- 100%
- BITCOIN
ARKB Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
ARKB$7,671
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 | ARKB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.5% |
| 1 month | +11.9% |
| 3 months | +33.8% |
| 1 year | −23.3% |
| 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 | ARKB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.5% | |
| 2025 | −6.6% | |
| 2024 | +99.4% |
ARKB in the news
ARKB Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
ARKB Risk
- 54.8%
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.
- 0.60
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.
- −53.3%
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.
- 2.18
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ARKB Cost
0.21%
ARKB0.21%
- The middle half of Spot Bitcoin funds
- Median 0.23%
5 of the 12 Spot Bitcoin funds charge less.