ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF
$124.97−1.50 (−1.19%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $1.9B
- 1Y return
- +15.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.24%
- Holdings
- 40
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $126.49
- 52W range
The ETF.net ARKQ 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.FScore 24Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 72Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 95Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 52Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 84Category rank
Our read on ARKQ
CARK's autonomy bet, running since 2014: about 40 hand-picked stocks in robotics and autonomous tech, no index in sight. ARK posts holdings daily and emails its trades, so you can see exactly what changed and when.
The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.
Why people hold it
- Active by design: at least 80% of assets sit in autonomous technology and robotics companies ARK selects itself, held in a tight book of about 40 names.ark-funds.com
- Unusual openness for an active fund: ARK posts portfolio holdings files every trading day and sends trade information for its active ETFs to anyone who subscribes.ark-funds.com
- Launched in 2014, it is one of the longer-running names in the robotics and automation group and has grown into a multi-billion-dollar fund.
- The mandate is global, so ARK can own foreign as well as domestic robotics and autonomy companies rather than being fenced into US listings.etfs.ark-funds.com
Worth knowing
- At 0.75% a year it runs above the roughly 0.65% cohort median and well above index-built rivals like BOTT (0.35%) and IBOT (0.47%). The stock picking is what you pay for.
- Non-diversified with about 40 holdings, so a handful of positions steer the ride and single-stock news lands harder than in a broad-market fund.etfs.ark-funds.com
- Everything rides on the manager's calls: the prospectus flags management risk and the fund's dependence on the adviser's key personnel.etfs.ark-funds.com
ARKQ Holdings
- Stocks
- 40
- 57%
- TSLA
Sectors
- Industrials40.2%
- Technology31.6%
- Consumer Discr.18.6%
- Communication5.7%
- Energy1.6%
- Health Care1.3%
- Utilities0.9%
Geography
- United States88.06%
- China3.78%
- Taiwan3.67%
- Japan1.83%
- Canada1.52%
- Israel1.14%
ARKQ Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
ARKQ$11,508
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 | ARKQ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.3% |
| 1 month | +0.7% |
| 3 months | −2.7% |
| 1 year | +15.1% |
| 3 years | +34.9% |
| 5 years | +9.6% |
| 10 years | +20.0% |
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 | ARKQ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.3% | |
| 2025 | +48.8% | |
| 2024 | +33.9% | |
| 2023 | +40.7% | |
| 2022 | −46.7% | |
| 2021 | +1.8% | |
| 2020 | +107.2% |
ARKQ in the news
ARKQ Dividends
- 0.24%
- $0.31
- $0.31 per share
- Irregular
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Dec 29, 2021 | Dec 31, 2021 | $0.61 |
| Dec 29, 2020 | Dec 31, 2020 | $0.66 |
| Dec 27, 2018 | Dec 31, 2018 | $0.84 |
| Dec 27, 2017 | Dec 29, 2017 | $0.51 |
| Dec 24, 2015 | Dec 31, 2014 | $0.19 |
ARKQ Risk
- 31.4%
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.
- 0.86
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.
- −55.7%
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.
- 1.76
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ARKQ Cost
0.75%
ARKQ0.75%
- The middle half of Robotics & Automation funds
- Median 0.54%
12 of the 18 Robotics & Automation funds charge less.