Brookstone Active ETF
$36.79−0.35 (−0.95%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.95%
- Fund size
- $49M
- 1Y return
- +12.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.41%
- Holdings
- 8
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $37.11
- 52W range
The ETF.net BAMA Grade
Score 35 of 100 sits in the D 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 12Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 44Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 41Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 36Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 53Category rank
Our read on BAMA
DAn actively steered basket of other ETFs: domestic and foreign stocks, bonds, cash, even leveraged funds, with the weights free to shift as markets move. A tactical hand on the wheel instead of a fixed 60/40, priced at 0.99%.
The Fund seeks total return through active allocation among unaffiliated ETFs covering domestic and foreign equities, bonds, cash and cash equivalents, and potentially leveraged ETFs. Asset-class weightings may change with market conditions.
Why people hold it
- Wide toolkit. The manager can shift among unaffiliated equity, bond and cash ETFs, and asset-class weights are meant to move with market conditions rather than sit fixed.
- One ticker carries a whole allocation, and the rebalancing decisions sit with the manager instead of on your to-do list.
- Ordinary 1940 Act ETF plumbing, with income paid on a quarterly schedule.
Worth knowing
- The 0.99% fee runs above the typical allocation fund's 0.78%, and it stacks on top of the fees charged by the ETFs it holds. Index rivals like AOA and IRTR charge a fraction of that.
- The mandate permits leveraged ETFs in the mix, a tool that magnifies moves in both directions and makes the ride less predictable than a plain stock/bond blend.
- Launched in 2023 and thinly traded, so both the live record and the on-screen liquidity are slimmer than the category's index heavyweights. Spreads can be wider.
BAMA Holdings
- Stocks
- 8
- 100%
- SPYG
Sectors
Geography
BAMA 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 | BAMA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.1% |
| 1 month | +1.0% |
| 3 months | +1.7% |
| 1 year | +12.2% |
| 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 | BAMA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.1% | |
| 2025 | +12.6% | |
| 2024 | +15.0% | |
| 2023 | +8.5% |
BAMA in the news
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BAMA Dividends
- 1.41%
- $0.52
- $0.17 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.17 |
| May 28, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Dec 5, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Sep 8, 2025 | $0.13 |
| May 28, 2025 | Jun 4, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Nov 29, 2024 | Dec 6, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Aug 30, 2024 | Sep 9, 2024 | $0.12 |
| May 31, 2024 | Jun 7, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Jan 2, 2024 | $0.12 |
BAMA Risk
- 9.0%
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.
- 1.18
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.
- −12.3%
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.
- 0.70
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BAMA Cost
- The middle half of Multi-Asset Allocation funds
- Median 0.58%
30 of the 37 Multi-Asset Allocation funds charge less.