GraniteShares Gold Trust
$42.23−0.71 (−1.67%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.17%
- Fund size
- $1.4B
- 1Y return
- +16.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- —
- Holdings
- 1
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.56
- 52W range
The ETF.net BAR Grade
Score 63 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 49Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 35Category 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.CScore 41Category rank
Our read on BAR
BReal bars in a London vault, listed one by one on the sponsor's site every day. BAR landed in 2017 as the boutique fee-fighter among gold trusts: no lending, no derivatives, a 0.17% sponsor fee.
The Trust seeks to have each Share’s value reflect the value of its gold assets after accrued expenses and liabilities, providing a simple way to invest similarly to gold.
Why people hold it
- Bullion only: the gold sits in ICBC Standard Bank's London vault, lending of the metal isn't permitted, and the trust can't hold derivatives.graniteshares.comsec.gov
- You can check the claim: the bar list is published daily, and outside inspector Bureau Veritas visits the vault twice a year, one of those visits at random.graniteshares.comgraniteshares.com
- Plain passive plumbing: mirror the LBMA Gold Price PM less expenses. It has hugged that gold benchmark very tightly.
Worth knowing
- No income here. Gold pays nothing, and the trust sells a sliver of its bullion to cover expenses, so the ounces behind each share drift down over time.graniteshares.com
- Cheaper doors to the same metal exist: GLDM and IAUM both undercut BAR's fee, and BAR is only moderately traded next to the category's volume leaders.
- Tax quirk of the wrapper: under current law, long-term gains on gold held through the trust are taxed as collectibles, at a maximum 28% rate.sec.gov
BAR Holdings
- Other
- 1
- 100%
- Physical Gold
BAR 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 | BAR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.1% |
| 1 month | −5.5% |
| 3 months | +4.1% |
| 1 year | +16.2% |
| 3 years | +31.1% |
| 5 years | +19.6% |
| 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 | BAR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.1% | |
| 2025 | +64.1% | |
| 2024 | +27.0% | |
| 2023 | +13.0% | |
| 2022 | −0.6% | |
| 2021 | −3.9% | |
| 2020 | +25.0% |
BAR in the news
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BAR Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
BAR Risk
- 18.6%
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.
- 1.34
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.
- −26.3%
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.
- 0.41
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BAR Cost
- The middle half of Physical Gold funds
- Median 0.17%
3 of the 10 Physical Gold funds charge less.