BNY Mellon Concentrated Growth ETF
$39.48−0.32 (−0.80%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $123M
- 1Y return
- +11.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.58%
- Holdings
- 27
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $39.78
- 52W range
The ETF.net BKCG Grade
Score 61 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 65Category 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.AScore 81Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 48Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 37Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 74Category rank
Our read on BKCG
BTwo dozen or so growth stocks and no index to hide behind. BKCG wraps a BNY Mellon conviction-growth strategy whose record dates to 1997 into an ETF, where one top holding can move the whole portfolio.
The fund invests in stocks that its sub-adviser identifies as growth companies, seeking exposure to businesses whose revenue is expected to grow faster than U.S. economic growth.
Why people hold it
- Concentration is the design, not an accident: roughly two dozen holdings, so each pick carries real weight instead of being diluted across hundreds of names.
- 0.50% a year, a shade under the median for its active growth cohort. Modest for a stock-picking mandate, though index trackers still cost less.
- The strategy's record runs back to 1997, spanning the dot-com bust, 2008 and 2020. That kind of lineage is uncommon among active ETFs.
- Lands in the upper half of a crowded field of actively managed US growth funds, and pays out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so bid/ask spreads can run wider than on the giant growth ETFs.
- No index to fall back on. Results ride on the sub-adviser's stock selection, and in a portfolio this tight a single misstep shows up fast.
- Cheaper competition sits in the same cohort: JUSA charges 0.12% and FELG 0.18%.
BKCG Holdings
- Stocks
- 27
- 57%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology38.3%
- Financials17.8%
- Communication10.7%
- Industrials10.6%
- Consumer Discr.9.7%
- Health Care7.6%
- Cons. Staples5.4%
Geography
- United States91.72%
- Taiwan (Province of China)5.10%
- United Kingdom3.18%
BKCG 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 | BKCG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.9% |
| 1 month | +2.0% |
| 3 months | +7.5% |
| 1 year | +11.8% |
| 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 | BKCG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.9% | |
| 2025 | +18.6% |
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BKCG Dividends
- 0.58%
- $0.23
- $0.06 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.13 |
BKCG Risk
- 13.3%
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.
- 1.07
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.
- −12.1%
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.
- 1.00
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BKCG Cost
- The middle half of US Active Growth funds
- Median 0.56%
29 of the 89 US Active Growth funds charge less.