
BNY Mellon Concentrated International ETF
$52.33−0.43 (−0.81%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $129M
- 1Y return
- +4.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.35%
- Holdings
- 27
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $52.67
- 52W range
The ETF.net BKCI Grade
Score 32 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 1Category 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.CScore 53Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 60Category 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.AScore 77Category rank
Our read on BKCI
DMost international funds hand you hundreds of names. BKCI hands you roughly two dozen. BNY Mellon's stockpickers comb developed markets outside the US for reasonably priced companies with staying power, then actually commit.
The fund seeks long-term total return by investing mainly in equities of developed-market companies outside the United States. Its manager uses bottom-up fundamental research to select reasonably valued companies with sustainable growth prospects.
Why people hold it
- Concentration is the design, not an accident: roughly two dozen developed-market names outside the US, picked bottom-up on valuation and durable growth.
- Sits in the upper half of its small peer group of active, high-conviction international equity funds.
- Running since 2021 on an unchanged mandate: developed-market equities outside the US, aiming at long-term total return. No index to hug.
Worth knowing
- The conviction costs you: 0.75% a year runs above the peer-group median, and active rivals like CGXU and JIG charge less for similar work.
- Thinly traded and modest in assets, so spreads can run wider than on the giant international index funds.
- With only about two dozen holdings, one company's stumble lands far harder here than inside a 300-stock benchmark.
BKCI Holdings
- Stocks
- 27
- 46%
- TSM
Sectors
- Technology22.7%
- Health Care21.1%
- Industrials15.1%
- Consumer Discr.13.7%
- Materials11.3%
- Energy5.0%
- Financials4.7%
- Cons. Staples3.5%
- Real Estate2.9%
Geography
- Switzerland20.99%
- France15.53%
- Japan12.55%
- Germany12.18%
- United Kingdom7.39%
- Taiwan5.35%
- Netherlands5.09%
- Hong Kong4.92%
- 15.99%
Developed 95% · Emerging 5%
BKCI 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 | BKCI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.6% |
| 1 month | −3.1% |
| 3 months | −0.0% |
| 1 year | +4.3% |
| 3 years | +7.2% |
| 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 | BKCI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.6% | |
| 2025 | +10.0% | |
| 2024 | −2.5% | |
| 2023 | +20.3% | |
| 2022 | −20.3% | |
| 2021 | +1.1% |
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BKCI Dividends
- 1.35%
- $0.72
- $0.72 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.72 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.36 |
| Dec 28, 2022 | Jan 4, 2023 | $0.19 |
BKCI Risk
- 12.2%
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.
- 0.18
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.
- −31.0%
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.
- 0.85
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BKCI Cost
- The middle half of International Active Growth funds
- Median 0.55%
12 of the 14 International Active Growth funds charge less.