
BNY Mellon Global Infrastructure Income ETF
$43.09−0.42 (−0.98%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.65%
- Fund size
- $1.9B
- 1Y return
- +16.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.01%
- Holdings
- 37
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $43.38
- 52W range
The ETF.net BKGI Grade
Score 54 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.DScore 33Category 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 84Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 62Category 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.BScore 67Category rank
Our read on BKGI
CInfrastructure with an income job description. Roughly 40 dividend-paying infrastructure companies across the US, developed and emerging markets, chasing total return from growth plus income, with cash paid out quarterly.
The fund seeks long-term total return through capital growth and income, investing primarily in dividend-paying infrastructure companies.
Why people hold it
- Concentrated by design: roughly 40 dividend-paying infrastructure companies, so each name carries real weight instead of vanishing inside a sprawling index.
- Genuinely global reach, spanning US, developed and emerging market infrastructure rather than a domestic-only build-out basket.
- Income is written into the mandate, not bolted on: long-term total return from capital growth plus income, with distributions paid quarterly.
- Sits in the upper half of its infrastructure peer group, helped by a comparatively calm risk profile for a thematic equity fund.
Worth knowing
- Costs 0.65% a year, above big index rivals such as IGF (0.37%) and IFRA (0.30%). That is the price tag on the concentrated, income-tilted book.
- Launched in 2022, so the track record is short, and roughly 40 holdings means one country or one utility regulator can swing results more than a broad index.
- Moderately traded rather than a category heavyweight, so spreads can run wider than the household names. Order size and timing matter more here.
BKGI Holdings
- Stocks
- 37
- 55%
- HESM
Sectors
- Utilities42.8%
- Energy20.4%
- Industrials17.0%
- Real Estate16.6%
- Communication3.2%
Geography
- United States97.66%
- Bermuda2.34%
BKGI 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 | BKGI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.8% |
| 1 month | −2.4% |
| 3 months | −1.7% |
| 1 year | +16.6% |
| 3 years | +21.1% |
| 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 | BKGI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.8% | |
| 2025 | +37.5% | |
| 2024 | +12.4% | |
| 2023 | +9.7% | |
| 2022 | +5.8% |
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BKGI Dividends
- 3.01%
- $1.31
- $0.57 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.57 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.48 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Apr 4, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.41 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.35 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Apr 5, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Oct 6, 2023 | $0.27 |
BKGI Risk
- 13.2%
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.
- 1.19
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.
- −14.8%
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.
- 0.56
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BKGI Cost
- The middle half of Infrastructure funds
- Median 0.55%
20 of the 33 Infrastructure funds charge less.