BNY Mellon US Small Cap Core Equity ETF
$42.52−0.34 (−0.79%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.04%
- Fund size
- $86M
- 1Y return
- +17.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.25%
- Holdings
- 601
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.81
- 52W range
The ETF.net BKSE Grade
Score 72 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 91Category 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 53Category 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.BScore 67Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 18Category rank
Our read on BKSE
ASmall-cap indexing stripped to 0.04% a year, a fraction of what the typical fund in the category charges. About 600 US small caps, Morningstar's index, and a lot less name recognition than the household tickers.
The fund seeks to mirror the performance of the Morningstar US Small Cap Index. It normally invests nearly all assets in the index’s equity securities.
Why people hold it
- A 0.04% expense ratio sits in the cheapest tier of US small-cap index funds, well under iShares' IWM at 0.19% and a hair off Vanguard's VB and Schwab's SCHA at 0.03%.
- Roughly 600 holdings across the Morningstar US Small Cap Index, so no single name drives the fund.
- Straight index mandate: nearly all assets go into the index's own stocks, and it has been one of the tightest-tracking implementations in its peer group.
- Pays distributions quarterly, on the standard schedule for a broad equity index fund.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded and smaller than the category's household names, so bid-ask spreads can be wider and sizeable orders take more care at the screen.
- Launched in 2020, a shorter live record than small-cap funds that have run through several full market cycles.
- Small-cap stocks swing harder than large caps, and this fund holds the index as it comes with no defensive tilt.
BKSE Holdings
- Stocks
- 601
- 4%
- AVTR
Sectors
- Technology17.3%
- Financials16.0%
- Industrials14.9%
- Consumer Discr.13.6%
- Health Care11.8%
- Energy7.2%
- Real Estate6.6%
- Materials4.3%
- Utilities3.2%
- Cons. Staples3.1%
- Communication2.0%
Geography
- United States96.75%
- Bermuda1.58%
- United Kingdom0.43%
- Switzerland0.25%
- Puerto Rico0.19%
- Panama0.17%
- France0.15%
- Cayman Islands0.13%
- 0.35%
BKSE 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 | BKSE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.0% |
| 1 month | −4.7% |
| 3 months | −1.2% |
| 1 year | +17.5% |
| 3 years | +18.3% |
| 5 years | +7.9% |
| 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 | BKSE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.0% | |
| 2025 | +13.1% | |
| 2024 | +9.6% | |
| 2023 | +22.4% | |
| 2022 | −18.4% | |
| 2021 | +16.2% | |
| 2020 | +55.5% |
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BKSE Dividends
- 1.25%
- $0.53
- $0.14 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Apr 4, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Apr 5, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Oct 6, 2023 | $0.11 |
BKSE Risk
- 18.5%
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.
- 0.70
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.
- −29.1%
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.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BKSE Cost
- The middle half of US Small-Cap funds
- Median 0.20%
2 of the 17 US Small-Cap funds charge less.