Global X - Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF
$35.30−0.71 (−1.97%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.68%
- Fund size
- $3.4B
- 1Y return
- +0.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.49%
- Holdings
- 81
- Volume · 30D
- 0.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $35.64
- 52W range
The ETF.net BOTZ Grade
Score 49 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 35Category 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.DScore 39Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 80Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 40Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 95Category rank
Our read on BOTZ
COne of the original robotics-and-AI ETFs, running since 2016 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund: roughly 60 developed-market names covering industrial robots, factory automation and autonomous vehicles.
BOTZ seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Indxx Global Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Thematic Index. It invests primarily in companies benefiting from robotics and AI adoption, including industrial and non-industrial robotics and autonomous vehicles.
Why people hold it
- Trading since 2016 and now a multi-billion-dollar, actively traded fund, so getting in and out tends to be straightforward.
- Tracks a published Indxx robotics and AI index, so the basket is set by disclosed rules rather than a manager's stock-picking mood.
- Roughly 60 developed-market names spanning industrial and non-industrial robotics and autonomous vehicles: a concentrated theme, not mega-cap tech in disguise.
Worth knowing
- The 0.68% fee sits above the robotics cohort median, and cheaper shelf-mates exist: BOTT at 0.35%, IBOT at 0.47%.
- About 60 stocks in a single theme means one company's stumble moves this fund far more than it would a broad index.
- Distributions come once or twice a year, so it works as a theme holding rather than an income line.
BOTZ Holdings
- Stocks
- 81
- 56%
- ISRG
Sectors
- Industrials48.0%
- Technology34.5%
- Health Care8.0%
- Consumer Discr.5.6%
- Communication3.9%
- Cons. Staples0.0%
Geography
- United States33.01%
- Japan30.67%
- China19.27%
- Switzerland8.93%
- South Korea4.05%
- Taiwan1.53%
- Norway1.43%
- France0.62%
- 0.48%
Developed 63% · Emerging 37%
BOTZ Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
BOTZ$10,062
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 | BOTZ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.6% |
| 1 month | −0.1% |
| 3 months | −6.0% |
| 1 year | +0.6% |
| 3 years | +13.9% |
| 5 years | −1.2% |
| 10 years | +9.4% |
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 | BOTZ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.6% | |
| 2025 | +14.2% | |
| 2024 | +12.3% | |
| 2023 | +39.0% | |
| 2022 | −42.7% | |
| 2021 | +8.6% | |
| 2020 | +51.9% |
BOTZ in the news
BOTZ Dividends
- 0.49%
- $0.18
- $0.02 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 8, 2024 | $0.0041 |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 10, 2023 | $0.05 |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Jul 8, 2022 | $0.05 |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Jul 8, 2021 | $0.06 |
| Jun 29, 2020 | Jul 8, 2020 | $0.06 |
| Dec 30, 2019 | Jan 8, 2020 | $0.03 |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Jul 8, 2019 | $0.15 |
| Dec 28, 2018 | Jan 8, 2019 | $0.24 |
BOTZ Risk
- 23.3%
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.
- 0.35
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.
- −55.5%
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.
- 1.82
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BOTZ Cost
0.68%
BOTZ0.68%
- The middle half of Robotics & Automation funds
- Median 0.54%
11 of the 18 Robotics & Automation funds charge less.