Beacon Unified Catalyst ETF
$30.97+0.00 (+0.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 1.48%
- Fund size
- $34M
- 1Y return
- +6.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.74%
- Holdings
- 31
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $30.45
- 52W range
The ETF.net BSR Grade
Score 25 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 8Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 56Category 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.FScore 18Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 38Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 48Category rank
Our read on BSR
DBSR skips stock picking entirely: it is an actively managed basket of Vanguard sector ETFs, built on the idea that the payoff sits in which slices of the US market you hold, not which companies. Cheap parts, active fee on top.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through an actively managed fund-of-funds structure investing in Vanguard sector ETFs.
Why people hold it
- One ticker, one decision: the manager moves weights among Vanguard sector funds, so you hold a diversified US equity mix without calling the sector rotation yourself.
- The building blocks are plain index funds, so the only moving part is sector weighting, not stock selection. Easy to see what you actually own.
- Mandate stays home: US equities only, so no currency swings or overseas markets slip into the mix.
- Conventional 1940 Act fund structure, with the daily creation and redemption plumbing and disclosure rules every US-listed ETF runs on.
Worth knowing
- Cost is the trade-off: 1.43% a year, stacked on top of the underlying Vanguard funds. Peers like DFAU (0.12%) and DFAC (0.17%) charge a sliver of that.
- A small fund that trades lightly, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than on a heavily traded sector ETF.
- Payouts land once or twice a year at most, and the fund only launched in 2023, so there is limited history behind its sector calls.
BSR Holdings
- Stocks
- 31
- 73%
- SPY
Sectors
- Technology36.2%
- Health Care9.1%
- Consumer Discr.8.9%
- Communication8.4%
- Financials7.8%
- Industrials7.2%
- Cons. Staples6.1%
- Energy5.6%
- Materials3.8%
- Utilities3.6%
- Real Estate3.4%
Geography
- United States100.00%
BSR 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 | BSR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +5.8% |
| 1 month | +0.6% |
| 3 months | +2.8% |
| 1 year | +6.7% |
| 3 years | +8.9% |
| 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 | BSR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +5.8% | |
| 2025 | +4.2% | |
| 2024 | +12.4% | |
| 2023 | +4.6% |
BSR in the news
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BSR Dividends
- 2.74%
- $0.85
- $0.85 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.85 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Jan 2, 2024 | $0.28 |
BSR Risk
- 9.7%
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.
- 0.31
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.
- −15.7%
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.
- 0.87
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BSR Cost
- The middle half of US Active Equity funds
- Median 0.70%
112 of the 124 US Active Equity funds charge less.