Pacer US Cash Cows Growth ETF
$61.55−1.16 (−1.85%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $134M
- 1Y return
- +16.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.15%
- Holdings
- 52
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $62.44
- 52W range
The ETF.net BUL Grade
Score 30 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 6Category 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.BScore 69Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 24Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 52Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 42Category rank
Our read on BUL
DGrowth stocks that actually generate cash. BUL screens the growth half of the S&P 900 and keeps about 50 names that clear free cash flow and quality tests, Pacer's Cash Cows logic pointed at growth.
The Fund seeks capital appreciation by tracking the Pacer US Cash Cows Growth Index, which screens the S&P 900 Pure Growth Index and selects leading companies using free cash flow yield and quality criteria.
Why people hold it
- Cash flow is the gate, not the story. The index starts from S&P 900 pure growth names and keeps only those clearing free cash flow and quality screens.paceretfs.com
- Deliberately concentrated: about 50 holdings, so the screen actually shows up in the portfolio instead of getting diluted by hundreds of names.
- Live since 2019 and pays shareholders quarterly, with a published rules-based index behind every rebalance.
Worth knowing
- Cost is the trade-off: 0.60% a year, versus roughly 0.18% for the typical US growth fund and a few basis points at VUG or SCHG.
- Thinly traded compared with the category's giants, so spreads and order size deserve more attention here.
- A rules screen means it can look very different from a plain growth index in any given stretch, for better or worse.
BUL Holdings
- Stocks
- 52
- 44%
- NEM
Sectors
- Health Care27.1%
- Consumer Discr.25.8%
- Technology20.6%
- Materials11.3%
- Energy7.9%
- Industrials3.2%
- Cons. Staples2.7%
- Communication1.4%
Geography
- United States97.53%
- Ireland1.92%
- United Kingdom0.55%
BUL 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 | BUL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.8% |
| 1 month | −3.7% |
| 3 months | +7.2% |
| 1 year | +16.8% |
| 3 years | +21.6% |
| 5 years | +10.5% |
| 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 | BUL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.8% | |
| 2025 | +19.2% | |
| 2024 | +27.4% | |
| 2023 | +3.7% | |
| 2022 | −16.2% | |
| 2021 | +32.5% | |
| 2020 | +27.3% |
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BUL Dividends
- 0.15%
- $0.10
- $0.0061 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.0061 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Sep 10, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Jun 11, 2025 | $0.01 |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Mar 12, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.0086 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | $0.22 |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Jun 28, 2023 | $0.13 |
BUL Risk
- 13.8%
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.
- 1.15
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.
- −27.9%
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.
- 0.82
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BUL Cost
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
31 of the 35 US Growth Index funds charge less.