Pacer BlueStar Engineering the Future ETF
$35.27−0.20 (−0.56%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $14M
- 1Y return
- +38.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.85%
- Holdings
- 64
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $34.70
- 52W range
The ETF.net BULD Grade
Score 51 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.BScore 65Category 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 59Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 26Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 41Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 50Category rank
Our read on BULD
CMost robotics funds stop at the robots. BULD's index keeps going up the line to 3D printing and computer-aided design, the software that draws the part before a machine builds it. Rules-based, global, roughly 60 names, 0.49%.
The fund uses a rules-based approach to provide exposure to globally listed companies and depositary receipts focused on robotics and manufacturing automation, 3D printing, or computer-aided design. It seeks to track the BlueStar Robotics and 3D Printing Index.
Why people hold it
- The mandate reaches past robots. The index covers robotics and manufacturing automation, 3D printing and computer-aided design, held through globally listed shares and depositary receipts.paceretfs.com
- Fee is 0.49%, under the median for its robotics and automation peer group. A couple of rivals go lower: BOTT at 0.35%, IBOT at 0.47%.
- Passive and rules-based. The BlueStar Robotics and 3D Printing Index sets the roughly 60 holdings, so the recipe is published rather than left to a manager's discretion.paceretfs.com
- Live since 2022 and sits in the upper half of its robotics and automation cohort in our review.
Worth knowing
- Small asset base and light trading. Bid/ask spreads can cost more than the headline fee on a given trade, especially in size.
- Roughly 60 stocks in one industrial theme, listed around the world, so moves in a narrow slice of the market and in foreign currencies show up directly.
- Distributions land annually or semiannually. This is a theme wrapper, not a cash-flow one.
BULD Holdings
- Stocks
- 64
- 65%
- PRLB
Geography
- United States57.22%
- Japan12.37%
- Netherlands8.91%
- France7.65%
- Israel5.16%
- Germany2.85%
- Belgium2.27%
- Sweden1.93%
- 1.64%
Developed 88% · Emerging 12%
BULD 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 | BULD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +36.2% |
| 1 month | −1.1% |
| 3 months | −4.4% |
| 1 year | +38.0% |
| 3 years | +24.7% |
| 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 | BULD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +36.2% | |
| 2025 | +23.2% | |
| 2024 | −4.0% | |
| 2023 | +28.3% | |
| 2022 | −11.2% |
BULD in the news
ETF.net Research hasn’t filed on BULD yet — coverage lands here as it’s written.
BULD Dividends
- 0.85%
- $0.30
- $0.30 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Jun 11, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.01 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.0089 |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Jun 28, 2023 | $0.04 |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Dec 29, 2022 | $0.01 |
BULD Risk
- 25.4%
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.
- 0.69
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.
- −27.6%
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.
- 1.63
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BULD Cost
- The middle half of Robotics & Automation funds
- Median 0.54%
4 of the 18 Robotics & Automation funds charge less.