Strive Enhanced Income Short Maturity ETF
$20.20−0.01 (−0.02%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.26%
- Fund size
- $511M
- 1Y return
- +3.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.50%
- Holdings
- 226
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $20.20
- 52W range
The ETF.net BUXX Grade
Score 56 of 100 sits in the B 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 23Category 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.BScore 56Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 40Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 79Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 54Category rank
Our read on BUXX
BStrive's parking spot for near-term cash: a short-maturity bond fund built to pay monthly income while damping price swings and keeping liquidity handy. Young for its category, but it stays tightly inside the job its prospectus describes.
The Fund seeks current income while aiming to reduce price volatility and preserve liquidity.
Why people hold it
- Does what the label says. The portfolio has stayed inside its stated short-maturity, income-seeking lane, one of the tighter mandate matches in the ultra-short bond group.
- Income lands monthly, spread across roughly 230 bond positions rather than a handful of big bets.
- Real scale for a young fund, with moderate day-to-day trading activity behind it instead of a thin, name-only listing.
Worth knowing
- The fee is 0.26% a year, above the ultra-short cohort median of 0.20% and well above VUSB (0.10%) or SHV (0.15%).
- Reduced price volatility is the aim, not zero. This is a bond fund, so the share price can move. A bank deposit it is not.
- Launched in 2023, so its track record is short next to ultra-short peers that have run through multiple rate cycles.
BUXX Holdings
- Bonds
- 226
- 13%
- United States Treasury Bill 12/24/2026
Geography
- United States91.57%
- Ireland3.31%
- Spain1.65%
- United Kingdom1.54%
- Luxembourg1.38%
- Canada0.55%
BUXX 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 | BUXX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.6% |
| 1 month | +0.2% |
| 3 months | +0.8% |
| 1 year | +3.8% |
| 3 years | +5.3% |
| 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 | BUXX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.6% | |
| 2025 | +4.8% | |
| 2024 | +6.2% | |
| 2023 | +2.9% |
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BUXX Dividends
- 4.50%
- $0.91
- $0.08 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.08 |
| May 28, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.07 |
BUXX Risk
- 0.5%
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.
- 1.47
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.
- −0.6%
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.
- 0.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BUXX Cost
- The middle half of Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds
- Median 0.19%
60 of the 77 Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds charge less.