VanEck Social Sentiment ETF
$39.46−0.48 (−1.20%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.76%
- Fund size
- $103M
- 1Y return
- +10.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.00%
- Holdings
- 76
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $39.41
- 52W range
The ETF.net BUZZ Grade
Score 41 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.FScore 10Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.DScore 28Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 28Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 89Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 71Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 73Category rank
Our read on BUZZ
CLaunched in the meme-stock spring of 2021, BUZZ turns online chatter into an index: each month it reads social posts, news and blogs, then holds the 75 large-cap US stocks the crowd is most bullish on.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the BUZZ NextGen AI US Sentiment Leaders Index. That index selects 75 large-cap U.S. stocks with the strongest positive investor sentiment based on social media, news, blogs and other online data.
Why people hold it
- The machinery is refreshingly legible: rank large-cap US names by positive sentiment across social media, news and blogs, take the top 75, cap any single stock at 3%.vaneck.comvaneck.com
- Passive and rules-based. The index reconstitutes monthly, so no manager gets to decide when the mood has shifted.vaneck.com
- The screen stays in large caps, roughly 80 positions deep, so the crowd's favorites arrive filtered to names with real trading depth.vaneck.com
- Easy to get in and out of for a niche thematic, and it has kept running long past the 2021 retail frenzy that launched it.
Worth knowing
- At 0.76% a year, it sits above the median fee in its thematic peer group. LRND (0.14%) and TECB (0.30%) run their themes for a fraction of that.
- Monthly reconstitution means the lineup churns. Chasing sentiment is the whole design, and it brings the turnover and tax friction that come with it.vaneck.com
- Not an income vehicle: it has not been paying distributions, and holdings are chosen on chatter, not valuation or earnings.
BUZZ Holdings
- Stocks
- 76
- 31%
- MRNA
Sectors
- Technology49.7%
- Communication15.5%
- Financials11.9%
- Consumer Discr.10.8%
- Health Care5.1%
- Industrials4.4%
- Cons. Staples1.4%
- Utilities0.5%
- Energy0.4%
- Materials0.3%
Geography
- United States93.08%
- Australia2.85%
- Netherlands2.50%
- Canada1.57%
BUZZ 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 | BUZZ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +22.9% |
| 1 month | +8.4% |
| 3 months | +6.6% |
| 1 year | +10.7% |
| 3 years | +38.8% |
| 5 years | +9.7% |
| 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 | BUZZ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +22.9% | |
| 2025 | +30.6% | |
| 2024 | +33.8% | |
| 2023 | +54.6% | |
| 2022 | −47.7% | |
| 2021 | −0.9% |
BUZZ in the news
ETF.net Research hasn’t filed on BUZZ yet — coverage lands here as it’s written.
BUZZ Dividends
- 0.00%
No distributions in the last 12 months.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.10 |
| Dec 19, 2022 | Dec 23, 2022 | $0.05 |
BUZZ Risk
- 31.0%
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.
- 0.88
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.
- −56.9%
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.
- 2.00
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BUZZ Cost
- The middle half of US Thematic funds
- Median 0.35%
18 of the 21 US Thematic funds charge less.