Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF
$32.41−0.27 (−0.81%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.59%
- Fund size
- $43M
- 1Y return
- +24.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.36%
- Holdings
- 103
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $32.61
- 52W range
The ETF.net CAFG Grade
Score 42 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 19Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 89Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 33Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 28Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 51Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 17Category rank
Our read on CAFG
CPacer's Cash Cows brand pointed down-market: roughly 100 US small caps screened for profitability, growth and momentum. A narrow, still-young sleeve of the multifactor shelf rather than another broad-market clone.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders Index.
Why people hold it
- Does what the tin says. It tracks the Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows Growth Leaders Index closely, and the portfolio reflects the advertised profitability, growth and momentum screens.paceretfs.com
- About 100 small-cap names, not a thousand. Three screens stacked into one ticker, so it acts as a distinct sleeve rather than a repackaging of the index you probably already hold.
- The mandate is legible: US equity, one named index, screens spelled out in Pacer's own fund documents. Distributions are paid quarterly.paceretfs.com
Worth knowing
- At 0.59% a year it prices like a specialist product. Most multifactor peers cost less, and broad core funds such as VONV (0.06%) or IUSG (0.04%) charge a sliver of it.
- Small asset base and thin trading, so spreads can run wider than on household-name funds. How you place the order matters more here than with a mega-fund.
- Launched in 2023, so the live record is short. Across its multifactor peer group it lands in the lower half, mostly on cost and trading friction rather than on how it follows its index.
CAFG Holdings
- Stocks
- 103
- 25%
- IRDM
Sectors
- Technology30.6%
- Health Care18.1%
- Energy13.6%
- Industrials12.1%
- Communication8.3%
- Consumer Discr.7.2%
- Cons. Staples6.5%
- Materials3.6%
Geography
- United States98.49%
- Ireland1.51%
CAFG 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 | CAFG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +29.0% |
| 1 month | −2.7% |
| 3 months | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +24.5% |
| 3 years | +17.1% |
| 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 | CAFG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +29.0% | |
| 2025 | +0.2% | |
| 2024 | +6.9% | |
| 2023 | +20.5% |
CAFG in the news
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CAFG Dividends
- 0.36%
- $0.12
- $0.02 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Mar 5, 2026 | Mar 9, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Sep 10, 2025 | $0.0086 |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Jun 11, 2025 | $0.0091 |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Mar 12, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.01 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | $0.01 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.03 |
CAFG Risk
- 18.1%
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.
- 0.59
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.
- −23.7%
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.
- 0.97
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CAFG Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
79 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.