CastleArk Large Growth ETF
$48.82+0.00 (+0.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.54%
- Fund size
- $347M
- 1Y return
- +10.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.01%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $48.77
- 52W range
The ETF.net CARK Grade
Score 43 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 56Category 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.DScore 37Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 23Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 37Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 60Category rank
Our read on CARK
CA Chicago boutique's large-growth playbook in ETF form: a concentrated book of big U.S. franchises picked for profitability and free cash flow rather than headline revenue growth.
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. It is an actively managed ETF investing primarily in large-capitalization common stocks through a bottom-up fundamental process focused on established growth companies with sustainable competitive advantages and strong potential free-cash-flow margins and earnings growth.
Why people hold it
- Concentrated by design. A focused portfolio of predominantly U.S. companies above $4 billion in market cap at purchase means manager conviction, not index weights, sets the shape of the fund.castleark-etfs.com
- The screen is franchise quality: businesses the team sees as harder to disrupt, with high profitability and free cash flow, which it ranks above the raw rate of revenue growth.castleark-etfs.com
- Fee sits right at the middle of its active large-growth peer group at 0.54%, so the concentration and stock picking do not come with a premium sticker.
- Not a startup strategy in a new wrapper: the ETF, launched in 2023, carries the name of a manager its co-founder started building in 1999.castleark-etfs.com
Worth knowing
- Concentration cuts both ways. With a small number of positions, one company's stumble moves this fund far more than it would a broad growth index.castleark-etfs.com
- It trades thinly. Spreads can be wider than on mega-cap growth funds, and order type and timing matter more than they do in heavily traded names.
- Cheaper competition is real: JUSA (0.12%) and FELG (0.18%) chase large-cap growth for a fraction of the fee, and our review places CARK in the lower half of this peer group.
CARK Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 64%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology54.8%
- Communication13.3%
- Financials10.4%
- Health Care8.8%
- Consumer Discr.6.7%
- Industrials6.0%
Geography
- United States99.41%
- Canada0.59%
CARK 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 | CARK |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.8% |
| 1 month | +2.1% |
| 3 months | +4.5% |
| 1 year | +10.4% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | CARK |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.8% | |
| 2025 | +10.9% | |
| 2024 | +26.5% | |
| 2023 | +3.6% |
CARK in the news
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CARK Dividends
- 0.01%
- $0.0066
- $0.0066 per share
- Irregular
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.0066 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 7, 2025 | $0.0091 |
CARK Risk
- 16.9%
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.
- 0.75
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.
- −25.2%
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.
- 1.31
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CARK Cost
- The middle half of US Active Growth funds
- Median 0.56%
39 of the 89 US Active Growth funds charge less.