Cohen & Steers Real Estate Active ETF
$27.45−0.26 (−0.92%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.70%
- Fund size
- $22M
- 1Y return
- +9.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.26%
- Holdings
- 43
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $27.75
- 52W range
The ETF.net CSRE Grade
Score 51 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.DScore 38Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 82Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 61Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 65Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 64Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 41Category rank
Our read on CSRE
BActive real estate, run by a house that specializes in it. Cohen & Steers holds a tight book of listed property names picked bottom-up on relative value, not by index weight. Launched in 2025.
The Fund seeks total return through publicly traded real estate securities. It is actively managed using a bottom-up, relative-value process to select investments.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely active, not an index in disguise: a bottom-up, relative-value process using a proprietary valuation model to pick listed real estate securities.
- Roughly 40 holdings, so a single conviction call carries real weight instead of being diluted across hundreds of names.
- The portfolio lines up closely with what the prospectus promises: real estate equity, actively selected, no drift into whatever sector is hot.
- Trades tightly for a fund this young, and distributions come on a quarterly schedule.
Worth knowing
- 0.70% a year is above the typical active equity ETF, and a large multiple of low-cost core options like DFAU and DFAC. Active selection has to earn that gap.
- Launched in 2025, so the live record is short and risk measures rest on thin history.
- One sector, concentrated: property cycles and interest rates drive the ride here, on a very different path from a broad equity fund.
CSRE Holdings
- Stocks
- 43
- 55%
- WELL
Geography
- United States94.71%
- Canada1.89%
- United Kingdom1.63%
- Singapore1.04%
- Australia0.47%
- Bermuda0.26%
CSRE 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 | CSRE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.6% |
| 1 month | −4.6% |
| 3 months | −2.1% |
| 1 year | +9.4% |
| 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 | CSRE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.6% | |
| 2025 | +3.2% |
CSRE in the news
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CSRE Dividends
- 2.26%
- $0.63
- $0.13 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Dec 16, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.16 |
CSRE Risk
- 12.7%
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.
- 0.42
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.
- −13.0%
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.
- 0.46
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CSRE Cost
- The middle half of US Active Sector funds
- Median 0.65%
19 of the 33 US Active Sector funds charge less.