Acquirers Small and Micro Deep Value ETF
$41.85−0.59 (−1.39%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.80%
- Fund size
- $27M
- 1Y return
- +17.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.90%
- Holdings
- 101
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.08
- 52W range
The ETF.net DEEP Grade
Score 30 of 100 sits in the D 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 0Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 78Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 7Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 15Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 59Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 41Category rank
Our read on DEEP
DMost small-cap funds buy the whole haystack. DEEP runs the Acquirer's Multiple, the buyout-firm yardstick of enterprise value to operating earnings, across the smallest 75% of US stocks and keeps about 100 names. Deep value, micro-cap deep, at a boutique price.
Seeks to track the performance of the Acquirers Deep Value Index before fees and expenses. The Fund uses passive indexing and focuses on small- and micro-cap stocks selected for undervaluation, fundamental strength, liquidity, and financial resilience.
Why people hold it
- Ranks on the Acquirer's Multiple (enterprise value to operating earnings), the same yardstick activists and buyout firms use to price targets, then holds about 100 of the cheapest fundamentally strong names.bloomberg.commarketscreener.com
- Fishes in the smallest 75% of US listed stocks, reaching micro-caps that Russell 2000 trackers like IWM and VTWO largely leave on the shelf.aaii.com
- Rules-based and passive: the index does the picking and the fund replicates its components, and it has stayed close to that stated mandate.aaii.commoney.usnews.com
Worth knowing
- The 0.80% fee sits well above the 0.25% typical for its small-cap cohort, and plain trackers like VB and SCHA charge 0.03%. Boutique pricing for a niche screen.
- A small, thinly traded fund holding micro-caps. Spreads can run wider than on the cohort's heavily traded giants, so how you place the order matters more here.
- Today's small and micro deep-value mandate dates to a 2020 index change. The ticker launched in 2014 running a different, large-cap-focused strategy, so the full record is not apples to apples.prnewswire.com
DEEP Holdings
- Stocks
- 101
- 14%
- RCMT
Sectors
- Industrials24.9%
- Consumer Discr.23.4%
- Energy8.8%
- Cons. Staples8.6%
- Financials8.4%
- Health Care7.3%
- Technology6.5%
- Communication6.4%
- Materials5.8%
Geography
- United States77.66%
- Greece4.63%
- Bermuda3.61%
- Israel2.46%
- Monaco2.24%
- United Kingdom2.02%
- Canada1.46%
- Singapore1.36%
- 4.57%
Developed 22% · Emerging 78%
DEEP 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 | DEEP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +19.8% |
| 1 month | −3.9% |
| 3 months | +2.3% |
| 1 year | +17.1% |
| 3 years | +11.3% |
| 5 years | +6.3% |
| 10 years | +8.2% |
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 | DEEP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +19.8% | |
| 2025 | +5.7% | |
| 2024 | −3.0% | |
| 2023 | +22.3% | |
| 2022 | −17.7% | |
| 2021 | +35.6% | |
| 2020 | −10.2% |
DEEP in the news
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DEEP Dividends
- 1.90%
- $0.81
- $0.22 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.33 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.45 |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.0093 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Mar 25, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.34 |
| Sep 12, 2023 | Sep 14, 2023 | $0.02 |
DEEP Risk
- 18.3%
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.
- 0.40
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.
- −28.4%
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.
- 0.98
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DEEP Cost
- The middle half of US Value Index funds
- Median 0.20%
Every other US Value Index fund charges less.