Global X - Data Center & Digital Infrastructure ETF
$28.28−0.51 (−1.77%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $2.1B
- 1Y return
- +40.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.86%
- Holdings
- 25
- Volume · 30D
- 1.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.71
- 52W range
The ETF.net DTCR Grade
Score 75 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 84Category 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.AScore 80Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 80Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 31Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 95Category rank
Our read on DTCR
ALaunched in 2020, before the AI buildout hit headlines, DTCR buys the plumbing: data center REITs, cell towers, and the gear wiring them together. Roughly two dozen names, global, priced under the typical infrastructure theme fund.
DTCR seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Solactive Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure Index. Its index-based portfolio targets companies operating data centers, cellular towers, or digital-infrastructure hardware supporting communications networks.
Why people hold it
- Narrow by design: an index-based portfolio of companies operating data centers, cellular towers, or the digital-infrastructure hardware behind communications networks.assets.globalxetfs.com
- Costs 0.50% a year, a shade below the median expense ratio in its infrastructure-theme peer group.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, so buying or selling a normal-sized position seldom means hunting for the other side.
- Live since 2020, with a global mandate rather than a US-only one, and it sits in the upper half of its infrastructure cohort.
Worth knowing
- Concentrated: around 25 holdings, so a handful of tower and data center landlords set the tone for the whole fund.
- REITs sit at the core of the index, and REITs borrow heavily to build, so financing costs can matter as much as AI demand.
- Broad infrastructure funds like IFRA and IGF charge less and spread across utilities, transport and energy. DTCR trades that breadth for one theme.
DTCR Holdings
- Stocks
- 25
- 70%
- DLR
Sectors
Geography
DTCR Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
DTCR$14,089
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 | DTCR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +36.9% |
| 1 month | +1.7% |
| 3 months | −11.0% |
| 1 year | +40.9% |
| 3 years | +33.3% |
| 5 years | +11.7% |
| 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 | DTCR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +36.9% | |
| 2025 | +29.0% | |
| 2024 | +14.9% | |
| 2023 | +18.9% | |
| 2022 | −30.9% | |
| 2021 | +20.3% | |
| 2020 | +5.8% |
DTCR in the news
DTCR Dividends
- 0.86%
- $0.25
- $0.11 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 7, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 8, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 10, 2023 | $0.08 |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Jan 9, 2023 | $0.25 |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Jul 8, 2022 | $0.07 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 7, 2022 | $0.17 |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Jul 8, 2021 | $0.07 |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Jan 8, 2021 | $0.05 |
DTCR Risk
- 24.4%
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.
- 0.98
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.
- −39.0%
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.
- 1.34
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DTCR Cost
0.50%
DTCR0.50%
- The middle half of AI Data Infrastructure funds
- Median 0.65%
1 of the 12 AI Data Infrastructure funds charge less.