Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF
$26.76−0.17 (−0.63%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.70%
- Fund size
- $220M
- 1Y return
- +17.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.62%
- Holdings
- 122
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $27.01
- 52W range
The ETF.net ECOW Grade
Score 38 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 23Category 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.BScore 57Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 41Category 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.DScore 39Category rank
Our read on ECOW
DThe emerging-markets arm of Pacer's Cash Cows family: rank the FTSE Emerging universe by free cash flow yield, keep the 100 best, then cap any single country or sector at 20 names. Cap-weighted EM this is not.
The Fund seeks capital appreciation by screening the FTSE Emerging Markets Index for 100 emerging-market companies with high free cash flow yield.
Why people hold it
- Ranks the FTSE Emerging Markets universe on trailing free cash flow yield, holds the top 100, and weights them by the cash they actually generate, capped at 2% each.sec.gov
- Caps of 20 companies per country and per sector loosen the China-and-Taiwan grip built into standard cap-weighted emerging-markets indexes.sec.gov
- Size and liquidity screens apply before the ranking: no sub-$2B market caps, no names trading under $5M a day. Live since 2019, pays quarterly.sec.gov
Worth knowing
- Costs 0.70% a year, above the typical emerging-markets factor fund. Low-vol peers EEMV (0.25%) and EELV (0.29%) run for a fraction of that.
- Financials other than REITs are screened out entirely, so EM banks and insurers, a large slice of the asset class, never make the cut.sec.gov
- A 100-stock, deep-value portfolio can move very differently from a broad EM index of hundreds of names, in both directions.sec.gov
ECOW Holdings
- Stocks
- 122
- 22%
- TUPRS.IS
Sectors
- Communication14.5%
- Materials13.8%
- Cons. Staples13.7%
- Energy13.2%
- Industrials12.8%
- Consumer Discr.12.1%
- Utilities8.5%
- Technology6.6%
- Health Care4.7%
Geography
- China17.05%
- Brazil13.62%
- Taiwan (Province of China)13.02%
- South Africa12.97%
- Mexico8.28%
- Turkey7.87%
- Thailand5.25%
- Hong Kong4.62%
- 17.31%
Developed 5% · Emerging 95%
ECOW 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 | ECOW |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.0% |
| 1 month | −1.7% |
| 3 months | +2.7% |
| 1 year | +17.7% |
| 3 years | +17.9% |
| 5 years | +7.4% |
| 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 | ECOW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.0% | |
| 2025 | +32.5% | |
| 2024 | +3.2% | |
| 2023 | +15.8% | |
| 2022 | −19.3% | |
| 2021 | +7.5% | |
| 2020 | −2.5% |
ECOW in the news
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ECOW Dividends
- 5.62%
- $1.51
- $0.56 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | $0.56 |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.86 |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Sep 10, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Jun 11, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.55 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.62 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | $0.56 |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Jun 28, 2023 | $0.30 |
ECOW Risk
- 12.9%
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.
- 1.02
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.
- −33.3%
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.
- 0.80
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ECOW Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Factor Index funds
- Median 0.45%
7 of the 10 Emerging Markets Factor Index funds charge less.