VanEck Video Gaming and eSports ETF
$97.98−1.05 (−1.07%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $256M
- 1Y return
- −17.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.30%
- Holdings
- 28
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $98.60
- 52W range
The ETF.net ESPO Grade
Score 60 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.CScore 51Category 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 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 78Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 55Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 84Category rank
Our read on ESPO
BVideo games, straight up. ESPO tracks a global index of game developers, esports companies and the hardware and software behind them, in a concentrated basket of roughly 30 names, running since 2018.
The ETF seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MVIS Global Video Gaming and eSports Index. The index covers companies involved in video game development, esports, and related hardware and software.
Why people hold it
- A tight read on the theme: the index covers video game development, esports, and related hardware and software, so the basket stays near the console and the code instead of drifting into general entertainment.vaneck.com
- Global mandate. Gaming's biggest publishers are listed all over the world, and ESPO's index is built to reach them rather than stopping at US-listed names.vaneck.com
- Priced at 0.55%, right at the middle of the gaming and esports ETF group, and one of the stronger overall implementations among its peers.
- Launched in 2018, making it one of the elder statesmen of gaming ETFs, with a few hundred million dollars of assets behind it.
Worth knowing
- Roughly 30 holdings. One publisher's flopped launch or blowout quarter lands harder here than it would in a broad index.
- Not the cheapest seat in the arcade: HERO and NERD both charge 0.50% for their own takes on gaming.
- Trades lighter than mainstream index funds, so spreads can widen in fast markets. Distributions come once or twice a year, not monthly.
ESPO Holdings
- Stocks
- 28
- 64%
- 7974.T
Sectors
Geography
ESPO Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
ESPO$8,258
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 | ESPO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −4.4% |
| 1 month | +0.7% |
| 3 months | +13.4% |
| 1 year | −17.4% |
| 3 years | +26.1% |
| 5 years | +10.0% |
| 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 | ESPO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −4.4% | |
| 2025 | +25.8% | |
| 2024 | +47.6% | |
| 2023 | +33.6% | |
| 2022 | −34.7% | |
| 2021 | −2.1% | |
| 2020 | +83.9% |
ESPO in the news
ESPO Dividends
- 1.30%
- $1.29
- $1.29 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $1.29 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.37 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.54 |
| Dec 19, 2022 | Dec 23, 2022 | $0.39 |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Dec 27, 2021 | $2.23 |
| Dec 21, 2020 | Dec 28, 2020 | $0.09 |
| Dec 23, 2019 | Dec 30, 2019 | $0.08 |
| Dec 20, 2018 | Dec 27, 2018 | $0.01 |
ESPO 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.
- 0.97
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.
- −48.3%
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.
- 0.98
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ESPO Cost
0.55%
ESPO0.55%
- The middle half of Gaming, Esports & Betting funds
- Median 0.55%
4 of the 9 Gaming, Esports & Betting funds charge less.