State Street SPDR S&P Kensho Future Security ETF
$112.79+0.07 (+0.06%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $153M
- 1Y return
- +32.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.11%
- Holdings
- 78
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $112.67
- 52W range
The ETF.net FITE Grade
Score 81 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 85Category 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 73Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 79Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 83Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 83Category rank
Our read on FITE
AMost "security" funds mean cybersecurity. FITE reads the word wider: cyber plus border security, robotics, drones, space, wearables and AR/VR, bundled into one global index basket since 2017.
The fund seeks to track the S&P Kensho Future Security Index, targeting companies whose products and services support future security through areas such as cybersecurity, border security, robotics, drones, space, wearables, and virtual or augmented reality.
Why people hold it
- One theme, many fronts: cybersecurity, border security, robotics, drones, space, wearables and virtual/augmented reality all sit inside the same index.ssga.com
- A 0.45% fee undercuts the typical global thematic fund, and it comes from State Street's SPDR lineup rather than a one-fund boutique.
- Live since 2017, so it has traded through a full cycle of thematic hype and hangover instead of arriving on a back-test.
- Roughly 80 names spread across sectors and countries, so no single defense contractor or chipmaker steers the whole portfolio.ssga.com
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to broad index funds, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads at the moment you transact.
- Small by SPDR standards. Niche thematic funds lean on sustained investor interest to hold their scale.
- "Security" is drawn by index rules, so wearables and AR headset makers land beside the cyber and border names.
FITE Holdings
- Stocks
- 78
- 20%
- RPD
Sectors
- Technology59.2%
- Industrials32.3%
- Health Care3.6%
- Communication2.9%
- Energy2.1%
Geography
- United States92.41%
- Israel3.90%
- Brazil1.46%
- Canada1.18%
- United Kingdom1.05%
FITE 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 | FITE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +32.2% |
| 1 month | +0.6% |
| 3 months | +7.5% |
| 1 year | +32.8% |
| 3 years | +34.3% |
| 5 years | +17.3% |
| 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 | FITE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +32.2% | |
| 2025 | +27.7% | |
| 2024 | +21.6% | |
| 2023 | +28.5% | |
| 2022 | −18.0% | |
| 2021 | +14.5% | |
| 2020 | +20.4% |
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FITE Dividends
- 0.11%
- $0.12
- $0.04 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.01 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.0071 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.03 |
FITE Risk
- 22.5%
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.
- 1.13
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.
- −27.1%
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.
- 1.32
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FITE Cost
- The middle half of Global Thematic funds
- Median 0.58%
2 of the 21 Global Thematic funds charge less.