Gabelli Global Technology Leaders ETF
$40.89+0.00 (+0.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.90%
- Fund size
- $15M
- 1Y return
- +25.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.81%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $40.20
- 52W range
The ETF.net GGTL Grade
Score 17 of 100 sits in the F 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 4Category 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 61Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 4Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 10Category rank
Our read on GGTL
FGabelli's stock-picking answer to the tech index giants: an actively run, go-anywhere portfolio aiming at capital appreciation with a robotics and automation tilt. Small, hands-on, and priced like the boutique it is at 0.90%.
The fund's objective is to achieve capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed rather than index-bound, so the manager can hold tech leaders wherever they list. The mandate is explicitly global, not US-only.
- The robotics and automation tilt is a sharper cut than broad tech, where a handful of mega-caps dominate the index trackers.
- Live since 2022, so you can judge it on a real multi-year record instead of a backtest.
Worth knowing
- At 0.90%, it costs more than double the tech cohort's 0.40% median and roughly ten times the big index options (VGT at 0.09%, XLK at 0.08%).
- A small asset base and thin trading mean wider bid-ask spreads than the category's heavily traded names.
- Active means no index to hold it to; outcomes ride on the manager's picks. Cash payouts are infrequent, on an annual or semiannual schedule.
GGTL Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 37%
- TSM
Sectors
- Technology96.0%
- Communication2.2%
- Consumer Discr.1.5%
- Industrials0.2%
Geography
- United States49.03%
- Japan29.67%
- Taiwan13.44%
- South Korea3.09%
- Israel2.52%
- United Kingdom1.40%
- Netherlands0.83%
Developed 63% · Emerging 37%
GGTL 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 | GGTL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +27.9% |
| 1 month | +6.9% |
| 3 months | −1.5% |
| 1 year | +25.2% |
| 3 years | +22.4% |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | GGTL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +27.9% | |
| 2025 | +19.8% | |
| 2024 | +11.0% | |
| 2023 | +18.2% | |
| 2022 | −15.9% |
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GGTL Dividends
- 0.81%
- $0.33
- $0.33 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 2025 | Jan 9, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 8, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.21 |
| Dec 28, 2022 | Jan 5, 2023 | $0.16 |
GGTL Risk
- 19.7%
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.
- 0.74
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.
- −23.7%
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.
- 0.86
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GGTL Cost
- The middle half of Technology (Broad) funds
- Median 0.45%
21 of the 23 Technology (Broad) funds charge less.