Goldman Sachs Innovate Equity ETF
$82.17−0.52 (−0.62%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $195M
- 1Y return
- +13.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.12%
- Holdings
- 474
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $82.82
- 52W range
The ETF.net GINN Grade
Score 67 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.AScore 78Category 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 78Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 30Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 81Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 60Category rank
Our read on GINN
BFive Goldman thematic ETFs walked in; one walked out. GINN bundles data, finance, health, manufacturing and consumer innovation into a single equal-weighted global basket of roughly 500 stocks, all for 0.50% a year.
The Fund seeks to track the Solactive Innovative Global Equity Index, gaining exposure to companies that may benefit from technological innovation across five themes shaping the economy.
Why people hold it
- Weight is split equally across five innovation themes: data-driven world, finance reimagined, human evolution, manufacturing revolution and new age consumer. No single fad steers the fund.solactive.com
- Roughly 500 names reaching across sectors, geographies and market caps, so innovation shows up as a broad global basket rather than a concentrated bet on a dozen US mega caps.gsam.com
- Born in November 2020 from the merger of five separate Goldman theme funds, so one 0.50% expense ratio covers ground that once took five tickers.nasdaq.com
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded and modest in size next to giant index funds, so bid-ask spreads can widen. Limit orders are the usual defense.
- A global innovation tilt has moved with bigger swings than a plain world index; these are companies valued largely on what comes next.
- Cash comes back once or twice a year, not monthly. The mandate is thematic growth exposure, not income.
GINN Holdings
- Stocks
- 474
- 16%
- AAPL
Sectors
- Technology30.8%
- Health Care21.5%
- Consumer Discr.13.5%
- Financials12.6%
- Communication10.8%
- Industrials5.3%
- Utilities1.8%
- Cons. Staples1.8%
- Energy1.2%
- Real Estate0.6%
Geography
- United States72.06%
- China6.09%
- Japan3.28%
- Switzerland1.97%
- Germany1.95%
- United Kingdom1.90%
- Netherlands1.67%
- Canada1.59%
- 9.47%
Developed 64% · Emerging 36%
GINN 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 | GINN |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.1% |
| 1 month | −0.2% |
| 3 months | +6.6% |
| 1 year | +13.0% |
| 3 years | +22.4% |
| 5 years | +7.0% |
| 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 | GINN |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.1% | |
| 2025 | +20.2% | |
| 2024 | +18.7% | |
| 2023 | +29.9% | |
| 2022 | −32.4% | |
| 2021 | +10.4% | |
| 2020 | +9.8% |
GINN in the news
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GINN Dividends
- 1.12%
- $0.92
- $0.92 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.92 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.77 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Jan 2, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Jan 3, 2023 | $0.05 |
| Sep 26, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 | $0.02 |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Jun 30, 2022 | $0.13 |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Mar 31, 2022 | $0.08 |
| Dec 27, 2021 | Dec 31, 2021 | $0.07 |
| Sep 24, 2021 | Sep 30, 2021 | $0.19 |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Jun 30, 2021 | $0.11 |
| Mar 25, 2021 | Mar 31, 2021 | $0.05 |
| Dec 24, 2020 | Dec 31, 2020 | $0.04 |
GINN Risk
- 15.9%
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.
- 0.94
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.
- −41.3%
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.
- 1.16
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GINN Cost
- The middle half of Disruptive Innovation funds
- Median 0.65%
6 of the 31 Disruptive Innovation funds charge less.