Roundhill Investments - Gold WeeklyPay ETF
$40.95−1.10 (−2.62%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.99%
- Fund size
- $20M
- 1Y return
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- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $41.99
- 52W range
The ETF.net GLDW Grade
Score 55 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 54Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 63Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 48Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 66Category 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.BScore 61Category rank
Our read on GLDW
BGold, geared, on a payday schedule. GLDW targets 1.2 times the SPDR Gold Trust's weekly total return before fees and distributes weekly, a milder, week-by-week take on leverage in a cohort built around 3x daily resets.
GLDW seeks weekly distributions and calendar-week returns equal to 1.2 times the weekly total return of the SPDR Gold Trust, before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- Gentle leverage by category standards: 1.2x, measured over a calendar week instead of a single day, so the compounding drag from daily resets doesn't apply the same way.roundhillinvestments.com
- Weekly payouts on a gold-linked fund, rare packaging in a corner of the market where most products pay nothing at all.roundhillinvestments.com
- 0.99% expense ratio, a touch below the typical leveraged bull fund and level with long-running names like QLD (0.98%) and DDM (0.96%).
- Bullion exposure comes through a 1940 Act fund tracking the largest US gold trust, not a futures roll or a physical vault account you manage yourself.
Worth knowing
- Payouts can include return of capital, meaning part of a distribution may be your own principal coming back rather than investment income.
- Leverage runs both directions: down weeks in gold hit 1.2x too, and results over stretches longer than one week can drift from that multiple.
- A small, lightly traded fund launched in 2025, so there's little history to judge and bid-ask spreads can be wider than in the category's veterans.
GLDW Holdings
- Stocks
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- 222%
- 78463V107 TRS 120226 NM
GLDW 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 | GLDW |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −2.6% |
| 1 month | −6.8% |
| 3 months | +3.9% |
| 1 year | — |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | GLDW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −2.6% | |
| 2025 | +7.6% |
GLDW in the news
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GLDW Dividends
- $0.19 per share
- Weekly
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Sep 15, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Sep 8, 2026 | Sep 9, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Aug 25, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Aug 18, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Aug 11, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 21, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Jul 14, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.16 |
GLDW Risk
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 0.37
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GLDW Cost
- The middle half of Leveraged Long (2x & Other) funds
- Median 0.99%
44 of the 93 Leveraged Long (2x & Other) funds charge less.