VictoryShares WestEnd Global Equity ETF
$34.73−0.37 (−1.06%)
- Expense ratio
- 2.01%
- Fund size
- $77M
- 1Y return
- +18.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.20%
- Holdings
- 11
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $35.06
- 52W range
The ETF.net GLOW Grade
Score 37 of 100 sits in the D 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 0Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 77Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 68Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 74Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 38Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 55Category rank
Our read on GLOW
DAn actively managed, one-ticket global stock fund from Victory Capital's WestEnd team: US and overseas, developed and emerging, in a single line item. The trade-off is the price tag, 2.01% a year, near the top of the global-equity aisle.
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- One holding covers the world map. The prospectus mandate spans issuers outside the US across developed and emerging regions, with long-term capital appreciation as the stated goal.
- The portfolio has stayed close to the global, all-equity mandate its prospectus describes, so the label matches what you actually own.
- Human stock-picking rather than an index, run by Victory Capital's WestEnd team since the June 2024 launch, with cash paid out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- The fee is the headline: 2.01% a year, against 0.15% at GSWO and 0.25% at AVGE. That gap comes out of the fund's return every year, in every market.
- Thinly traded on a modest asset base, so spreads can widen at the open and close. Limit orders matter more here than with the giants of the category.
- Launched in 2024, so the risk record is short and covers only one stretch of market weather. Not much history to judge the process by yet.
GLOW Holdings
- Stocks
- 11
- 88%
- XLK
Sectors
- Technology26.1%
- Financials21.3%
- Health Care15.8%
- Industrials8.7%
- Communication7.9%
- Consumer Discr.6.6%
- Materials4.8%
- Utilities4.1%
- Cons. Staples2.1%
- Energy1.6%
- Real Estate0.9%
Geography
- United States100.00%
GLOW 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 | GLOW |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.4% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | +2.3% |
| 1 year | +18.0% |
| 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 | GLOW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.4% | |
| 2025 | +21.3% | |
| 2024 | +4.4% |
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GLOW Dividends
- 1.20%
- $0.42
- $0.14 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Apr 10, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Oct 10, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Jul 11, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Apr 11, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Jan 8, 2025 | Jan 9, 2025 | $0.0066 |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Dec 13, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Oct 8, 2024 | Oct 9, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Jul 11, 2024 | $0.09 |
GLOW Risk
- 10.8%
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.
- 1.26
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.
- −15.6%
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.
- 0.84
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GLOW Cost
- The middle half of Global Active Equity funds
- Median 0.69%
Every other Global Active Equity fund charges less.