Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta Europe Equity ETF
$48.60−0.47 (−0.95%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.25%
- Fund size
- $173M
- 1Y return
- +16.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.74%
- Holdings
- 342
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $48.82
- 52W range
The ETF.net GSEU Grade
Score 54 of 100 sits in the C 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 74Category 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.DScore 38Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 32Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 50Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 56Category rank
Our read on GSEU
CGoldman's four-factor ActiveBeta recipe (value, momentum, quality, low volatility) pointed at one continent instead of the whole world. Europe, about 400 names, 0.25% a year.
The fund seeks to closely track, before fees and expenses, the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta Europe Equity Index.
Why people hold it
- Four tilts blended in one wrapper: good value, strong momentum, high quality, low volatility. No single-factor bet to time.
- 0.25% a year, below the typical fee among international multifactor funds.
- Spreads exposure across roughly 400 European stocks, so no one name steers the portfolio.
- Trading since 2016 and sitting in the upper half of its factor peer group, with a rules-based index doing the stock picking.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded compared with plain Europe index funds, so bid-ask spreads can add to the cost of getting in and out.
- Europe only. The same ActiveBeta engine in GSIE casts a wider developed-market net, including Japan and Asia-Pacific.
- Distributions arrive on an annual or semiannual schedule, not quarterly.
GSEU Holdings
- Stocks
- 342
- 18%
- ASML.AS
Sectors
- Financials27.1%
- Industrials18.8%
- Health Care13.0%
- Technology8.8%
- Cons. Staples8.0%
- Consumer Discr.7.0%
- Materials4.8%
- Energy4.6%
- Utilities4.2%
- Communication3.2%
- Real Estate0.6%
Geography
- United Kingdom20.74%
- Switzerland14.53%
- Germany13.52%
- France13.10%
- Netherlands9.71%
- Spain6.28%
- Italy5.51%
- Sweden4.96%
- 11.66%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
GSEU 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 | GSEU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.5% |
| 1 month | −3.0% |
| 3 months | +1.9% |
| 1 year | +16.4% |
| 3 years | +18.3% |
| 5 years | +8.9% |
| 10 years | +9.4% |
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 | GSEU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.5% | |
| 2025 | +35.7% | |
| 2024 | +2.0% | |
| 2023 | +20.8% | |
| 2022 | −18.0% | |
| 2021 | +17.3% | |
| 2020 | +6.6% |
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GSEU Dividends
- 2.74%
- $1.35
- $0.93 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.93 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.83 |
| Dec 31, 2024 | Jan 7, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.59 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Jan 2, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Jun 26, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | $0.91 |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 | $0.09 |
| Sep 26, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 | $0.02 |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Jun 30, 2022 | $0.67 |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Mar 31, 2022 | $0.22 |
GSEU Risk
- 12.6%
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.
- 1.02
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.
- −33.8%
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.
- 0.83
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GSEU Cost
- The middle half of International Multifactor funds
- Median 0.35%
7 of the 30 International Multifactor funds charge less.