Goldman Sachs Equal Weight U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF
$95.15−0.42 (−0.44%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $2.0B
- 1Y return
- +14.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.37%
- Holdings
- 498
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $95.41
- 52W range
The ETF.net GSEW Grade
Score 78 of 100 sits in the A 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 88Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 63Category 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 65Category rank
Our read on GSEW
AEqual weight without the equal-weight markup. GSEW spreads roughly 500 US large caps into same-size slots and charges 0.09%, well under half the typical fee in its corner of the market.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the Solactive US Large Cap Equal Weight Index.
Why people hold it
- 0.09% a year against a 0.20% median for equal-weight US large-cap peers. Only iShares' EUSA matches the price.
- Every name gets the same slot, so the largest megacap counts no more than the 500th holding. A genuinely different shape than a cap-weighted S&P fund.gsam.com
- Hugs the Solactive US Large Cap Equal Weight Index closely, one of the tightest index implementations in its peer group.
- Trading since 2017 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund, so this is an established option rather than a recent launch.
Worth knowing
- Even weights pull the mix toward the smaller members of the large-cap universe and away from megacap concentration, which has made for a bumpier ride than cap-weighted peers.
- Resetting to equal weight means more turnover than a leave-it-alone cap-weighted index, and income lands quarterly rather than monthly.
- Moderately traded, not one of the volume giants of the category, so spreads can widen outside the busiest parts of the session.
GSEW Holdings
- Stocks
- 498
- 3%
- BE
Sectors
- Technology19.7%
- Industrials15.3%
- Financials14.2%
- Health Care12.4%
- Consumer Discr.9.0%
- Cons. Staples5.7%
- Utilities5.6%
- Energy5.1%
- Materials4.7%
- Communication4.1%
- Real Estate4.1%
Geography
- United States94.99%
- Ireland2.01%
- United Kingdom0.78%
- Switzerland0.59%
- Cayman Islands0.40%
- Netherlands0.40%
- Bermuda0.40%
- Singapore0.21%
- 0.21%
GSEW 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 | GSEW |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.0% |
| 1 month | −2.8% |
| 3 months | +2.4% |
| 1 year | +14.0% |
| 3 years | +18.4% |
| 5 years | +8.7% |
| 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 | GSEW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.0% | |
| 2025 | +12.0% | |
| 2024 | +16.9% | |
| 2023 | +17.8% | |
| 2022 | −17.6% | |
| 2021 | +25.4% | |
| 2020 | +16.3% |
GSEW in the news
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GSEW Dividends
- 1.37%
- $1.31
- $0.31 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.35 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.33 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.40 |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Jan 2, 2024 | $0.44 |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.23 |
GSEW Risk
- 13.1%
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.
- 0.95
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.
- −25.8%
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.
- 0.90
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GSEW Cost
- The middle half of US Equal Weight funds
- Median 0.20%
No US Equal Weight fund charges less.