Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta International Equity ETF
$46.73−0.71 (−1.51%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.25%
- Fund size
- $6.0B
- 1Y return
- +17.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.48%
- Holdings
- 635
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $47.04
- 52W range
The ETF.net GSIE Grade
Score 70 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 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.CScore 48Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 80Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 76Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 79Category rank
Our read on GSIE
AGoldman's ActiveBeta engine pointed at developed markets outside the US: four factor sleeves (value, momentum, quality, low volatility) blended in equal weight across roughly 600 stocks. A tilt on the index, not a bet against it.
The Fund seeks to track the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta International Equity Index, which provides exposure to equity securities of developed-market issuers outside the United States.
Why people hold it
- Value, momentum, quality and low volatility are each built as their own subindex, then combined in equal weights, so no single factor runs the portfolio.am.gs.com
- Charges 0.25% a year, below the median for international multifactor funds.
- Roughly 600 developed-market names, long only. It reweights a broad cap-weighted universe instead of cutting it to a short bet list.am.gs.com
- A multi-billion-dollar fund and one of the more liquid ways into the international factor trade.
Worth knowing
- The benchmark is Goldman's own index, not a third-party one, so the tilts follow GSAM's rules and can diverge from plain developed-ex-US exposure.am.gs.com
- Cheaper factor rivals exist: INTF at 0.16% and FDEV at 0.18%.
- Developed markets only, no emerging. Holdings trade in foreign currencies, so the dollar's swings ride along.gsam.com
GSIE Holdings
- Stocks
- 635
- 10%
- ASML.AS
Sectors
- Financials29.2%
- Industrials17.5%
- Technology9.9%
- Health Care8.9%
- Consumer Discr.8.7%
- Cons. Staples7.4%
- Materials5.7%
- Energy4.7%
- Communication3.8%
- Utilities3.3%
- Real Estate1.1%
Geography
- Japan21.78%
- United Kingdom11.39%
- Canada11.29%
- Switzerland8.14%
- Germany7.57%
- France7.31%
- Netherlands5.70%
- Australia4.24%
- 22.59%
Developed 99% · Emerging 1%
GSIE 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 | GSIE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.3% |
| 1 month | −1.5% |
| 3 months | +3.6% |
| 1 year | +17.6% |
| 3 years | +19.1% |
| 5 years | +9.1% |
| 10 years | +9.3% |
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 | GSIE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.3% | |
| 2025 | +32.5% | |
| 2024 | +5.2% | |
| 2023 | +17.0% | |
| 2022 | −15.9% | |
| 2021 | +13.3% | |
| 2020 | +7.5% |
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GSIE Dividends
- 2.48%
- $1.17
- $0.59 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.59 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.56 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Dec 31, 2024 | Jan 7, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.45 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Jan 2, 2024 | $0.15 |
GSIE Risk
- 11.5%
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.
- 1.16
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.
- −29.6%
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.
- 0.87
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GSIE Cost
- The middle half of International Multifactor funds
- Median 0.35%
7 of the 30 International Multifactor funds charge less.