Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta Japan Equity ETF
$55.63−0.57 (−1.01%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.25%
- Fund size
- $99M
- 1Y return
- +25.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.91%
- Holdings
- 159
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $55.04
- 52W range
The ETF.net GSJY Grade
Score 68 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.AScore 82Category 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 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 19Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 64Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 53Category rank
Our read on GSJY
BMost Japan ETFs just buy the market. GSJY runs Goldman's ActiveBeta screen instead, tilting a basket of roughly 220 Japanese stocks toward value, momentum, quality and low volatility for a quarter-percent fee.
The fund seeks investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta Japan Equity Index.
Why people hold it
- Four factor tilts (value, momentum, quality, low volatility) in one ticker, in a corner of the market where nearly everything else is plain cap-weighted Japan.
- 0.25% a year, half the typical fee in the Japan group. Multi-factor strategies usually cost more than the index funds they sit beside, not less.
- It hugs the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta Japan Equity Index it names, with holdings that match the stated mandate. For a rules-based fund, that is the entire job.
- Live since 2016, so the recipe has run through real Japanese market weather rather than a backtest, and it stands in the upper half of its Japan peer group.
Worth knowing
- Straight Japan exposure comes cheaper elsewhere: FLJP at 0.09% and BBJP at 0.19%. The gap is what the factor tilts cost you.
- A smaller, lightly traded fund next to the category's giants, so the spread can matter as much as the expense ratio on the way in and out.
- Those tilts cut both ways: the fund can look meaningfully different from a standard Japan index. Cash comes back once or twice a year, not quarterly.
GSJY Holdings
- Stocks
- 159
- 28%
- 8306.T
Sectors
- Industrials22.3%
- Financials20.9%
- Technology20.8%
- Consumer Discr.12.1%
- Communication6.7%
- Health Care4.7%
- Cons. Staples4.0%
- Materials3.1%
- Energy3.1%
- Utilities1.6%
- Real Estate0.8%
Geography
- Japan100.00%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
GSJY 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 | GSJY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +21.6% |
| 1 month | +3.1% |
| 3 months | +3.7% |
| 1 year | +25.7% |
| 3 years | +20.1% |
| 5 years | +9.2% |
| 10 years | +9.1% |
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 | GSJY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +21.6% | |
| 2025 | +26.2% | |
| 2024 | +8.9% | |
| 2023 | +19.2% | |
| 2022 | −16.2% | |
| 2021 | +0.4% | |
| 2020 | +13.8% |
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GSJY Dividends
- 1.91%
- $1.07
- $0.41 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.66 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.32 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Jan 2, 2024 | $0.44 |
| Jun 26, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | $0.30 |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 | $0.35 |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Jun 30, 2022 | $0.30 |
| Dec 27, 2021 | Dec 31, 2021 | $0.37 |
| Sep 24, 2021 | Sep 30, 2021 | $0.05 |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Jun 30, 2021 | $0.22 |
GSJY Risk
- 11.8%
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.
- 1.18
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.
- −31.4%
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.
- 0.92
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GSJY Cost
- The middle half of Japan funds
- Median 0.54%
3 of the 18 Japan funds charge less.