Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF
$146.49−1.10 (−0.75%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $15.3B
- 1Y return
- +13.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.91%
- Holdings
- 427
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $147.56
- 52W range
The ETF.net GSLC 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 93Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 89Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 53Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 82Category 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.AScore 78Category rank
Our read on GSLC
AGoldman's first ETF, out in 2015, packs value, momentum, quality and low volatility into one large-cap portfolio and charges 0.09% for it. Multifactor machinery at index-fund pricing, with tilts kept deliberately modest.
The Fund seeks to track the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta® U.S. Large Cap Equity Index, which provides exposure to large-capitalization U.S. issuers.
Why people hold it
- 0.09% a year, against a roughly 0.32% median for US multifactor funds. Factor exposure priced like plain beta.
- Four factors (value, momentum, quality, low volatility) each get their own sleeve, combined in equal weights and rebalanced quarterly. No guessing which style leads.sec.gov
- The index rules include a turnover minimization step that skips trades not worth making, which holds down the churn factor strategies are known for.solactive.com
- A multi-billion-dollar fund running since 2015 that tracks its index tightly, and one of the strongest implementations in the US multifactor group.
Worth knowing
- About 400 large-cap US names drawn from a broad reference index, so the tilts are a nudge on top of the market rather than a break from it.sec.gov
- Cheaper cohort options exist (VYM at 0.04%, VONV at 0.06%), the trade-off being a single style instead of four blended together.
- A proprietary Goldman index, not a household benchmark, so results can part ways with the standard large-cap yardstick in either direction. Pays quarterly.
GSLC Holdings
- Stocks
- 427
- 36%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology38.9%
- Financials11.3%
- Health Care9.9%
- Communication9.8%
- Consumer Discr.9.1%
- Industrials7.4%
- Cons. Staples5.4%
- Energy3.6%
- Utilities1.8%
- Materials1.8%
- Real Estate1.2%
Geography
- United States97.42%
- Ireland0.85%
- Australia0.55%
- Singapore0.38%
- United Kingdom0.32%
- Switzerland0.23%
- Bermuda0.13%
- Netherlands0.08%
- 0.03%
GSLC Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
GSLC$11,388
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 | GSLC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.1% |
| 1 month | +1.0% |
| 3 months | +4.6% |
| 1 year | +13.9% |
| 3 years | +21.6% |
| 5 years | +12.3% |
| 10 years | +14.6% |
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 | GSLC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.1% | |
| 2025 | +16.2% | |
| 2024 | +24.2% | |
| 2023 | +25.1% | |
| 2022 | −18.7% | |
| 2021 | +27.2% | |
| 2020 | +19.0% |
GSLC in the news
GSLC Dividends
- 0.91%
- $1.34
- $0.34 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.33 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.36 |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Jan 2, 2024 | $0.41 |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.27 |
GSLC Risk
- 12.9%
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.
- 1.11
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.
- −24.9%
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.
- 0.99
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GSLC Cost
0.09%
GSLC0.09%
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
6 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.