Goldman Sachs Ultra Short Bond ETF
$50.45+0.00 (+0.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $1.6B
- 1Y return
- +3.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.27%
- Holdings
- 337
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.43
- 52W range
The ETF.net GSST Grade
Score 65 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.CScore 41Category 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.BScore 57Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 47Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 85Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 77Category rank
Our read on GSST
BAn actively managed cash-parking fund that roams past T-bills into corporate, mortgage, asset-backed and CLO paper, benchmarked to the 3-month Treasury bill index. Goldman's short-duration credit desk, wrapped in a ticker.
The Fund seeks current income while preserving capital. It invests at least 80% of net assets in a broad range of U.S.-dollar-denominated bonds, including government, bank, corporate, short-term, mortgage-backed, asset-backed and CLO securities.
Why people hold it
- Actively run, not index-locked: at least 80% of assets in dollar bonds spanning government, bank, corporate, mortgage-backed, asset-backed and CLO paper.
- Spread across roughly 400 positions, so no single issuer carries the fund. Income is paid monthly.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund trading since 2019, and it sits in the upper half of its ultra-short bond peer group.
- Stated mandate is current income while preserving capital, measured against the FTSE Three-Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index rather than a longer bond benchmark.
Worth knowing
- The 0.20% fee sits right at the ultra-short median, and several highly ranked peers undercut it: VUSB at 0.10%, SHV and PULS at 0.15%.
- Reaching into corporate, asset-backed and CLO paper brings credit and liquidity risk that a pure Treasury bill fund does not carry.
- Moderately traded rather than a volume leader in its category, so spreads can matter more on larger orders.
GSST Holdings
- Bonds
- 337
- 13%
- TRGP
Sectors
- Corporate68.2%
- Securitized24.9%
- Government6.5%
- Municipal0.3%
Geography
- United States100.00%
GSST 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 | GSST |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.7% |
| 1 month | +0.1% |
| 3 months | +0.9% |
| 1 year | +3.9% |
| 3 years | +5.3% |
| 5 years | +4.0% |
| 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 | GSST |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.7% | |
| 2025 | +5.2% | |
| 2024 | +6.0% | |
| 2023 | +6.1% | |
| 2022 | +0.1% | |
| 2021 | +0.1% | |
| 2020 | +1.7% |
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GSST Dividends
- 4.27%
- $2.15
- $0.18 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 5, 2026 | $0.17 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 7, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 8, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 6, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 6, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 5, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 7, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 7, 2025 | $0.23 |
GSST Risk
- 0.6%
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.
- 1.47
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.
- −1.2%
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.
- 0.07
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GSST Cost
- The middle half of Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds
- Median 0.19%
40 of the 77 Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds charge less.