Global X - Guru Index ETF
$68.28−0.91 (−1.32%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $62M
- 1Y return
- +15.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.08%
- Holdings
- 79
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $69.15
- 52W range
The ETF.net GURU Grade
Score 32 of 100 sits in the D 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.FScore 8Category 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 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 33Category 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.CScore 52Category rank
Our read on GURU
DThe hedge fund cloner. Since 2012, GURU has tracked an index built from hedge funds' high-conviction stock ideas, distilling them into roughly 90 US names you can own in a single ticker.
The fund seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Solactive Guru Index. It is designed to generate alpha over the broad market through high-conviction ideas selected from hedge funds.
Why people hold it
- One ticker, an index of hedge funds' highest-conviction stock ideas. That is a genuinely different way to assemble a US equity sleeve.globalxetfs.com
- Rules-based, not vibes: it follows the Solactive Guru Index under a published methodology, so the selection process is there to read.assets.globalxetfs.com
- Roughly 90 US stocks spread the exposure, so the portfolio is not riding one manager's single big idea.
- Launched in 2012, which gives this strategy more than a decade of real-world history to inspect rather than a backtest.
Worth knowing
- The idea carries a price: 0.75% a year, well above the typical index wrapper near 0.45%, while plain-beta peers like SCHK and VOOV charge single-digit basis points.
- Thinly traded and modest in size, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than in giant index funds and larger orders need more care.
- It is built to look different from the broad market, so results can diverge from plain S&P 500 exposure in either direction.globalxetfs.com
GURU Holdings
- Stocks
- 79
- 16%
- CAI
Sectors
- Health Care24.9%
- Technology24.6%
- Industrials13.2%
- Financials10.4%
- Consumer Discr.7.4%
- Communication5.6%
- Energy5.2%
- Cons. Staples3.9%
- Utilities2.1%
- Materials1.4%
- Real Estate1.3%
Geography
- United States92.56%
- Canada1.37%
- Taiwan1.32%
- Ireland1.26%
- Brazil1.24%
- France1.17%
- Netherlands1.08%
GURU 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 | GURU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.7% |
| 1 month | −1.6% |
| 3 months | +0.2% |
| 1 year | +15.0% |
| 3 years | +24.2% |
| 5 years | +7.0% |
| 10 years | +12.0% |
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 | GURU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.7% | |
| 2025 | +25.4% | |
| 2024 | +23.8% | |
| 2023 | +19.3% | |
| 2022 | −27.9% | |
| 2021 | +8.2% | |
| 2020 | +25.2% |
GURU in the news
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GURU Dividends
- 0.08%
- $0.05
- $0.05 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 7, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.0068 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 8, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 10, 2023 | $0.05 |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Jan 9, 2023 | $0.06 |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Jul 8, 2022 | $0.01 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 7, 2022 | $0.04 |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Jan 8, 2021 | $0.90 |
| Jun 29, 2020 | Jul 8, 2020 | $0.30 |
| Dec 30, 2019 | Jan 8, 2020 | $0.06 |
GURU Risk
- 15.5%
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.
- 1.11
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.
- −38.4%
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.
- 0.99
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GURU Cost
- The middle half of Other Major Indexes funds
- Median 0.29%
36 of the 42 Other Major Indexes funds charge less.