Cambria Global Value ETF
$38.84−0.67 (−1.68%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.66%
- Fund size
- $581M
- 1Y return
- +38.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.38%
- Holdings
- 114
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $38.85
- 52W range
The ETF.net GVAL Grade
Score 67 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 71Category 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.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 65Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 83Category rank
Our read on GVAL
BCambria's global bargain hunt: a rules-based quant value screen that fishes across developed and emerging markets, actively run rather than index-hugging, on the water since 2014.
The fund seeks income and capital appreciation. It actively invests at least 80% of assets in equities of companies in developed and emerging markets with strong value characteristics, selected through Cambria’s quantitative algorithm.
Why people hold it
- Casts a wider net than most value funds: the screen reaches into emerging markets as well as developed ones, not just the usual EAFE pond.
- Actively run off a proprietary quant value screen instead of tracking a benchmark, so it can own deep-value names an index would pass over.
- Spread across roughly a hundred stocks, with income written into the stated objective alongside capital appreciation and payouts on a quarterly schedule.
- A 2014 launch means a full decade-plus of live results through several global value droughts, not a back-tested newcomer.
Worth knowing
- 0.66% a year is the toll for the active screen; index rivals in the same aisle charge less, with EFV at 0.31% and FIVA at 0.18%.
- Measured against MSCI ACWI but built nothing like it, so long stretches of looking very different from the global market come with the design.
- Trading is moderate rather than deep, so bid-ask spreads can widen when markets get jumpy.
GVAL Holdings
- Stocks
- 114
- 25%
- ATS.VI
Sectors
- Financials30.3%
- Materials12.9%
- Energy11.0%
- Utilities10.4%
- Real Estate8.5%
- Technology7.9%
- Industrials7.3%
- Communication4.8%
- Consumer Discr.3.8%
- Cons. Staples3.2%
Geography
- Austria14.76%
- Colombia12.73%
- United Kingdom9.27%
- Poland9.02%
- Thailand8.51%
- Singapore8.25%
- Hong Kong8.14%
- Czech Republic7.58%
- 21.73%
Developed 42% · Emerging 58%
GVAL 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 | GVAL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +27.9% |
| 1 month | +2.7% |
| 3 months | +6.9% |
| 1 year | +38.3% |
| 3 years | +31.3% |
| 5 years | +16.0% |
| 10 years | +11.3% |
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 | GVAL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +27.9% | |
| 2025 | +55.9% | |
| 2024 | +2.6% | |
| 2023 | +13.4% | |
| 2022 | −7.9% | |
| 2021 | +10.7% | |
| 2020 | −8.5% |
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GVAL Dividends
- 2.38%
- $0.94
- $0.26 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 21, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 22, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 23, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.46 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.97 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Apr 1, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | $0.19 |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Oct 2, 2023 | $0.29 |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Jul 3, 2023 | $0.66 |
| Mar 23, 2023 | Apr 3, 2023 | $0.16 |
GVAL Risk
- 12.5%
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.
- 1.74
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.
- −30.8%
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.
- 0.80
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GVAL Cost
- The middle half of Global Active Value funds
- Median 0.85%
4 of the 15 Global Active Value funds charge less.