
State Street Galaxy Hedged Digital Asset Ecosystem ETF
$69.69−0.34 (−0.48%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.90%
- Fund size
- $88M
- 1Y return
- +69.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.00%
- Holdings
- 61
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $69.13
- 52W range
The ETF.net HECO Grade
Score 42 of 100 sits in the C 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 0Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 47Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 92Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 69Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 45Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on HECO
CCrypto-adjacent stocks with an airbag bolted on. HECO holds the miners, exchanges and blockchain builders, adds crypto exposure via ETFs and futures, then runs an options overlay built to damp the volatility.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in companies expected to benefit from crypto-asset and blockchain adoption, while also obtaining crypto exposure through ETFs and futures. It uses an option-overlay hedge strategy to manage overall volatility.
Why people hold it
- The hedge is the point: an option overlay sits on top of the crypto-equity basket to manage overall volatility, a different bargain than owning the sector raw.ssga.com
- Two exposures in one wrapper: operating companies expected to benefit from crypto and blockchain adoption, plus direct crypto exposure through ETFs and futures.ssga.com
- Actively managed, global mandate, roughly 60 holdings. The manager can rotate as the ecosystem shifts rather than ride a fixed index.
- Conventional 1940 Act ETF plumbing from State Street, run alongside Galaxy on the digital-asset side.
Worth knowing
- At 0.90% a year it prices above the typical fund in its crypto-equity peer group, and above its unhedged sibling DECO at 0.65%. The overlay is the upcharge.
- Thinly traded, so spreads can widen. Limit orders matter more here than in the category's heavyweights.
- Hedges cut both ways: damping volatility also means surrendering some of the sector's sharpest upswings. Short history too, with a 2024 launch.
HECO Holdings
- Stocks
- 61
- 66%
- RIOT
Sectors
Geography
HECO 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 | HECO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +76.7% |
| 1 month | +12.3% |
| 3 months | +0.8% |
| 1 year | +69.1% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | HECO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +76.7% | |
| 2025 | +14.0% | |
| 2024 | +41.0% |
HECO in the news
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HECO Dividends
- 0.00%
No distributions in the last 12 months.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.82 |
HECO Risk
- 47.9%
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.
- 1.03
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.
- −44.6%
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.
- 3.21
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HECO Cost
- The middle half of Crypto Industry Stocks funds
- Median 0.65%
Every other Crypto Industry Stocks fund charges less.