Pacer Cash Cows Fund of Funds ETF
$49.78−0.48 (−0.96%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $103M
- 1Y return
- +22.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.43%
- Holdings
- 7
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.25
- 52W range
The ETF.net HERD Grade
Score 60 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 83Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 80Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 66Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 14Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.FScore 23Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 29Category rank
Our read on HERD
BPacer's whole Cash Cows family in one ticker. Rather than making you pick which free-cash-flow fund to own, HERD tracks an index built out of them, and charges 0.15% to do the sorting.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Pacer Cash Cows Fund of Funds Index. It is composed of Pacer Cash Cows ETFs, whose underlying indexes use rules-based cash-flow strategies.
Why people hold it
- One ticker, the whole herd: it holds Pacer's Cash Cows ETFs rather than individual stocks, so you skip the choose-your-flavor step.
- 0.15% a year, well under the typical fee in its multifactor peer group, which is a low sticker price for a wrapper that holds other funds.
- Runs on published rules, not hunches: the underlying indexes screen companies on cash flow, and the fund tracks the index that packages them.
- Trading since 2019, so the strategy has a live record instead of a backtest.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded. Spreads can run wider than on the household-name value ETFs, and that bites most on large or rushed orders.
- One idea applied everywhere: free cash flow. That is a value tilt, and it can look very different from a plain market-cap index.
- Cash lands once or twice a year, not monthly, so it is not wired as a steady income drip.
HERD Holdings
- Stocks
- 7
- 100%
- COWZ
Sectors
- Technology17.4%
- Health Care16.7%
- Consumer Discr.16.4%
- Industrials11.1%
- Energy11.0%
- Cons. Staples9.5%
- Communication9.2%
- Materials7.0%
- Utilities1.4%
- Real Estate0.3%
Geography
- United States100.00%
HERD 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 | HERD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.9% |
| 1 month | −3.8% |
| 3 months | +8.6% |
| 1 year | +22.9% |
| 3 years | +16.5% |
| 5 years | +11.0% |
| 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 | HERD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.9% | |
| 2025 | +19.1% | |
| 2024 | +2.9% | |
| 2023 | +20.7% | |
| 2022 | −7.0% | |
| 2021 | +28.6% | |
| 2020 | +10.6% |
HERD in the news
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HERD Dividends
- 3.43%
- $1.72
- $0.55 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2026 | Sep 9, 2026 | $0.55 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 6, 2026 | $1.17 |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Sep 11, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Jun 12, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Mar 13, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Oct 3, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.45 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 4, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 28, 2023 | $0.37 |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Jun 29, 2023 | $0.27 |
HERD Risk
- 12.6%
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.
- 0.95
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.
- −21.6%
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.
- 0.71
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HERD Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
12 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.