Global X Video Games & Esports ETF
$27.09−0.47 (−1.72%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $63M
- 1Y return
- −17.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.67%
- Holdings
- 40
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $27.44
- 52W range
The ETF.net HERO 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 71Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 40Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 47Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 63Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 40Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 73Category rank
Our read on HERO
BA pure play on the companies that make and monetize games: roughly 40 video game and esports names in one index fund, priced under the typical fee in its niche.
The Fund seeks to deliver investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the Solactive Video Games & Esports Index before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.50% a year, below the 0.55% median for gaming and esports funds, including VanEck's ESPO at 0.55% and Invesco's GGME at 0.71%.
- Does exactly what the label says: tracks the Solactive Video Games & Esports Index, not a broad tech basket with a few game studios sprinkled in.
- Launched in 2019, part of the first wave of gaming funds, and it grades in the upper half of its peer group.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded. Limit orders matter here, and spreads can widen when the market gets jumpy.
- About 40 stocks in one industry. Concentration cuts both ways, and the fund rides the gaming cycle with little to cushion it.
- Distributions come once or twice a year. This is a growth-theme equity fund, not an income line.
HERO Holdings
- Stocks
- 40
- 58%
- 7974.T
Sectors
- Communication91.4%
- Technology7.7%
- Industrials1.0%
Geography
- Japan38.07%
- United States18.40%
- China14.62%
- South Korea11.03%
- Taiwan4.74%
- Poland4.56%
- Sweden3.62%
- Hong Kong2.62%
- 2.34%
Developed 57% · Emerging 43%
HERO Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
HERO$8,231
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 | HERO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −6.9% |
| 1 month | +0.5% |
| 3 months | +13.4% |
| 1 year | −17.7% |
| 3 years | +15.6% |
| 5 years | +0.2% |
| 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 | HERO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −6.9% | |
| 2025 | +28.8% | |
| 2024 | +17.7% | |
| 2023 | +8.4% | |
| 2022 | −33.4% | |
| 2021 | −8.6% | |
| 2020 | +91.0% |
HERO in the news
HERO Dividends
- 1.67%
- $0.46
- $0.13 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 7, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 8, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 10, 2023 | $0.03 |
| Dec 29, 2022 | Jan 9, 2023 | $0.005 |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Jul 8, 2022 | $0.05 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 7, 2022 | $0.13 |
| Jun 29, 2021 | Jul 8, 2021 | $0.03 |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Jan 8, 2021 | $0.21 |
HERO Risk
- 18.8%
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.
- 0.47
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.
- −46.5%
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.
- 0.91
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HERO Cost
0.50%
HERO0.50%
- The middle half of Gaming, Esports & Betting funds
- Median 0.55%
2 of the 9 Gaming, Esports & Betting funds charge less.