Kingsbarn Tactical Bond ETF
$22.47−0.17 (−0.74%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.57%
- Fund size
- $1M
- 1Y return
- +0.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.37%
- Holdings
- 8
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.84
- 52W range
The ETF.net KDRN Grade
Score 27 of 100 sits in the D band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E. A structural cap ceilings this fund at 40, so B and A are out of reach.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 4Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 64Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 40Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 0Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 30Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 31Category rank
Our read on KDRN
DMost core bond ETFs pick a duration and live with it. Kingsbarn runs a fund of bond ETFs with a 10-year Treasury futures overlay, so an active manager can dial interest-rate exposure up or down in pursuit of total return.
The Fund seeks to maximize total return.
Why people hold it
- Rate exposure is a dial, not a setting: it holds underlying bond ETFs and layers on 10-year Treasury futures, a lever the index trackers in this aisle don't pull.
- The mandate is short and global: maximize total return, actively managed, with no benchmark's bond mix to copy.
- A standard 1940 Act ETF wrapper with a live record back to its 2021 launch, and it distributes quarterly.
Worth knowing
- The tactical overlay carries a tactical price tag: 1.06% a year, against 0.03% at index-tracking core bond rivals like BND, SPAB and SCHZ.
- Small and lightly traded, so spreads and fills can be less friendly than in the category's household-name funds.
- Futures plus active calls mean returns can drift from the broad bond market in either direction, and it currently sits in the lower tier of its aggregate-bond peer group.
KDRN Holdings
- Bonds
- 8
- 100%
- IGSB
Sectors
- Financials100.0%
Geography
- United States100.00%
KDRN 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 | KDRN |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.1% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −1.1% |
| 1 year | +0.6% |
| 3 years | +3.5% |
| 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 | KDRN |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.1% | |
| 2025 | +4.7% | |
| 2024 | +1.3% | |
| 2023 | +10.1% | |
| 2022 | −12.0% | |
| 2021 | +0.1% |
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KDRN Dividends
- 3.37%
- $0.77
- $0.23 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.0098 |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.23 |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Sep 28, 2023 | $0.17 |
KDRN Risk
- 4.8%
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.
- −0.29
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.
- −15.3%
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.
- 0.76
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
KDRN Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
22 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.