Keating Active ETF
$33.54−0.34 (−1.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.85%
- Fund size
- $123M
- 1Y return
- +18.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.45%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $33.85
- 52W range
The ETF.net KEAT Grade
Score 36 of 100 sits in the D 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.DScore 29Category 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 59Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 31Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 29Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 41Category rank
Our read on KEAT
DA boutique stock picker in a corner of the market dominated by giant quant shops. Keating runs a hand-built equity portfolio chasing both income and growth, and charges active-management prices to do it.
The Fund seeks total return through income and capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely active, not an index in disguise: holdings come from fundamental research, one company at a time, rather than a rules-based screen.
- A two-sided mandate. It targets total return from income and capital appreciation, and distributions are paid on a quarterly schedule.
- Wide toolkit for an equity fund: common stock, preferred shares, REITs and depositary receipts all sit inside the mandate, so the income can come from more than one place.
Worth knowing
- The 0.85% fee sits above the typical active US equity fund at 0.65%, and well above the cohort's highest-rated names: DFAU at 0.12%, AVLC at 0.15%, DFAC at 0.17%.
- Thinly traded and small. Bid-ask spreads tend to be wider on funds like this, which adds a cost that never shows up in the expense ratio.
- Launched in 2024, so the record is short. There is not yet enough history to see how the manager's picks behave across a full market cycle.
KEAT Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 68%
- STIP
Sectors
- Financials29.1%
- Energy22.5%
- Materials15.5%
- Cons. Staples15.4%
- Communication10.5%
- Health Care3.5%
- Industrials3.2%
- Real Estate0.4%
Geography
- United States51.46%
- Canada17.24%
- United Kingdom15.85%
- France6.55%
- Norway4.56%
- Bermuda2.48%
- Switzerland1.70%
- Netherlands0.16%
Developed 95% · Emerging 5%
KEAT 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 | KEAT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.8% |
| 1 month | −3.7% |
| 3 months | +7.1% |
| 1 year | +18.4% |
| 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 | KEAT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.8% | |
| 2025 | +22.7% | |
| 2024 | +2.4% |
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KEAT Dividends
- 2.45%
- $0.83
- $0.40 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Apr 15, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.21 |
KEAT Risk
- 12.1%
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.
- 0.96
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.
- −10.6%
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.
- 0.14
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
KEAT Cost
- The middle half of US Active Equity funds
- Median 0.70%
85 of the 124 US Active Equity funds charge less.