KraneShares China Technology & Semiconductor STAR 50 Index ETF
$24.07−0.57 (−2.31%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.89%
- Fund size
- $411M
- 1Y return
- +32.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- —
- Holdings
- 53
- Volume · 30D
- 0.9M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.26
- 52W range
The ETF.net KSTR Grade
Score 33 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.FScore 7Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 51Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 35Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 55Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.FScore 14Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 66Category rank
Our read on KSTR
DA concentrated way into Shanghai's Science and Technology Innovation Board: KSTR tracks the STAR 50, roughly 50 A-share tech and chip names, and no other China fund in its peer group follows that benchmark.
The Fund seeks to provide investment results that generally correspond, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the SSE Science and Technology Innovation Board 50 Index.
Why people hold it
- Tracks the SSE Science and Technology Innovation Board 50 Index, about 50 Shanghai-listed names. No other China ETF in its peer group follows the same benchmark.
- Actively traded for a niche single-country fund, so getting in and out tends to be straightforward rather than a spread-hunting exercise.
- Plain plumbing: a 1940 Act fund following a published index, run since 2021 by a China-focused specialist, with a few hundred million in assets behind it.
Worth knowing
- At 0.89% a year, it costs more than the typical China ETF in its group. That is the toll for a board most issuers skip.
- Roughly 50 stocks from one exchange board, tilted toward semiconductors, so moves land harder than in broad China funds like MCHI or FLCH.
- Across its China peer group it lands in the bottom quarter on our overall read, weighed down mainly by cost and how narrow the portfolio is.
KSTR Holdings
- Stocks
- 53
- 59%
- 688256.SS
Sectors
- Technology90.2%
- Industrials4.7%
- Health Care3.1%
- Consumer Discr.1.0%
- Energy0.6%
- Materials0.4%
Geography
- China100.00%
Developed 0% · Emerging 100%
KSTR 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 | KSTR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +32.4% |
| 1 month | +3.6% |
| 3 months | −12.5% |
| 1 year | +32.1% |
| 3 years | +25.3% |
| 5 years | +1.1% |
| 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 | KSTR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +32.4% | |
| 2025 | +42.8% | |
| 2024 | +6.1% | |
| 2023 | −17.9% | |
| 2022 | −38.5% | |
| 2021 | −1.7% |
KSTR in the news
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KSTR Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
KSTR Risk
- 43.2%
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.
- 0.55
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.
- −63.8%
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.
- 1.18
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
KSTR Cost
- The middle half of China funds
- Median 0.65%
25 of the 28 China funds charge less.