Roundhill Video Games ETF
$22.38−0.29 (−1.28%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $14M
- 1Y return
- −19.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.67%
- Holdings
- 39
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.71
- 52W range
The ETF.net NERD Grade
Score 51 of 100 sits in the C 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.Not scoredRisk
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.DScore 26Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 48Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 45Category rank
Our read on NERD
CRoundhill's 2019 gaming pure play: about 40 companies that make, publish and distribute video games across console, PC, mobile and cloud, plus esports. Priced under the typical fund on the gaming shelf, though it stays small and lightly traded.
The fund focuses on companies in the video games industry, including publishers, developers, distributors of interactive gaming software for console, PC, mobile, and cloud platforms, related online gaming services, and esports.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.50%, below the 0.55% median for gaming and esports funds, level with HERO and under ESPO's 0.55%.
- A real pure play: publishers, developers and distributors spanning console, PC, mobile and cloud, plus esports and online gaming services, drawn globally rather than US only.
- Launched in 2019, an early entrant on the gaming shelf, from an issuer whose whole shop is built on thematic funds.
- Roughly 40 holdings, so a breakout franchise carries real weight instead of getting diluted across hundreds of names.
Worth knowing
- Small fund, thin volume. Spreads can widen, so limit orders and a look at the day's activity matter more here than with a mega-cap index fund.
- The prospectus names a broad global all-cap index as its reference, so performance isn't framed against a gaming-only benchmark.roundhillinvestments.com
- Distributions come once or twice a year at most. This is a growth theme, not an income line.
NERD Holdings
- Stocks
- 39
- 64%
- NTES
Sectors
- Communication86.6%
- Consumer Discr.6.4%
- Technology5.8%
- Industrials1.2%
Geography
- Japan43.44%
- United States21.88%
- China16.16%
- Korea (the Republic of)9.63%
- Poland2.79%
- Hong Kong2.36%
- Sweden1.24%
- Israel0.84%
- 1.67%
Developed 62% · Emerging 38%
NERD Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
NERD$8,061
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 | NERD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −6.2% |
| 1 month | −0.2% |
| 3 months | +14.6% |
| 1 year | −19.4% |
| 3 years | +19.3% |
| 5 years | −2.1% |
| 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 | NERD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −6.2% | |
| 2025 | +23.1% | |
| 2024 | +28.5% | |
| 2023 | +12.9% | |
| 2022 | −43.3% | |
| 2021 | −17.6% | |
| 2020 | +89.7% |
NERD in the news
NERD Dividends
- 0.67%
- $0.15
- $0.15 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.34 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.17 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 15, 2022 | $0.10 |
| Dec 23, 2021 | Dec 28, 2021 | $0.0052 |
| Dec 29, 2020 | Dec 31, 2020 | $0.32 |
| Dec 27, 2019 | Dec 31, 2019 | $0.05 |
NERD Risk
- 19.1%
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.
- 0.66
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.
- −54.1%
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.
- 0.96
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NERD Cost
0.50%
NERD0.50%
- The middle half of Gaming, Esports & Betting funds
- Median 0.55%
2 of the 9 Gaming, Esports & Betting funds charge less.