StockSnips AI-Powered Sentiment US All Cap ETF
$29.27−0.32 (−1.09%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $20M
- 1Y return
- +3.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.04%
- Holdings
- 30
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $29.78
- 52W range
The ETF.net NEWZ Grade
Score 40 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.DScore 39Category 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.DScore 31Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 41Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 65Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 25Category rank
Our read on NEWZ
CNEWZ hands stock picking to a news reader. StockSnips' proprietary model scores how positive the press coverage is on US-listed companies, then holds roughly 30 large, mid and small caps sitting at the top of that ranking.
The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund that seeks to achieve its investment objective; the cited passage does not specify a more substantive objective.
Why people hold it
- Different engine: a proprietary model ranks US-listed stocks by how positive their news coverage is, and the top names become the portfolio. Few equity ETFs run on press tone.etfarchitect.com
- Fishes the whole pond. The universe starts at every US-listed stock, with at least 80% of assets in large, mid and small cap companies, ADRs included.etfarchitect.com
- Roughly 30 positions, so each pick carries real weight rather than being diluted across hundreds of index names. It is an active fund that actually looks active.etfarchitect.com
Worth knowing
- The fee is 0.75% a year, above the typical active US equity ETF and several times the low-cost core actives in the group such as DFAC (0.17%) and AVLC (0.15%).
- A small, lightly traded fund, so bid-ask spreads tend to run wider than the big core names and sizeable orders can move the price.
- Launched in 2024, so there is only a short stretch of live data on how the sentiment model behaves through different markets.
NEWZ Holdings
- Stocks
- 30
- 36%
- CPAY
Sectors
- Financials30.1%
- Technology23.6%
- Utilities16.2%
- Communication13.2%
- Health Care10.4%
- Industrials3.3%
- Real Estate3.2%
Geography
- United States66.77%
- United Kingdom6.87%
- Japan3.46%
- Luxembourg3.41%
- Taiwan (Province of China)3.36%
- Switzerland3.36%
- Israel3.30%
- Canada3.25%
- 6.20%
Developed 70% · Emerging 30%
NEWZ 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 | NEWZ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.9% |
| 1 month | −2.4% |
| 3 months | +0.5% |
| 1 year | +3.6% |
| 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 | NEWZ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.9% | |
| 2025 | −4.1% | |
| 2024 | +15.2% |
NEWZ in the news
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NEWZ Dividends
- 0.04%
- $0.01
- $0.01 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.01 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Apr 15, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.0066 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.0073 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.04 |
NEWZ Risk
- 12.2%
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.
- 0.40
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.
- −19.4%
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.
- 0.69
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NEWZ Cost
- The middle half of US Active Equity funds
- Median 0.70%
70 of the 124 US Active Equity funds charge less.