ProShares Pet Care ETF
$47.80−0.77 (−1.59%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $32M
- 1Y return
- −11.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.72%
- Holdings
- 29
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $48.66
- 52W range
The ETF.net PAWZ Grade
Score 57 of 100 sits in the B 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 73Category 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 47Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 62Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.FScore 17Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on PAWZ
BOne ticker for the pet economy: vet clinics, kibble makers, animal-health labs, the retailers that ship it all. PAWZ has tracked the FactSet Pet Care Index, globally, since 2018.
The fund invests globally in companies positioned at the forefront of the pet care industry.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.50% a year, under the 0.65% median for its consumer-lifestyle peer group. Cheap for a niche theme fund, where 0.60%-plus is the norm.
- Buys the whole pet supply chain, not one slice: the mandate is global companies at the forefront of pet care, set by the FactSet Pet Care Index rather than a manager's hunches.proshares.com
- Running since 2018 and priced level with the strongest names in its cohort (MILN at 0.50%), it sits in the upper half of that peer group on our review.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded. On a given trade the bid-ask spread can cost more than a year of the expense ratio, so how you place the order matters.
- Around two dozen holdings. Concentration is the point of a theme fund and also the risk: one company's news can swing the whole basket.
- A small fund with a global mandate, so expect foreign listings, currency movement, and an asset base that keeps it off most institutional buy lists.
PAWZ Holdings
- Stocks
- 29
- 70%
- IDXX
Sectors
- Health Care36.7%
- Consumer Discr.23.4%
- Cons. Staples21.7%
- Materials6.2%
- Financials6.1%
- Technology5.9%
Geography
- United States65.81%
- United Kingdom9.44%
- France7.47%
- Switzerland4.55%
- Canada4.27%
- Sweden3.85%
- Japan2.56%
- Thailand2.05%
Developed 94% · Emerging 6%
PAWZ 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 | PAWZ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −10.8% |
| 1 month | −8.7% |
| 3 months | +5.5% |
| 1 year | −11.9% |
| 3 years | +3.2% |
| 5 years | −9.4% |
| 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 | PAWZ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −10.8% | |
| 2025 | +1.2% | |
| 2024 | +3.9% | |
| 2023 | +12.5% | |
| 2022 | −40.1% | |
| 2021 | +10.5% | |
| 2020 | +61.7% |
PAWZ in the news
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PAWZ Dividends
- 0.72%
- $0.35
- $0.17 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jul 1, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Apr 1, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.05 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | $0.09 |
| Jun 21, 2023 | Jun 28, 2023 | $0.05 |
PAWZ Risk
- 20.9%
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.
- −0.02
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.
- −50.1%
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.
- 1.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PAWZ Cost
- The middle half of Consumer Lifestyle funds
- Median 0.58%
2 of the 11 Consumer Lifestyle funds charge less.