

Putnam International Stock ETF
$26.71+0.00 (+0.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $7M
- 1Y return
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- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $26.41
- 52W range
The ETF.net PGRI Grade
Score 40 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.BScore 56Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.FScore 14Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 26Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 25Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 34Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 41Category rank
Our read on PGRI
DA Putnam stock-picking team turned loose on the world outside the US: large and midsize companies across developed and emerging markets, wrapped in an ETF that opened for business in late 2025 at 0.55% a year.
The Fund seeks capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity securities of large and midsize companies outside the United States, including issuers in developed and emerging markets.
Why people hold it
- A wide passport rather than a narrow sleeve: large and midsize companies outside the US, with both developed and emerging markets in bounds, so the managers can move toward where they see the ideas.
- At 0.55% a year, it comes in under the typical actively managed international fund in its peer group. Active stock picking without the top-shelf active price tag.
- Putnam's international equity mandate inside Franklin Templeton's ETF lineup, run as a plain 1940 Act fund rather than a derivative-driven or commodity-trust structure.
Worth knowing
- It launched in October 2025, so there is no long record to lean on, and because the mandate is active there is no declared index to measure it against day to day.
- Index-driven neighbors in the same aisle, such as AVDE and DFIC, charge closer to 0.2%. The gap is the toll for having a human make the calls.
- Still a small, thinly traded fund, which tends to mean wider bid-ask spreads than the category giants, and payouts land once or twice a year rather than monthly.
PGRI Holdings
- Stocks
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- 52%
- TSM
Geography
- United Kingdom17.24%
- Japan16.02%
- Netherlands11.49%
- France9.86%
- Taiwan (Province of China)8.66%
- United States5.61%
- China5.58%
- Switzerland4.33%
- 21.22%
Developed 83% · Emerging 17%
PGRI 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 | PGRI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.0% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −3.6% |
| 1 year | — |
| 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 | PGRI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.0% | |
| 2025 | −1.1% |
PGRI in the news
PGRI Dividends
- $0.03 per share
- Irregular
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.03 |
PGRI Risk
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 0.97
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PGRI Cost
- The middle half of International Active Equity funds
- Median 0.58%
23 of the 55 International Active Equity funds charge less.