PlanRock Alternative Growth ETF
$41.59+0.00 (+0.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 1.43%
- Fund size
- $13M
- 1Y return
- +17.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.47%
- Holdings
- 28
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $41.66
- 52W range
The ETF.net PRAE Grade
Score 20 of 100 sits in the F 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 4Category 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 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 21Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 26Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 40Category rank
Our read on PRAE
FA hedge-fund playbook in an ETF wrapper: PRAE rotates across global equity segments that are trending, then adds a managed futures sleeve and a volatility hedge, aiming for low correlation to broad stocks.
Seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in common stocks and other equity securities.
Why people hold it
- Two engines, one ticker: a tactical sleeve tilting toward equity markets, sectors and factors that are working, plus managed futures that can go long or short.planrockfunds.com
- Carries a volatility hedge sleeve using volatility index futures, a downside tool most plain equity funds simply do not have.planrockfunds.com
- Futures reach across equity, commodity, currency and bond markets, so the alternative side is not just a stock fund in disguise.planrockfunds.com
Worth knowing
- Costly: a 1.43% expense ratio against a 0.65% median for active US equity ETFs, and the underlying ETFs it holds add their own fees on top.planrockfunds.com
- Core active peers like DFAC and FELC charge under 0.20%, so this strategy has a high fee bar to clear.
- Small fund, light trading. Spreads can be wide, and low correlation cuts both ways: it can lag when broad equities run.planrockfunds.com
PRAE Holdings
- Stocks
- 28
- 75%
- IWD
Sectors
Geography
PRAE 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 | PRAE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.4% |
| 1 month | +0.7% |
| 3 months | +3.2% |
| 1 year | +17.9% |
| 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 | PRAE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.4% | |
| 2025 | +13.7% | |
| 2024 | +8.6% | |
| 2023 | +0.6% |
PRAE in the news
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PRAE Dividends
- 0.47%
- $0.20
- $0.07 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jul 3, 2025 | Jul 8, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.32 |
PRAE Risk
- 13.7%
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.
- 0.65
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.
- −17.7%
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.
- 0.93
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PRAE Cost
- The middle half of International Active Equity funds
- Median 0.58%
52 of the 55 International Active Equity funds charge less.