Xtrackers Cybersecurity Select Equity ETF
$49.16+0.77 (+1.58%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $6M
- 1Y return
- +28.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.56%
- Holdings
- 49
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $48.09
- 52W range
The ETF.net PSWD Grade
Score 61 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 94Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 94Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 53Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 9Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 77Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 24Category rank
Our read on PSWD
BCybersecurity at a discount: PSWD charges 0.20% for a focused basket of about 50 security names, well under half the typical fee in its category. The trade-off is scale, not strategy: it's a small 2023 launch.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Solactive Cyber Security ESG Screened Index.
Why people hold it
- Fee leader in the theme: 0.20% a year, against 0.47% for IHAK, 0.58% for CIBR and 0.60% for HACK. The category median sits at 0.50%.
- Pure-play and disciplined: roughly 50 cybersecurity companies drawn from a rules-based Solactive index, and the portfolio has tracked that benchmark closely.
- Runs on Xtrackers plumbing, the ETF arm of DWS, rather than a one-fund boutique.etf.dws.com
Worth knowing
- Small asset base and light trading volume. Spreads can run wider than at the category's household names, which matters most on larger orders.
- The screen is not permanent: Xtrackers filed to drop the index's ESG screen and rename it the Solactive Cyber Security Focus Index.sec.gov
- One theme, about 50 holdings, non-diversified by design. Expect sharper swings than a broad technology fund.
PSWD Holdings
- Stocks
- 49
- 50%
- ZS
Sectors
- Technology89.8%
- Industrials5.1%
- Communication4.3%
- Financials0.3%
- Real Estate0.2%
- Consumer Discr.0.1%
- Cons. Staples0.1%
- Health Care0.0%
- Materials0.0%
- Energy0.0%
- Utilities0.0%
Geography
- United States74.08%
- Israel4.74%
- Netherlands4.34%
- Japan3.72%
- Australia3.59%
- Canada2.95%
- China2.84%
- Denmark1.02%
- 2.70%
Developed 66% · Emerging 34%
PSWD 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 | PSWD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +46.5% |
| 1 month | +8.0% |
| 3 months | +29.6% |
| 1 year | +28.7% |
| 3 years | +25.1% |
| 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 | PSWD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +46.5% | |
| 2025 | +1.7% | |
| 2024 | +9.5% | |
| 2023 | +18.6% |
PSWD in the news
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PSWD Dividends
- 0.56%
- $0.27
- $0.04 per share
- Irregular
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 6, 2024 | Dec 13, 2024 | $0.38 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.0087 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.0093 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.13 |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Dec 14, 2023 | $0.03 |
PSWD Risk
- 22.2%
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.
- 0.79
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.
- −23.7%
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.
- 1.08
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PSWD Cost
- The middle half of Cybersecurity funds
- Median 0.47%
No Cybersecurity fund charges less.