Pacer Nasdaq-100 Top 50 Cash Cows Growth Leaders ETF
$32.62−0.08 (−0.25%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $49M
- 1Y return
- +35.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.06%
- Holdings
- 52
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $32.12
- 52W range
The ETF.net QQQG Grade
Score 43 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.FScore 19Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 82Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 50Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 26Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 51Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 18Category rank
Our read on QQQG
CPacer took its Cash Cows playbook up to the Nasdaq-100: screen the index for free-cash-flow strength and momentum, then keep about 50 names. A concentrated growth sleeve with a boutique price tag.
The fund seeks to track the Pacer Nasdaq-100 Top 50 Cash Cows Growth Leaders Index before fees and expenses. Its rules-based approach screens Nasdaq-100 companies using projected cash-flow and earnings measures, free-cash-flow margin, and price momentum.
Why people hold it
- Rules-based, not a stock picker's wish list. The screen ranks Nasdaq-100 companies on projected cash flow and earnings, free-cash-flow margin, and price momentum.paceretfs.com
- Concentrated on purpose: about 50 holdings instead of the full Nasdaq-100, so the cash-flow leaders the index picks carry real weight in the portfolio.
- Profitability sits inside the screen, so the roster tilts toward Nasdaq-100 names that actually convert business into free cash flow, with quarterly distributions.
Worth knowing
- 0.49% a year is a premium for growth exposure. Broad rivals such as VUG (0.03%) and SCHG (0.04%) deliver plain large-cap growth for single-digit basis points.
- Small asset base and thin trading. Spreads can run wider than the household-name growth funds, which matters most on larger or hurried orders.
- Launched in 2024, so the screen has yet to be tested across a full market cycle. Judge it on the rules, not on a long record.
QQQG Holdings
- Stocks
- 52
- 49%
- SNDK
Sectors
- Technology79.7%
- Health Care7.6%
- Industrials4.4%
- Consumer Discr.3.3%
- Energy1.8%
- Communication1.6%
- Cons. Staples1.6%
Geography
- United States92.93%
- Singapore5.11%
- Netherlands1.07%
- Uruguay0.89%
QQQG 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 | QQQG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +35.2% |
| 1 month | +5.5% |
| 3 months | −1.2% |
| 1 year | +35.8% |
| 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 | QQQG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +35.2% | |
| 2025 | +14.7% | |
| 2024 | +1.5% |
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QQQG Dividends
- 0.06%
- $0.02
- $0.01 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | $0.01 |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.0048 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.0063 |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Sep 10, 2025 | $0.0041 |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Jun 11, 2025 | $0.0031 |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Mar 12, 2025 | $0.00018 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.0092 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | $0.01 |
QQQG Risk
- 22.4%
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.
- 0.84
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.
- −23.6%
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.
- 1.44
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QQQG Cost
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
26 of the 35 US Growth Index funds charge less.