Defiance Quantum ETF
$152.72−1.71 (−1.11%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.40%
- Fund size
- $5.7B
- 1Y return
- +46.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.76%
- Holdings
- 90
- Volume · 30D
- 0.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $152.74
- 52W range
The ETF.net QTUM Grade
Score 80 of 100 sits in the A 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 86Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 74Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 65Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 76Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 91Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on QTUM
ALive since 2018, QTUM turns the quantum-computing story into a plain index fund: about 90 global names spanning quantum hardware and machine learning, for 0.40% a year.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the BlueStar® Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Index. It uses a passive indexing approach.
Why people hold it
- 0.40% a year against a 0.68% median for its AI-theme cohort, and it undercuts peers like WTAI (0.45%) and ALAI (0.55%).
- Rules-based by design: it tracks the BlueStar Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Index, so no manager is hand-picking which quantum story wins.
- About 90 holdings across global markets, so the theme rides on a basket instead of two or three pure plays.
- Size and liquidity back it up: a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, and one of the stronger implementations in its thematic peer group.
Worth knowing
- Risk is the softest part of the profile. One narrow, early-stage theme in a single asset class means sharper swings than a broad-market fund.
- The index covers machine learning as well as quantum, so part of the basket is familiar AI exposure rather than quantum specialists.
- Distributions come quarterly, but a growth theme like this is not built around income.
QTUM Holdings
- Stocks
- 90
- 17%
- 3443.TW
Sectors
- Technology79.0%
- Industrials10.1%
- Communication6.8%
- Consumer Discr.2.5%
- Health Care1.6%
Geography
- United States58.96%
- Japan8.95%
- Taiwan8.05%
- Netherlands6.80%
- United Kingdom2.82%
- Canada2.47%
- China2.04%
- Switzerland1.98%
- 7.93%
Developed 70% · Emerging 30%
QTUM Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
QTUM$14,675
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 | QTUM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +41.3% |
| 1 month | +2.6% |
| 3 months | −8.2% |
| 1 year | +46.7% |
| 3 years | +49.1% |
| 5 years | +25.5% |
| 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 | QTUM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +41.3% | |
| 2025 | +36.7% | |
| 2024 | +50.5% | |
| 2023 | +39.9% | |
| 2022 | −28.8% | |
| 2021 | +35.2% | |
| 2020 | +42.1% |
QTUM in the news
QTUM Dividends
- 0.76%
- $1.18
- $0.27 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.45 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.09 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 | $0.15 |
QTUM Risk
- 28.3%
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.
- 1.28
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.
- −38.4%
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.
- 1.67
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QTUM Cost
0.40%
QTUM0.40%
- The middle half of Artificial Intelligence funds
- Median 0.65%
4 of the 30 Artificial Intelligence funds charge less.