State Street SPDR S&P Kensho Final Frontiers ETF
$107.15−0.25 (−0.23%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $180M
- 1Y return
- +44.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.20%
- Holdings
- 37
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $107.62
- 52W range
The ETF.net ROKT Grade
Score 82 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.CScore 46Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 81Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 77Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 83Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 87Category rank
Our read on ROKT
AMost space funds stop at the atmosphere. ROKT plays both frontiers: rockets and satellites plus the hardware that explores the deep sea, wrapped in an AI-informed S&P Kensho index running since 2018.
The fund seeks to track the S&P Kensho Final Frontiers Index, targeting companies whose products and services support innovation in outer-space and deep-sea exploration through an AI-informed, quantitative index methodology.
Why people hold it
- 0.45% a year, the cheapest sticker in this cohort: ORBX runs 0.50%, while UFO, ARKX and NASA each charge 0.75%.
- The index bolts the S&P Kensho Space Index onto the deep-sea exploration names from the Kensho Drones Index, so orbit and ocean floor arrive in one ticker.ssga.com
- Trading since 2018 under the SPDR roof, and one of the strongest implementations in the space-theme group on cost, portfolio and staying power.
- Roughly 40 stocks, refreshed on the index's annual reconstitution, with cash paid quarterly.ssga.com
Worth knowing
- Trades lightly next to mainstream ETFs and carries a modest asset base; wider bid-ask spreads are the usual trade-off at that size.
- Two frontiers in roughly 40 names is a concentrated slice of the market that can move very differently from a broad index.
- The deep-sea sleeve means this is not a pure space bet: part of the portfolio never leaves the water.ssga.com
ROKT Holdings
- Stocks
- 37
- 36%
- FET
Sectors
- Industrials65.5%
- Technology19.9%
- Energy11.2%
- Communication3.4%
Geography
- United States97.79%
- Israel2.21%
ROKT Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
ROKT$14,467
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 | ROKT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +26.4% |
| 1 month | −6.5% |
| 3 months | −6.8% |
| 1 year | +44.7% |
| 3 years | +40.5% |
| 5 years | +22.6% |
| 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 | ROKT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +26.4% | |
| 2025 | +50.6% | |
| 2024 | +27.9% | |
| 2023 | +14.4% | |
| 2022 | −0.8% | |
| 2021 | +4.6% | |
| 2020 | +8.0% |
ROKT in the news
ROKT Dividends
- 0.20%
- $0.21
- $0.05 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.11 |
ROKT Risk
- 26.7%
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.
- 1.18
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.
- −23.5%
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.
- 1.43
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ROKT Cost
0.45%
ROKT0.45%
- The middle half of Space funds
- Median 0.75%
2 of the 15 Space funds charge less.