
Simplify Government Money Market ETF
$100.29+0.02 (+0.02%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $4.5B
- 1Y return
- +3.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.70%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $100.26
- 52W range
The ETF.net SBIL Grade
Score 73 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.BScore 68Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 80Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 53Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on SBIL
AMoney market discipline in an ETF wrapper: government cash instruments, current income, stability of principal, all for 0.15% a year with monthly payouts.
The fund seeks current income while maintaining liquidity and stability of principal.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.15% a year against a 0.20% median for cash-alternative ETFs. On parked cash, the fee is the part you actually control.
- Government paper only, exactly as the mandate reads: current income with liquidity and stability of principal. No drift into corporate credit.
- One of the strongest implementations in a 22-fund cash-alternative group, and it has already crossed the billion-dollar mark.
- Distributions land monthly, and it changes hands on an exchange through the trading day rather than at a fund cutoff time.
Worth knowing
- Launched July 2025, so the history behind any risk read is short.
- ICSH runs 0.08%, so cheaper cash parking exists if the fee line is your only filter.
- Government issues only means it skips the corporate paper broader ultra-short funds like JPST can hold: steadier ingredients, different income mix.
SBIL Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 24%
- Cash and Cash Equivalents
Geography
- United States100.00%
SBIL 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 | SBIL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.6% |
| 1 month | +0.3% |
| 3 months | +0.9% |
| 1 year | +3.7% |
| 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 | SBIL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.6% | |
| 2025 | +1.9% |
SBIL in the news
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SBIL Dividends
- 3.70%
- $3.71
- $0.31 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.30 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.35 |
SBIL Risk
- 0.1%
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.
- −0.61
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.
- −0.03%
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.
- 0.002
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SBIL Cost
- The middle half of Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds
- Median 0.19%
20 of the 77 Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds charge less.