U.S. Global Sea to Sky Cargo ETF
$19.86−0.17 (−0.85%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $17M
- 1Y return
- +46.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.80%
- Holdings
- 31
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $20.48
- 52W range
The ETF.net SEA Grade
Score 34 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 7Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 73Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 30Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 63Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 44Category rank
Our read on SEA
COne ticker for the whole freight chain: container ships, port operators, and air couriers. Fixed-tier weights keep the giant parcel names from swallowing the portfolio, with a 70/30 tilt toward sea over sky.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the U.S. Global SEA Index.
Why people hold it
- Owns freight end to end: marine shipping, port and harbor operators, and air freight and courier names, global and including emerging markets.usglobaletfs.com
- Weights are assigned in fixed tiers (5%, 4% and 2% slots for sea names, 3% for air) rather than by market cap, so one mega-cap courier cannot dominate the book.usglobaletfs.com
- Reconstitutes and rebalances quarterly, so the roughly 30-stock lineup refreshes with the freight cycle instead of drifting for years.usglobaletfs.com
- Trading since 2022 and an unusual pairing of ocean and air cargo in a single US-listed fund; it sits in the upper half of its global thematic peer group.usglobaletfs.com
Worth knowing
- At 0.60% a year, it runs a touch above the 0.56% median for global thematic funds.
- A small fund that trades lightly, so spreads can be wider than in large sector ETFs.
- The index was built by U.S. Global Indices, a subsidiary of the adviser, with Indxx as calculation agent, and about 30 cyclical freight names make for a concentrated ride.usglobaletfs.com
SEA Holdings
- Stocks
- 31
- 46%
- Cash & Other
Sectors
- Industrials76.0%
- Energy24.0%
Geography
- China16.24%
- Bermuda16.07%
- United States14.85%
- Greece9.66%
- Hong Kong9.06%
- Singapore8.04%
- Monaco5.01%
- Cyprus4.29%
- 16.78%
Developed 40% · Emerging 60%
SEA 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 | SEA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +40.9% |
| 1 month | −1.1% |
| 3 months | +16.9% |
| 1 year | +46.3% |
| 3 years | +22.0% |
| 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 | SEA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +40.9% | |
| 2025 | +16.7% | |
| 2024 | +2.2% | |
| 2023 | +19.2% | |
| 2022 | −17.4% |
SEA in the news
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SEA Dividends
- 4.80%
- $0.96
- $0.96 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.96 |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $2.40 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $1.48 |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Dec 28, 2022 | $2.59 |
SEA Risk
- 18.8%
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.
- 0.91
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.
- −39.5%
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.
- 0.52
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SEA Cost
- The middle half of Transportation funds
- Median 0.48%
4 of the 8 Transportation funds charge less.