abrdn Physical Gold Shares ETF
$40.84−0.71 (−1.72%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.17%
- Fund size
- $7.4B
- 1Y return
- +16.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
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- Volume · 30D
- 2.5M sh
- NAV per share
- $41.16
- 52W range
The ETF.net SGOL Grade
Score 65 of 100 sits in the B 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 59Category 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 49Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 40Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 62Category rank
Our read on SGOL
BA 2009-vintage trust that owns actual gold bars and does exactly one job: track bullion's price after a 0.17% fee. Middle of the pack on cost, front of the pack on doing what the prospectus says.
The Trust seeks to track the price of physical gold bullion, after deducting its expenses.
Why people hold it
- Plain plumbing: a grantor trust holding physical bullion, with one job written into its own documents, to track the price of gold after deducting expenses.
- Tracks the metal about as closely as the wrapper allows, one of the cleanest mandate implementations among physical gold funds.
- Trading since 2009, through several full gold cycles, and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that changes hands actively.
Worth knowing
- Cost sits at the category median: 0.17% a year, while IAUM (0.09%) and GLDM (0.10%) charge less to hold the same metal.
- Bullion throws off no income. This is a price-of-gold holding, not a cash-flow one, and the fee comes out of trust assets.
- One metal, no diversification. The shares go where gold goes, including the long flat stretches and sharp drawdowns.
SGOL Holdings
- Other
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- 100%
- Physical Gold
SGOL Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
SGOL$11,626
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 | SGOL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.1% |
| 1 month | −5.5% |
| 3 months | +4.2% |
| 1 year | +16.3% |
| 3 years | +31.1% |
| 5 years | +19.6% |
| 10 years | +12.3% |
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 | SGOL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.1% | |
| 2025 | +64.0% | |
| 2024 | +26.9% | |
| 2023 | +13.0% | |
| 2022 | −0.5% | |
| 2021 | −3.9% | |
| 2020 | +25.0% |
SGOL in the news
SGOL Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
SGOL Risk
- 18.6%
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.
- 1.34
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.
- −26.3%
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.
- 0.40
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SGOL Cost
0.17%
SGOL0.17%
- The middle half of Physical Gold funds
- Median 0.17%
3 of the 10 Physical Gold funds charge less.