abrdn Physical Silver Shares ETF
$61.36−2.52 (−3.94%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $4.6B
- 1Y return
- +52.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
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- Volume · 30D
- 1.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $62.56
- 52W range
The ETF.net SIVR Grade
Score 76 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 92Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 95Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 33Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 58Category 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.AScore 73Category rank
Our read on SIVR
ASilver bullion in a vault, wrapped in a ticker. SIVR has done that one job since 2009 at 0.30% a year, half the going rate for physical metal funds, and fee is most of the tracking gap here.
The Trust seeks to track the price of physical silver, after deducting its expenses.
Why people hold it
- 0.30% a year, versus a 0.60% median across physical metal funds and 0.50% at the biggest silver trust, SLV. When the mandate is just holding metal, cost is the differentiator.
- The mandate is one sentence: track the price of physical silver after expenses. Real metal, not futures contracts, swaps, or miner stocks standing in for the metal.
- A multi-billion-dollar trust that trades actively, so entering and exiting is usually a routine order rather than a hunt for the other side.
- Running since 2009 and rated among the strongest implementations in the physical commodity group, on both cost and how closely it delivers its stated mandate.
Worth knowing
- One metal, one price. Silver moves hard in both directions and there is no diversification inside the trust to soften it.
- Bullion generates no cash flow, so this is a price-only holding rather than an income one.
- It is a commodity trust, not a registered 1940 Act fund, so the legal protections and tax treatment differ from a standard stock or bond ETF.
SIVR Holdings
- Other
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- 100%
- Physical Silver
SIVR Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
SIVR$15,199
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 | SIVR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −5.6% |
| 1 month | −3.1% |
| 3 months | +3.1% |
| 1 year | +52.0% |
| 3 years | +41.5% |
| 5 years | +23.9% |
| 10 years | +12.6% |
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 | SIVR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −5.6% | |
| 2025 | +145.3% | |
| 2024 | +21.1% | |
| 2023 | −0.9% | |
| 2022 | +2.6% | |
| 2021 | −12.3% | |
| 2020 | +47.5% |
SIVR in the news
SIVR Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
SIVR Risk
- 34.9%
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.
- 1.00
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.
- −52.3%
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.
- 1.26
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SIVR Cost
0.30%
SIVR0.30%
- The middle half of Physical Commodities funds
- Median 0.60%
No Physical Commodities fund charges less.