Global X - Social Media ETF
$43.75−1.06 (−2.36%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.65%
- Fund size
- $92M
- 1Y return
- −27.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.48%
- Holdings
- 48
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $44.86
- 52W range
The ETF.net SOCL Grade
Score 40 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.BScore 55Category 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.FScore 18Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 29Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 33Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 72Category rank
Our read on SOCL
CSocial media as one ticker: about 50 platform companies worldwide, tracked to a Solactive index. Running since 2011, which makes it a veteran of the thematic shelf.
The fund seeks investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the Solactive Social Media Total Return Index, before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- Pure play, not a sprinkle. The index targets social and communications platforms directly, roughly 50 of them, rather than burying a few inside a broad tech basket.assets.globalxetfs.com
- Global mandate, so the basket reaches past US names to platforms listed abroad, where much of the world's scrolling actually happens.globalxetfs.com
- The 0.65% fee sits right at the median for its innovation-theme peer group. Narrow focus, no novelty surcharge.
- Live since 2011 and rules-based: the fund follows the Solactive Social Media index through platform cycles instead of a manager's hunch about the next feed.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded and modest in size, so spreads can widen. Limit orders matter more here than in a mega-cap fund.
- About 50 stocks in one theme means ad-market swings and single-company headlines land harder than they would in a broad index.
- Broader innovation peers charge less for wider nets: KOMP at 0.20% and XT at 0.46%. The tight focus is the thing you're paying up for.
SOCL Holdings
- Stocks
- 48
- 69%
- META
Sectors
- Communication95.5%
- Technology3.4%
- Cons. Staples0.6%
- Industrials0.4%
- Consumer Discr.0.1%
Geography
- United States44.04%
- China29.65%
- South Korea13.22%
- Sweden5.21%
- Japan5.09%
- Germany1.17%
- Singapore1.02%
- United Kingdom0.43%
- 0.16%
Developed 23% · Emerging 77%
SOCL 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 | SOCL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −18.7% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | +2.5% |
| 1 year | −27.0% |
| 3 years | +7.7% |
| 5 years | −6.2% |
| 10 years | +6.4% |
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 | SOCL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −18.7% | |
| 2025 | +31.0% | |
| 2024 | +5.1% | |
| 2023 | +31.1% | |
| 2022 | −42.2% | |
| 2021 | −12.8% | |
| 2020 | +78.3% |
SOCL in the news
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SOCL Dividends
- 0.48%
- $0.22
- $0.09 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 8, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 10, 2023 | $0.19 |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Jul 8, 2022 | $0.12 |
| Dec 28, 2017 | Jan 9, 2018 | $0.49 |
| Dec 28, 2016 | Jan 6, 2017 | $0.04 |
| Dec 29, 2015 | Jan 8, 2016 | $0.0013 |
| Dec 29, 2014 | Jan 8, 2015 | $0.01 |
| Dec 27, 2013 | Jan 7, 2014 | $0.0003 |
SOCL Risk
- 21.1%
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.
- 0.16
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.
- −62.9%
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.
- 1.21
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SOCL Cost
- The middle half of Disruptive Innovation funds
- Median 0.65%
11 of the 31 Disruptive Innovation funds charge less.