Strive Small-Cap ETF
$36.78−0.37 (−1.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.18%
- Fund size
- $81M
- 1Y return
- +12.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.18%
- Holdings
- 591
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $36.97
- 52W range
The ETF.net STXK Grade
Score 51 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.DScore 36Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 79Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 30Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 44Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 82Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 38Category rank
Our read on STXK
CStrive's swing at small caps: one ticker for roughly 600 smaller U.S. companies, tracking Bloomberg's US 2000 index for 0.18% a year, a hair under its peer group's median fee.
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the Bloomberg US 2000 Index, representing U.S. small- and mid-capitalization equities.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.18% a year, under the 0.20% median for its peer group and well below the 0.30% on Janus Henderson's small/mid growth fund, JSMD.
- Roughly 600 small- and mid-cap U.S. stocks in one line item, so the outcome rides on the smaller end of the market rather than a handful of names.
- Simple, legible job: track the Bloomberg US 2000 and stay in U.S. equities. On mandate fidelity it lands in the upper half of its peer group.
- Standard 1940 Act fund structure with quarterly distributions. No leverage, no derivatives wrapper, no options overlay to decode.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded, so bid/ask spreads can run wider than on the household-name small-cap funds.
- Small and mid caps move harder in both directions than large-cap benchmarks. Bumpier ride is the price of admission here.
- Launched in 2022 and still modest in size, so the track record is short next to the decades-old small-cap index funds.
STXK Holdings
- Stocks
- 591
- 4%
- FORM
Sectors
- Technology16.9%
- Financials16.3%
- Industrials15.6%
- Consumer Discr.12.0%
- Health Care11.7%
- Energy6.8%
- Real Estate6.2%
- Materials5.1%
- Utilities3.6%
- Cons. Staples3.2%
- Communication2.4%
Geography
- United States95.73%
- Bermuda1.85%
- Switzerland0.72%
- United Kingdom0.33%
- Netherlands0.22%
- Canada0.20%
- Puerto Rico0.19%
- Monaco0.17%
- 0.58%
STXK 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 | STXK |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.2% |
| 1 month | −4.5% |
| 3 months | −1.3% |
| 1 year | +12.2% |
| 3 years | +15.4% |
| 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 | STXK |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.2% | |
| 2025 | +7.8% | |
| 2024 | +9.5% | |
| 2023 | +20.2% | |
| 2022 | −5.9% |
STXK in the news
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STXK Dividends
- 1.18%
- $0.44
- $0.12 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.002 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Jun 16, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.08 |
STXK Risk
- 18.3%
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.
- 0.56
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.
- −27.1%
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.
- 1.11
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
STXK Cost
- The middle half of US Stocks funds
- Median 0.10%
5 of the 8 US Stocks funds charge less.