Strive Total Return Bond ETF
$19.23−0.17 (−0.85%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $117M
- 1Y return
- −0.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.62%
- Holdings
- 241
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $19.42
- 52W range
The ETF.net STXT Grade
Score 42 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.CScore 41Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 60Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 28Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 22Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 59Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 34Category rank
Our read on STXT
CA go-anywhere active bond fund parked in an aisle full of three-basis-point index trackers. Strive's managers roam mortgages, structured credit, corporates and government debt in pursuit of maximum total return, and pay out monthly.
The Fund seeks maximum total return. It is actively managed and normally puts at least 80% of net assets plus investment borrowings into bonds across maturities, including mortgage-related, structured-credit, corporate, government, and bond-linked derivative exposures.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed, not index-bound: normally at least 80% of assets in bonds across maturities, with room for mortgage, structured-credit, corporate, government and bond-linked derivative exposure.
- Roughly 240 bonds rather than an index sleeve of thousands, so the managers' rate and credit calls actually show up in the portfolio.
- Distributions arrive monthly, the cadence most income-focused bond buyers plan around.
- The mandate reaches beyond US paper into international issues, giving the team a wider opportunity set than a domestic-only aggregate fund.
Worth knowing
- At 0.49% a year it sits above the category median and many times the 0.03% charged by index heavyweights BND, SPAB and SCHZ. Active management is the thing you are paying for.
- Thinly traded and small beside the aggregate-bond giants, which tends to mean wider spreads and choppier fills than the household names.
- No index to fall back on: results track the team's duration and credit decisions, and the derivatives allowance adds moving parts a plain bond index fund does not have.
STXT Holdings
- Bonds
- 241
- 25%
- Strategy Inc 8% 09/30/2174
Geography
- United States97.43%
- Ireland0.86%
- Switzerland0.55%
- Singapore0.27%
- Luxembourg0.27%
- United Kingdom0.27%
- Canada0.21%
- Barbados0.14%
STXT 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 | STXT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.7% |
| 1 month | −0.4% |
| 3 months | +0.0% |
| 1 year | −0.2% |
| 3 years | +4.3% |
| 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 | STXT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.7% | |
| 2025 | +6.6% | |
| 2024 | +1.8% | |
| 2023 | +4.1% |
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STXT Dividends
- 4.62%
- $0.90
- $0.09 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.07 |
| May 28, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.07 |
STXT Risk
- 5.5%
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.
- −0.09
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.
- −5.3%
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.
- 0.22
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
STXT Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
15 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.