Defiance Space and Connective Tech ETF
$85.97−1.05 (−1.21%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $898M
- 1Y return
- +38.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.44%
- Holdings
- 64
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $86.74
- 52W range
The ETF.net UFOX Grade
Score 84 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 100Category 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.BScore 68Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 74Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 83Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 82Category rank
Our read on UFOX
AA space theme without the space-theme price tag. UFOX tracks a rules-based index of roughly 60 satellite and connectivity companies for 0.30%, a little over half what the typical global thematic fund charges.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the BlueStar® Space and Connective Technologies Index. It uses passive indexing and generally invests in the index constituents.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.30% a year, against a 0.56% median for its global thematic peers. Niche themes usually cost more, not less.
- Fully rules-based. It tracks the BlueStar Space and Connective Technologies Index, so what lands in the portfolio follows a published methodology, not a manager's hunch.defianceetfs.com
- About 60 holdings across a global and US mandate, so the theme is spread over satellite and connectivity businesses rather than three or four pure plays.
- Listed since 2019, mid-sized, moderately traded and paying quarterly. On the whole, one of the stronger profiles in its global thematic group.
Worth knowing
- One theme, roughly 60 stocks. Space and connectivity names tend to move together, so the ride is bumpier than a broad market fund.
- Wide tent. "Space and connective technologies" stretches from satellites to connectivity infrastructure, so check the holdings list to see what you actually own.defianceetfs.com
- Cheap for a theme fund, not cheap outright. Broader global peers such as KLMT (0.10%) and IQSZ (0.19%) sit well below it on fees.
UFOX Holdings
- Stocks
- 64
- 35%
- AAPL
Sectors
- Technology73.5%
- Industrials13.1%
- Communication9.1%
- Real Estate4.3%
Geography
- United States88.71%
- Canada2.46%
- Israel2.05%
- Finland1.49%
- United Kingdom1.46%
- Cayman Islands1.37%
- Sweden1.35%
- China1.11%
UFOX 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 | UFOX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +36.7% |
| 1 month | +5.0% |
| 3 months | −7.4% |
| 1 year | +38.7% |
| 3 years | +42.1% |
| 5 years | +19.8% |
| 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 | UFOX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +36.7% | |
| 2025 | +34.8% | |
| 2024 | +34.1% | |
| 2023 | +21.9% | |
| 2022 | −27.3% | |
| 2021 | +25.7% | |
| 2020 | +29.8% |
UFOX in the news
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UFOX Dividends
- 0.44%
- $0.38
- $0.11 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.12 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 | $0.13 |
UFOX Risk
- 27.7%
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.
- 1.10
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.
- −33.9%
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.
- 1.58
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
UFOX Cost
- The middle half of Space funds
- Median 0.75%
No Space fund charges less.