Pacer American Energy Infrastructure ETF
$45.61+0.38 (+0.83%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $117M
- 1Y return
- +20.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.24%
- Holdings
- 37
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.69
- 52W range
The ETF.net USAI 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.FScore 23Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 89Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 70Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 33Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 56Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 49Category rank
Our read on USAI
CSkip the drillers. USAI owns the toll-booth end of energy: the pipelines, storage and processing assets that move hydrocarbons across the US and Canada, roughly 40 names, with cash paid out monthly.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the American Energy Infrastructure Index through a passive indexing strategy.
Why people hold it
- Infrastructure, not exploration. The index targets the midstream assets that get paid to move and store energy, a different business than pumping it out of the ground.
- The mandate reaches into Canada as well as the US, so it picks up the big Canadian pipeline operators that US-only energy funds leave out.paceretfs.com
- Pays monthly, and it is a 1940 Act registered fund rather than a partnership, which sidesteps the K-1 paperwork attached to partnership-structured MLP vehicles.
- Rules-based and passive: it tracks the American Energy Infrastructure Index rather than leaving pipeline picks to a manager's judgment.
Worth knowing
- At 0.75% a year, it costs well above the 0.45% typical for energy funds, and broad options like XLE and FENY run 0.08%. Narrow exposure carries a real price tag here.
- Thinly traded. Volume is light next to the big energy ETFs, so bid-ask spreads can widen, especially on large or fast orders.
- About 40 holdings in one slice of one sector. Pipeline economics, regulation and commodity swings drive the whole basket together.
USAI Holdings
- Stocks
- 37
- 62%
- LNG
Sectors
- Energy100.0%
Geography
- United States79.84%
- Canada20.16%
USAI 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 | USAI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +21.9% |
| 1 month | −3.7% |
| 3 months | +1.2% |
| 1 year | +20.0% |
| 3 years | +23.3% |
| 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 | USAI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +21.9% | |
| 2025 | +0.7% | |
| 2024 | +44.0% | |
| 2023 | +14.2% | |
| 2022 | +19.8% | |
| 2021 | +37.1% | |
| 2020 | −15.0% |
USAI in the news
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USAI Dividends
- 4.24%
- $1.92
- $0.16 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.16 |
| May 21, 2026 | May 26, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Apr 23, 2026 | Apr 27, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jan 22, 2026 | Jan 26, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.16 |
USAI Risk
- 15.3%
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.
- 1.27
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.
- −20.7%
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.
- 0.28
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
USAI Cost
- The middle half of Energy (Broad) funds
- Median 0.46%
17 of the 24 Energy (Broad) funds charge less.