Roundhill Investments - Uranium ETF
$28.48−0.42 (−1.46%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $5M
- 1Y return
- −4.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Holdings
- 7
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.90
- 52W range
The ETF.net UX Grade
Score 30 of 100 sits in the D 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 20Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.FScore 15Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 48Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 48Category rank
Our read on UX
DMost uranium ETFs buy the miners. UX goes after the rock: it targets changes in the price of physical uranium (U3O8) through swaps linked to uranium trusts, inside a standard 1940 Act ETF wrapper.
The fund seeks exposure to changes in the price of physical uranium, including through swap agreements linked to uranium-related trusts and other reference assets.
Why people hold it
- The commodity, not the companies. Exposure tracks the U3O8 price rather than mine schedules, cost overruns and share issuance at uranium producers.roundhillinvestments.com
- Fills a real gap in the shelf: URA, URNM and NLR are equity baskets of miners and nuclear names, while UX points at the underlying fuel price.roundhillinvestments.com
- Fee sits at 0.75%, right on the uranium and nuclear category's median, for a job most of that category doesn't do.
- Registered under the 1940 Act, so it trades and reports like an ordinary ETF rather than a commodity partnership.roundhillinvestments.com
Worth knowing
- Swaps do the work. Exposure comes through swap agreements linked to uranium-related trusts and reference assets, not owned yellowcake, which adds counterparty and financing considerations.roundhillinvestments.com
- It launched in 2025. Assets and on-screen depth are modest next to the category's long-running funds, so spreads can run wider than the household names.
- A commodity pays no dividends. There's no miner earnings leverage here, and any distributions arrive at most once or twice a year.
UX Holdings
- Stocks
- 7
- 180%
- 912797UJ4
Sectors
UX 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 | UX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −3.2% |
| 1 month | −4.8% |
| 3 months | +2.6% |
| 1 year | −4.2% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | UX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −3.2% | |
| 2025 | +15.8% |
UX in the news
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UX Dividends
- $0.44 per share
- Irregular
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.44 |
UX Risk
- 32.3%
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.
- 0.34
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.
- −26.1%
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.
- 0.80
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
UX Cost
- The middle half of Physical Commodities funds
- Median 0.60%
7 of the 9 Physical Commodities funds charge less.