US Vegan Climate ETF
$79.32−0.41 (−0.51%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $184M
- 1Y return
- +33.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.55%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $77.68
- 52W range
The ETF.net VEGN Grade
Score 26 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 6Category 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.DScore 38Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 32Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 53Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 43Category rank
Our read on VEGN
DMost ESG funds sand off the rough edges. VEGN starts from a vegan rulebook: animal-welfare, environmental and climate exclusions applied to a US stock index, replicated passively since its 2019 launch.
The Fund seeks to track the Beyond Investing US Vegan Climate Index before fees and expenses. It uses passive indexing, generally replicating the Index while applying its vegan, animal-welfare, environmental, and climate-related exclusions.
Why people hold it
- One rulebook, plainly stated: vegan, animal-welfare, environmental and climate exclusions, then passive replication of whatever survives the screen.
- Follows a named, published benchmark (the Beyond Investing US Vegan Climate Index), so what's in and out follows written index rules rather than manager discretion.
- Live since 2019, so a screen this specific has a multi-year record in a real US equity portfolio, not a backtest.
Worth knowing
- At 0.60% a year it costs more than double the typical fund in its ESG cohort. Broad screened peers like ESGV and SNPE charge about a tenth of a percent.
- Thinly traded, so limit orders matter and spreads can run wider than in the mega ESG index funds.
- Screening out whole industries pulls the portfolio away from the broad US market, so its results can diverge from it in either direction.
VEGN Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 38%
- MU
Sectors
- Technology63.9%
- Financials13.3%
- Communication8.3%
- Industrials4.5%
- Real Estate3.8%
- Health Care3.8%
- Consumer Discr.1.7%
- Materials0.5%
- Energy0.1%
- Utilities0.1%
- Cons. Staples0.0%
Geography
- United States96.48%
- Singapore1.49%
- Ireland1.35%
- Netherlands0.19%
- United Kingdom0.17%
- Australia0.11%
- Bermuda0.11%
- Switzerland0.06%
- 0.04%
VEGN 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 | VEGN |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +31.5% |
| 1 month | +3.5% |
| 3 months | −2.1% |
| 1 year | +33.8% |
| 3 years | +28.7% |
| 5 years | +15.3% |
| 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 | VEGN |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +31.5% | |
| 2025 | +13.7% | |
| 2024 | +25.4% | |
| 2023 | +38.1% | |
| 2022 | −26.9% | |
| 2021 | +26.0% | |
| 2020 | +27.7% |
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VEGN Dividends
- 0.55%
- $0.44
- $0.06 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 16, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Jun 10, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Sep 9, 2025 | Sep 10, 2025 | $0.01 |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Jun 11, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Mar 12, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Dec 13, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Sep 11, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 12, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Mar 12, 2024 | Mar 14, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Dec 12, 2023 | Dec 14, 2023 | $0.11 |
VEGN Risk
- 20.1%
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.
- 1.00
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.
- −33.4%
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.
- 1.22
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VEGN Cost
- The middle half of US ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.23%
44 of the 48 US ESG & Values Index funds charge less.