ProShares - Metaverse ETF
$74.33−1.57 (−2.07%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.58%
- Fund size
- $5M
- 1Y return
- +21.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.12%
- Holdings
- 41
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $73.37
- 52W range
The ETF.net VERS Grade
Score 49 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.BScore 56Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 72Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 32Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 44Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 64Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 41Category rank
Our read on VERS
CLaunched in March 2022 at peak metaverse buzz, VERS holds roughly 40 global companies building the hardware, platforms and games behind virtual worlds. One index, one theme, no hedging.
The fund seeks pre-expense returns that track the Solactive Metaverse Theme Index. It normally invests at least 80% of assets in index components or instruments with similar economic characteristics and generally uses replication or representative sampling.
Why people hold it
- One ticket to the whole stack: device makers, data processors, social platforms and gaming sit in the same basket of about 40 names, not a single metaverse pure play.proshares.com
- Rules-based, not vibes-based: at least 80% of assets go into components of the Solactive Metaverse Theme Index, held via replication or sampling.proshares.com
- The 0.58% fee lands around the middle of the thematic ETF pack. No exotic-theme surcharge for the niche.
- Global mandate, so the index can reach chipmakers and platform owners listed outside the US. Distributions come quarterly.proshares.com
Worth knowing
- A small fund that trades lightly, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than on mainstream tech ETFs and larger orders can move the price.
- About 40 stocks riding one narrative: swings tend to be sharper than a broad market fund's, in both directions.
- Peers cover overlapping tech ground for less, including TECB at 0.30% and LRND at 0.14%.
VERS Holdings
- Stocks
- 41
- 44%
- QRVO
Sectors
- Technology77.7%
- Communication17.7%
- Consumer Discr.4.2%
- Real Estate0.5%
Geography
- United States92.22%
- Taiwan2.96%
- United Kingdom1.82%
- Finland1.75%
- China1.25%
VERS 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 | VERS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +23.3% |
| 1 month | +7.1% |
| 3 months | −2.5% |
| 1 year | +21.5% |
| 3 years | +30.7% |
| 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 | VERS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +23.3% | |
| 2025 | +26.2% | |
| 2024 | +16.9% | |
| 2023 | +51.2% | |
| 2022 | −34.5% |
VERS in the news
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VERS Dividends
- 0.12%
- $0.09
- $0.0092 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.0092 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.0066 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jul 1, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Apr 1, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.04 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | $0.15 |
| Jun 21, 2023 | Jun 28, 2023 | $0.05 |
VERS Risk
- 27.8%
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.
- 0.74
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.
- −42.1%
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.
- 1.79
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VERS Cost
- The middle half of Metaverse & Connectivity funds
- Median 0.59%
2 of the 7 Metaverse & Connectivity funds charge less.