ETFdb Realtime Rating & Analyst Report for USL
USL is a passive Commodity Pool that seeks to replicate the Light, sweet crude oil delivered to Cushing, Oklahoma. The investment objective of USL is to have the changes in percentage terms of the units' net asset value reflect the changes in percentage terms of the price of light, sweet crude oil, as measured by the changes in the average of the prices of 12 futures contracts on crude oil traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange, consisting of the near month contract to expire and the contracts for the following eleven months, for a total of 12 consecutive months' contracts, except when the near month contract is within two weeks of expiration, in which case it will be measured by the futures contracts that are the next month contract to expire and the contracts for the following eleven consecutive months, less USL's expenses.
| ETFdb Category | Expense Ratio | Inception Date | Issuer | Structure | YTD Return * |
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| Oil & Gas | 0.60% | 2007-12-06 | US Commodity Funds | Commodity Pool | -7.98% |
* As of 05-24-2012
USL Realtime Rating: By Metric
| Metric | Metric Realtime Rating | A+ Metric Rated ETF |
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| Liquidity | B+ | UNG |
| Expenses | A- | USO |
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The first adjacent table gives investors an individual Realtime Rating for USL on several different metrics, including liquidity, expenses, performance, volatility, dividend, and concentration of holdings. The "A+ Metric Rated ETF" field, available to ETFdb Pro members, shows the ETF in the Oil & Gas ETFdb Category with the highest Metric Realtime Rating for each individual field.
USL Realtime Rating: Overall
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The second table shows the overall Realtime Rating for USL, as well as the A+ Overall Rated ETF in USL's Category. To view information on how the ETFdb Realtime Ratings work, click here.
ETFdb Analyst Report for USL
This fund offers exposure to one of the world's most important commodities, oil, and potentially has appeal as an inflation hedge. Unlike many commodity products USL diversifies across multiple maturities, potentially eliminating the adverse impact of contango.
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