The ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF) is an actively-managed fund from the team at ARK Invest that tries to pick the companies best positioned to profit from advancements in energy, automation, manufacturing, materials and transportation. The advisory firm, led by Catherine Wood, has an impressive track record doing what most stock pickers fail to do: beating the market. This fund aims to pick the winners in financial technology such as blockchain, transaction innovation, and customer platforms. The fund owns about 40 stocks. Its top holding is mobile payment company Square Inc., real estate listings giant Zillow, and MercadoLibre, an online trading site for Latin American markets. ARKF also owns sizable slugs of tech and social media giants like Apple and Pinterest.
ARKF launched in late 2019, years after some of its closer competitors, so it lags in size but has still raised more than $100 million in assets. ARKF’s management fee of 75 basis points might seem expensive in the ultra-low-cost world of passive ETFs, but it’s cheap for active management. It might look like an especially good bargain compared with passive competitors such as the ETFMG Prime Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY) which charges the same fee as ARKF, or the Global X FinTech ETF (FINX) which costs 68 basis points. Any actively-managed product is ultimately a bet on the portfolio managers who pick the stocks. ARK’s products are geared toward investors who have the fortitude and faith to ride out short-term blips in the hopes of earning long-term alpha.
| Segment | Equity: Global FinTech |
| Category | Sector |
| Focus | Theme |
| Niche | FinTech |
| Strategy | Active |
| Weighting Scheme | Proprietary |
This section compares how balanced and deep this ETF is relative to its peers.
| ARKF | ETF Database Category Average | FactSet Segment Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Holdings | 37 | 387 | 40 |
| % of Assets in Top 10 | 57.10% | 44.74% | 52.25% |
| % of Assets in Top 15 | 71.18% | 52.64% | 66.94% |
| % of Assets in Top 50 | 100.00% | 77.22% | 99.99% |
| ARKF | ETF Database Category Average | FactSet Segment Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Large (>12.9B) | 78.69% | 86.89% | 67.60% |
| Mid (>2.7B) | 11.79% | 4.80% | 18.25% |
| Small (>600M) | 2.32% | 0.62% | 9.93% |
| Micro (<600M) | 0.00% | 0.09% | 0.31% |
This section compares the P/E ratio of this ETF to its peers.
This section compares the dividend yield of this ETF to its peers.
| ARKF | ETF Database Category Average | FactSet Segment Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend | $ 0.19 | $ 0.41 | $ 0.09 |
| Dividend Date | 2020-12-29 | N/A | N/A |
| Annual Dividend Rate | N/A | $ 1.03 | $ 0.13 |
| Annual Dividend Yield | N/A | 1.26% | 0.39% |
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View charts featuring ETF fund flow data.
5 Day Net Flows: -11.39 M 1 Month Net Flows: -72.4 M 3 Month Net Flows: -43.02 M 6 Month Net Flows: -123.53 M 1 Year Net Flows: -405.5 M 3 Year Net Flows: -520.1 M 5 Year Net Flows: 2.01 B 10 Year Net Flows: 2.08 BView charts that break down the influence that fund flows and price had on overall assets.
5 Day Net AUM Change: 3.65 MThe adjacent table gives investors an individual Realtime Rating for ARKF on several different metrics, including liquidity, expenses, performance, volatility, dividend, concentration of holdings in addition to an overall rating. The "A+ Metric Rated ETF" field, available to ETF Database Pro members, shows the ETF in the Large Cap Growth Equities with the highest Metric Realtime Rating for each individual field. To view all of this data, sign up for a free 14-day trial for ETF Database Pro. To view information on how the ETF Database Realtime Ratings work, click here.
This section compares the cost efficiency of this ETF to its peers.
| Max ST Capital Gains Rate | 39.60% |
| Max LT Capital Gains Rate | 20.00% |
| Tax On Distributions | Qualified dividends |
| Distributes K1 | No |
This section shows how this ETF has performed relative to its peers. Returns over 1 year are annualized.
| ARKF |
ETF Database
Category Average |
Factset Segment
Average |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Month Return | -3.45% | -1.90% | -1.51% |
| 3 Month Return | 24.89% | 3.48% | 8.21% |
| YTD Return | 4.97% | 1.36% | 1.65% |
| 1 Year Return | 54.69% | 26.85% | 22.39% |
| 3 Year Return | 3.56% | 7.60% | 0.71% |
| 5 Year Return | 8.87% | 9.84% | 1.77% |
The following charts reflect the geographic spread of ARKF's underlying holdings.
| Region | Percentage |
|---|---|
| North, Central and South America | 87.88% |
| Other | 6.13% |
| Europe | 4.78% |
| Asia Pacific | 1.21% |
| Country | Percentage |
|---|---|
| United States | 65.77% |
| Canada | 9.15% |
| Other | 7.24% |
| Netherlands | 3.1% |
| Uruguay | 2.92% |
| Israel | 2.27% |
| Singapore | 1.84% |
| South Africa | 1.68% |
| Luxembourg | 1.58% |
| Cayman Islands | 1.25% |
| Japan | 1.21% |
| Kazakhstan | 1.01% |
| Hong Kong | 0.98% |
The following charts reflect the allocation of ARKF's underlying holdings.
| Sector | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Technology Services | 50.05% |
| Finance | 25.22% |
| Retail Trade | 8.0% |
| Other | 5.99% |
| Consumer Services | 3.73% |
| Consumer Durables | 3.15% |
| Commercial Services | 1.45% |
| Electronic Technology | 1.16% |
| Miscellaneous | 1.11% |
| CASH | 0.14% |
| Market Cap | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Large | 78.69% |
| Mid | 11.79% |
| Small | 2.32% |
| Micro | 0.0% |
| Region | Percentage |
|---|
| Asset | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Share/Common/Ordinary | 88.93% |
| Other | 5.99% |
| American Depositary Receipt | 3.83% |
| Exchange Traded Fund (ETF-ETF) | 1.11% |
| CASH | 0.14% |
| Sector | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Technology Services | 50.05% |
| Finance | 25.22% |
| Retail Trade | 8.0% |
| Other | 5.99% |
| Consumer Services | 3.73% |
| Consumer Durables | 3.15% |
| Commercial Services | 1.45% |
| Electronic Technology | 1.16% |
| Miscellaneous | 1.11% |
| CASH | 0.14% |
This section shows how the volatility of this ETF compares to the peer group ETF Database Category.
| 5 Day Volatility | 58.98% |
| 20 Day Volatility | 38.03% |
| 50 Day Volatility | 35.92% |
| 200 Day Volatility | 30.79% |
| Beta | 1.5 |
| Standard Deviation | 4.32% |
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