This ETF offers exposure to companies engaged in some way in social media, including companies that provide social networking, file sharing, and other web-based media applications. As such, SOCL delivers targeted access to a relatively new—and potentially volatile—corner of the global technology industry. Given the concentration in a few names and potentially big swings in prices, SOCL probably shouldn’t receive a huge allocation in any long-term buy-and-hold portfolio. But this EF can certainly be useful as a “satellite” position for investors who believe that social media companies will be successful in the future, and can be a way of establishing positions to companies not included in more popular, broad-based equity ETFs.
It should be noted that SOCL maintains a global focus, meaning that social media companies in both developed and emerging markets outside the U.S. are included in the underlying portfolio. It should also be noted that SOCL may include companies that maintain significant operations outside of the social media arena (GOOG is a good example of that situation). The inclusion of these companies may diminish the correlation between SOCL’s price and the success of social media companies. Finally, it is important to know that many social media companies are non-public, meaning that this ETF won’t necessarily include all components of this industry.
SOCL is very targeted in nature, but can be useful for achieving certain objectives. Those seeking more broad-based technology exposure have a number of options in the Technologies Equities ETFdb Category, including XLK.
| Segment | Equity: Global Digital Economy |
| Category | Sector |
| Focus | Theme |
| Niche | Digital Economy |
| Strategy | Vanilla |
| Weighting Scheme | Tiered |
This section compares how balanced and deep this ETF is relative to its peers.
| SOCL | ETF Database Category Average | FactSet Segment Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Holdings | 48 | 387 | 39 |
| % of Assets in Top 10 | 68.51% | 44.98% | 57.62% |
| % of Assets in Top 15 | 84.89% | 52.87% | 71.21% |
| % of Assets in Top 50 | 100.03% | 77.47% | 90.85% |
| SOCL | ETF Database Category Average | FactSet Segment Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Large (>12.9B) | 75.85% | 87.10% | 42.75% |
| Mid (>2.7B) | 16.46% | 4.59% | 23.67% |
| Small (>600M) | 7.14% | 0.59% | 17.49% |
| Micro (<600M) | 0.41% | 0.10% | 4.41% |
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.
| SOCL | ETF Database Category Average | FactSet Segment Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend | $ 0.10 | $ 0.35 | $ 0.35 |
| Dividend Date | 2024-06-27 | N/A | N/A |
| Annual Dividend Rate | $ 0.10 | $ 1.04 | $ 0.42 |
| Annual Dividend Yield | 0.24% | 1.24% | 1.78% |
View charts featuring SOCL price and volume data.
View charts featuring ETF fund flow data.
5 Day Net Flows: 14.38 K 1 Month Net Flows: -1.26 M 3 Month Net Flows: -9.09 M 6 Month Net Flows: -22.93 M 1 Year Net Flows: -57.64 M 3 Year Net Flows: -131.17 M 5 Year Net Flows: 26.63 M 10 Year Net Flows: -4.2 MView charts that break down the influence that fund flows and price had on overall assets.
5 Day Net AUM Change: 697.99 KThe adjacent table gives investors an individual Realtime Rating for SOCL 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.
| SOCL |
ETF Database
Category Average |
Factset Segment
Average |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Month Return | -0.27% | 3.38% | 2.90% |
| 3 Month Return | 4.68% | 6.17% | 12.14% |
| YTD Return | 3.02% | 4.50% | 7.38% |
| 1 Year Return | 9.59% | 26.96% | 59.15% |
| 3 Year Return | -3.13% | 10.64% | 3.68% |
| 5 Year Return | 3.61% | 10.20% | 0.68% |
The following charts reflect the geographic spread of SOCL's underlying holdings.
| Region | Percentage |
|---|---|
| North, Central and South America | 66.51% |
| Asia Pacific | 32.28% |
| Europe | 1.1% |
| Other | 0.14% |
| Country | Percentage |
|---|---|
| United States | 44.65% |
| China | 31.08% |
| South Korea | 11.89% |
| Luxembourg | 6.05% |
| Japan | 3.95% |
| Singapore | 0.62% |
| United Kingdom | 0.59% |
| Germany | 0.51% |
| Israel | 0.4% |
| United Arab Emirates | 0.15% |
| Other | 0.14% |
The following charts reflect the allocation of SOCL's underlying holdings.
| Sector | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Technology Services | 94.66% |
| Commercial Services | 4.39% |
| Consumer Services | 0.75% |
| CASH | 0.14% |
| Retail Trade | 0.09% |
| Market Cap | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Large | 75.85% |
| Mid | 16.46% |
| Small | 7.14% |
| Micro | 0.41% |
| Region | Percentage |
|---|
| Asset | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Share/Common/Ordinary | 81.88% |
| American Depositary Receipt | 16.71% |
| Depositary Receipts/Certificates | 1.3% |
| CASH | 0.14% |
| Sector | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Technology Services | 94.66% |
| Commercial Services | 4.39% |
| Consumer Services | 0.75% |
| CASH | 0.14% |
| Retail Trade | 0.09% |
This section shows how the volatility of this ETF compares to the peer group ETF Database Category.
| 5 Day Volatility | 206.54% |
| 20 Day Volatility | 19.55% |
| 50 Day Volatility | 20.69% |
| 200 Day Volatility | 24.55% |
| Beta | 0.94 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.96% |
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