Defiance Nasdaq 100 Income Target ETF (QQQT US)
QQQT US$17.54
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Performance
Share price activity
- Last (Price)
- 17.54
- Change
- ▲ 0.06 (0.32)
- Bid / Ask
- 15.55 - 17.59
- Volume
- 3,468
- Turnover
- 48,156
- Open
- 17.50
- Day Range
- 17.50 - 17.57
- VWAP
- 17.51
- Prev Close
- 17.48
- Last Trade
- 28/10 4:00pm
Fund profile
Fund size
$50.9M
OCT 2026
Distributions
Monthly
Since inception
2.4 yrs
JUN 2024
- Legal name
- Defiance Nasdaq 100 Income Target ETF
- Issuer
- Defiance ETFs LLC
- Type
- Exchange-Traded Fund
- Structure
- Open Ended Investment Company
- Management style
- Actively managed
- Morningstar category
- Derivative Income
- Category index
- CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite BXM TR USD
- Benchmark
- N/A
- ETF net assets
- $50.9M
- Units on issue
- 3.0M
- Management fee
- 0.85% p.a.
- Domicile
- United States
- Base currency
- USD
- Inception
- 20 JUN 2024
- Listed
- 21 JUN 2024
Objective and strategy
The investment seeks current income; the secondary investment objective being exposure to the performance of the Nasdaq 100 Index. The fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that primarily seeks to generate current income. It’s strategy involves holding shares of unaffiliated passively managed ETFs that seek to track the performance of the index (“Index ETFs”) and selling daily credit call spreads on the index. The fund is non-diversified.
Asset allocation
US equity 97.16%Non-US equity 2.29%
| Asset class | Net % | Long % | Short % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity | 99.45 | 99.93 | 0.48 |
| Bond | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cash | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.00 |
| Other | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.00 |
Sector exposure
Cyclical 12.18%Sensitive 75.52%Defensive 12.30%
- Basic Materials
- 1.04%
- Consumer Cyclical
- 10.92%
- Financial Services
- 0.22%
- Real Estate
- 0.00%
- Communication Services
- 11.99%
- Energy
- 0.48%
- Industrials
- 5.39%
- Technology
- 57.67%
- Consumer Defensive
- 6.63%
- Healthcare
- 4.54%
- Utilities
- 1.13%
Region exposure
Developed markets 99.36%Emerging markets 0.64%
- North America
- 98.34%
- Latin America
- 0.41%
- United Kingdom
- 0.22%
- Europe Developed
- 0.81%
- Europe Emerging
- 0.00%
- Africa / Middle East
- 0.00%
- Japan
- 0.00%
- Australasia
- 0.00%
- Asia Developed
- 0.00%
- Asia Emerging
- 0.23%
Country exposure
- United States
- 97.23%
- Canada
- 1.10%
- Netherlands
- 0.81%
- Brazil
- 0.41%
- China
- 0.23%
- United Kingdom
- 0.22%
Style box
- Style
- Large Growth
- Average moat
- Wide
Size score
298
Value-growth score
219
Economic moat
Wide 67%Narrow 24%None 9%
Market capitalisation
- Giant
- 54.29%
- Large
- 32.03%
- Mid
- 13.68%
- Small
- 0.00%
- Micro
- 0.00%
Giant 54%Large 32%Mid 14%
- Average market cap
- $777.88B
- Number of holdings
- 5
- Shares held
- 0
Portfolio statistics · 22 OCT 2026
- Price / earnings
- 28.28
- Price / book
- 8.75
- Price / sales
- 6.05
- Price / cash flow
- 22.37
- Dividend yield
- 0.57%
- Assets in top 10
- 99.60%
- Return on equity
- 37.73%
- Net margin
- 26.83%
- Earnings growth (3 yr)
- 20.50%
Top holdings · top 10 = 100.00% of assets
| Holding | % Weight | First bought | Market value | Currency | Units held | Sector | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ | 100.05 | — | 51.5M | USD | 69,670 | — | United States | |
| Ndx 09/30/2026 30339.33 C | -0.62 | — | -318,719 | USD | 17 | — | — | |
| Ndx 09/30/2026 30400.01 C | 0.33 | — | 169,181 | USD | 17 | — | — | |
| First American Government Obligs X FGXXX | 0.10 | — | 51,926 | USD | 51,926 | — | United States | |
| Cash Offset | 0.09 | — | 46,383 | — | 46,383 | — | — | |
| OTHER ASSETS AND LIABILITIES | 0.05 | — | 24,868 | USD | 24,868 | — | — |
Trailing returns · 30 SEP 2026
Fund (NAV) Market price
1M
3.0
3M
1.0
6M
27.2
YTD
19.7
1Y
21.1
| Period | Fund (NAV) % | Market price % | Before fees % | Rank in category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | 2.97 | 2.98 | 3.04 | 18 / 330 |
| 3 months | 0.97 | 0.86 | 1.18 | 59 / 301 |
| 6 months | 27.20 | 27.75 | 27.74 | 10 / 274 |
| Year to date | 19.72 | 19.93 | 20.48 | 9 / 259 |
| 1 year | 21.14 | 20.71 | 22.17 | 15 / 232 |
Returns to 30 SEP 2026, periods of 3 years and longer annualised. Rank is the percentile in the Morningstar category at 30 SEP 2026 (1 = best) over the funds ranked.
Calendar year returns
Total Capital
2025
14.2
| Year | Total % | Capital % | Rank in category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.23 | -0.14 | 39 / 174 |
Risk statistics · 30 SEP 2026
| 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha | 0.95 | — | — | — |
| Beta | 1.41 | — | — | — |
| R-squared | 81.90 | — | — | — |
| Standard deviation | 20.50 | — | — | — |
| Sharpe ratio | 0.85 | — | — | — |
| Sortino ratio | 2.00 | — | — | — |
| Tracking error | 10.24 | — | — | — |
| Information ratio | 0.53 | — | — | — |
| Upside capture % | 135.36 | — | — | — |
| Downside capture % | 141.10 | — | — | — |
| Maximum drawdown % | -7.99 | — | — | — |
Measured against S&P 500 (TR) (1970) with USTREAS T-Bill Auction Ave 3 Mon as the risk-free rate, to 30 SEP 2026. Maximum drawdown is on gross returns at the latest quarter end.
Portfolio risk score
Risk score
71.7
Morningstar Portfolio Risk Score at 30 SEP 2026.
- Market impact cost %
- 0.072
- Best quarter
- 26.25% · JUN 2026
- Worst quarter
- -9.40% · APR 2025
Fees and costs
- Management fees and costs
- 0.85% p.a.
- PDS dated
- 23 DEC 2025
Distributions
- Latest distribution
- 0.3035
- Ex Date
- 1 OCT 2026
- Record Date
- 1 OCT 2026
- Pay Date
- 2 OCT 2026
- NAV at ex date
- 17.97
- Paid this year
- 1.7796
Distributions by year
2024
2.4
2023
1.7
| Year | Per unit ($) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.4218 |
| 2023 | 1.6520 |
Distribution history
| Ex Date | Per unit ($) |
|---|---|
| 1 OCT 2026 | 0.3035 |
| 1 SEP 2026 | 0.3001 |
| 3 AUG 2026 | 0.2909 |
| 1 JUL 2026 | 0.3115 |
| 1 JUN 2026 | 0.0035 |
| 1 APR 2026 | 0.2555 |
| 2 MAR 2026 | 0.0189 |
| 2 FEB 2026 | 0.2957 |
| 31 DEC 2025 | 0.2993 |
| 1 DEC 2025 | 0.3027 |
| 3 NOV 2025 | 0.3143 |
| 1 OCT 2025 | 0.3104 |
Sustainability rating · 31 AUG 2026
High
ESG risk score
17.24
Category average 20.47
- Rank in category
- 9th percentile of 2,058 funds
- Environmental risk
- 4.98
- Social risk
- 7.79
- Governance risk
- 4.31
- Portfolio covered
- 99.4%
ESG risk of holdings
- Negligible
- 0.87%
- Low
- 79.19%
- Medium
- 18.02%
- High
- 0.54%
- Severe
- 1.38%
8.83% of assets are in companies with high or severe controversies.
Carbon · 31 AUG 2026
Carbon risk score
3.59
Category average 8.12
- Carbon risk
- Low Risk
- Rank in category
- 11th percentile of 331 funds
- Fossil fuel involvement
- 2.11%
- Category average
- 8.47%
- Low Carbon Designation
- Yes
- Portfolio covered
- 98.0%
Fund managers
- Jay Pestrichelli
- Scott Palvak
- Matt Brandt
Tenure
- Number of managers
- 3
- Average tenure
- 1.3 years
- Longest tenure
- 2.3 years
- Longest serving
- Jay Pestrichelli · since 20 JUN 2024
- Most recent appointment
- Scott Palvak, Matt Brandt · since 23 DEC 2025
- Managed since
- 20 JUN 2024
- Other funds managed
- 127
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