ETF SERIES SOLUTIONS DEFIANCE QUANTUM ETF (QTUM US)
QTUM US$141.14
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Performance
Share price activity
- Last (Price)
- 141.14
- Change
- ▼ -2.73 (-1.90)
- Bid / Ask
- 136.00 - 141.21
- Volume
- 25,802
- Turnover
- 2,055,418
- Open
- 140.83
- Day Range
- 140.00 - 142.00
- VWAP
- 140.86
- Prev Close
- 143.87
- Last Trade
- 29/10 4:00pm
Fund profile
Fund size
$5.17B
OCT 2026
Distributions
Irregular
Since inception
8.2 yrs
SEP 2018
- Legal name
- Defiance Quantum ETF
- Issuer
- Defiance ETFs LLC
- Type
- Exchange-Traded Fund
- Structure
- Open Ended Investment Company
- Management style
- Index fund
- Morningstar category
- Technology
- Category index
- Morningstar US Tech TR USD
- Benchmark
- S&P 500 (TR) (1970)
- ETF net assets
- $5.17B
- Units on issue
- 37.9M
- Management fee
- 0.40% p.a.
- Domicile
- United States
- Base currency
- USD
- Inception
- 4 SEP 2018
- Listed
- 13 AUG 2024
- Index provider
- Standard and Poors
Objective and strategy
The investment seeks to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the BlueStar Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Index (the "index"). The fund uses a “passive management” (or indexing) approach to track the total return performance, before fees and expenses, of the index. The index consists of a modified equal-weighted portfolio of the stock of companies whose business activities, products, and/or services relate to the development of quantum computing and machine learning technology.
Asset allocation
US equity 62.35%Non-US equity 37.25%
| Asset class | Net % | Long % | Short % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity | 99.60 | 99.60 | 0.00 |
| Bond | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cash | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.00 |
| Other | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.00 |
Sector exposure
Cyclical 2.52%Sensitive 95.90%Defensive 1.58%
- Basic Materials
- 0.00%
- Consumer Cyclical
- 2.52%
- Financial Services
- 0.00%
- Real Estate
- 0.00%
- Communication Services
- 6.82%
- Energy
- 0.00%
- Industrials
- 10.72%
- Technology
- 78.36%
- Consumer Defensive
- 0.00%
- Healthcare
- 1.58%
- Utilities
- 0.00%
Region exposure
Developed markets 96.62%Emerging markets 3.38%
- North America
- 63.79%
- Latin America
- 0.00%
- United Kingdom
- 1.58%
- Europe Developed
- 10.09%
- Europe Emerging
- 0.00%
- Africa / Middle East
- 0.94%
- Japan
- 9.95%
- Australasia
- 0.00%
- Asia Developed
- 10.29%
- Asia Emerging
- 3.38%
Country exposure
- United States
- 62.60%
- Japan
- 9.95%
- Taiwan
- 7.61%
- Netherlands
- 4.76%
- Singapore
- 2.67%
- China
- 2.02%
- Italy
- 1.62%
- United Kingdom
- 1.58%
- India
- 1.36%
- Canada
- 1.18%
- Switzerland
- 1.09%
- France
- 1.01%
Style box
- Style
- Large Growth
- Average moat
- Moderate
Size score
227
Value-growth score
249
Economic moat
Wide 52%Narrow 24%None 24%
Market capitalisation
- Giant
- 25.32%
- Large
- 35.01%
- Mid
- 22.78%
- Small
- 10.03%
- Micro
- 6.87%
Giant 25%Large 35%Mid 23%Small 10%Micro 7%
- Average market cap
- $65.76B
- Number of holdings
- 89
- Shares held
- 85
Portfolio statistics · 22 OCT 2026
- Price / earnings
- 24.72
- Price / book
- 4.93
- Price / sales
- 3.56
- Price / cash flow
- 18.39
- Dividend yield
- 0.96%
- Assets in top 10
- 18.79%
- Return on equity
- 21.17%
- Net margin
- 17.94%
- Earnings growth (3 yr)
- 9.87%
Top holdings · top 10 = 17.82% of assets
| Holding | % Weight | First bought | Market value | Currency | Units held | Sector | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global Unichip Corp 3443 | 2.29 | FEB 2026 | 129.3M | TWD | 511,991 | Technology | Taiwan | |
| Arqit Quantum Inc ARQQ | 2.12 | FEB 2026 | 120.0M | USD | 5.0M | Technology | United Kingdom | |
| Cloudflare Inc NET | 1.83 | FEB 2026 | 103.2M | USD | 297,263 | Technology | United States | |
| Elastic NV ESTC | 1.74 | FEB 2026 | 98.5M | USD | 1.1M | Technology | United States | |
| Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd Class A HQ | 1.72 | JUN 2026 | 96.9M | USD | 6.5M | Technology | Singapore | |
| Palantir Technologies Inc Ordinary Shares - Class A PLTR | 1.66 | FEB 2026 | 93.8M | USD | 501,501 | Technology | United States | |
| Nutanix Inc Class A NTNX | 1.64 | FEB 2026 | 92.6M | USD | 1.3M | Technology | United States | |
| Snowflake Inc Ordinary Shares SNOW | 1.64 | FEB 2026 | 92.4M | USD | 272,194 | Technology | United States | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co HPE | 1.62 | FEB 2026 | 91.7M | USD | 1.4M | Technology | United States | |
| Advanced Micro Devices Inc AMD | 1.56 | FEB 2026 | 88.3M | USD | 144,339 | Technology | United States |
Trailing returns · 30 SEP 2026
Fund (NAV) Market price
1M
2.6
3M
-7.8
6M
42.9
YTD
39.3
1Y
46.2
3Y
48.2
5Y
26.0
| Period | Fund (NAV) % | Market price % | Before fees % | Rank in category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | 2.64 | 2.80 | 2.68 | 64 / 346 |
| 3 months | -7.85 | -8.04 | -7.76 | 73 / 322 |
| 6 months | 42.93 | 41.97 | 43.21 | 38 / 300 |
| Year to date | 39.30 | 39.20 | 39.72 | 30 / 297 |
| 1 year | 46.21 | 46.11 | 46.80 | 23 / 288 |
| 3 years p.a. | 48.17 | 48.11 | 48.77 | 10 / 244 |
| 5 years p.a. | 26.04 | 26.01 | 26.54 | 9 / 222 |
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
2019
48.2
2020
42.0
2021
35.3
2022
-28.6
2023
39.6
2024
50.7
2025
36.4
| Year | Total % | Capital % | Rank in category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36.37 | 35.00 | 14 / 251 |
| 2024 | 50.69 | 49.78 | 2 / 271 |
| 2023 | 39.60 | 38.47 | 61 / 267 |
| 2022 | -28.56 | -29.60 | 17 / 268 |
| 2021 | 35.27 | 34.70 | 9 / 252 |
| 2020 | 42.01 | 41.37 | 78 / 231 |
| 2019 | 48.20 | 47.30 | 17 / 230 |
Risk statistics · 30 SEP 2026
| 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 10 years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha | 13.29 | 11.70 | 11.23 | — |
| Beta | 2.19 | 1.71 | 1.46 | — |
| R-squared | 66.54 | 53.71 | 60.77 | — |
| Standard deviation | 38.16 | 28.04 | 27.76 | — |
| Sharpe ratio | 1.08 | 1.39 | 0.84 | — |
| Sortino ratio | 2.28 | 3.11 | 1.50 | — |
| Tracking error | 27.83 | 20.92 | 18.61 | — |
| Information ratio | 1.06 | 1.26 | 0.78 | — |
| Upside capture % | 190.31 | 162.50 | 141.51 | — |
| Downside capture % | 92.88 | 69.36 | 92.84 | — |
| Maximum drawdown % | -8.47 | -15.32 | -34.13 | — |
Measured against MSCI ACWI NR USD 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
96.7
Morningstar Portfolio Risk Score at 30 SEP 2026.
- Market impact cost %
- 0.007
- Best quarter
- 55.26% · JUN 2026
- Worst quarter
- -19.40% · JUN 2022
Fees and costs
- Management fees and costs
- 0.40% p.a.
- PDS dated
- 29 JUN 2026
Distributions
- Latest distribution
- 0.4646
- Ex Date
- 23 SEP 2026
- Record Date
- 23 SEP 2026
- Pay Date
- 24 SEP 2026
- NAV at ex date
- 152.53
- Paid this year
- 0.9582
Distributions by year
2024
1.1
2023
0.5
2022
0.4
2021
0.6
2020
0.2
2019
0.2
2018
0.2
2017
0.0
| Year | Per unit ($) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.1072 |
| 2023 | 0.4935 |
| 2022 | 0.4406 |
| 2021 | 0.5724 |
| 2020 | 0.2360 |
| 2019 | 0.1859 |
| 2018 | 0.1804 |
| 2017 | 0.0416 |
Distribution history
| Ex Date | Per unit ($) |
|---|---|
| 23 SEP 2026 | 0.4646 |
| 24 JUN 2026 | 0.2699 |
| 25 MAR 2026 | 0.2236 |
| 29 DEC 2025 | 0.4452 |
| 24 SEP 2025 | 0.2387 |
| 25 JUN 2025 | 0.2656 |
| 26 MAR 2025 | 0.1576 |
| 27 DEC 2024 | 0.0751 |
| 25 SEP 2024 | 0.1178 |
| 26 JUN 2024 | 0.1994 |
| 20 MAR 2024 | 0.1012 |
| 27 DEC 2023 | 0.0884 |
Sustainability rating · 31 AUG 2026
Average
ESG risk score
18.40
Category average 18.42
- Rank in category
- 61st percentile of 1,506 funds
- Environmental risk
- 5.67
- Social risk
- 6.69
- Governance risk
- 4.08
- Portfolio covered
- 87.8%
ESG risk of holdings
- Negligible
- 3.60%
- Low
- 66.36%
- Medium
- 24.89%
- High
- 5.15%
- Severe
- 0.00%
1.26% of assets are in companies with high or severe controversies.
Carbon · 31 AUG 2026
Carbon risk score
5.30
Category average 4.26
- Carbon risk
- Low Risk
- Rank in category
- 86th percentile of 624 funds
- Fossil fuel involvement
- 0.00%
- Category average
- 0.68%
- Low Carbon Designation
- Yes
- Portfolio covered
- 87.8%
Fund managers
- Dustin Lewellyn
- Ernesto Tong
- Christine Johanson
Tenure
- Number of managers
- 3
- Average tenure
- 6.1 years
- Longest tenure
- 8.1 years
- Longest serving
- Dustin Lewellyn, Ernesto Tong · since 4 SEP 2018
- Most recent appointment
- Christine Johanson · since 6 AUG 2024
- Managed since
- 4 SEP 2018
- Other funds managed
- 55
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