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VanEck Semiconductor ETF SMH · NASDAQ

$463.96 +3.62% (+$16.23)

Summary

VanEck Semiconductor ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by VanEck. Positions inside: 27. The ten largest make up 70% of the fund.

Yearly costs
0.35%
Fund size
$66.4B
Positions
27
Dividend yield
0.24%
Running since
2011

What speaks for it

  • Costs of 0.35% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
  • A large fund with $66.4B under management.
  • Easy to buy and sell: about $4.25B changes hands a day.
  • Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 30%.
  • It has been running since 2011.

What to watch

  • The ten largest positions make up 70% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
  • 100% of the fund is in one sector (Technology).
  • 81% of the fund is in one country (United States).
  • In the last five years its price once dropped by 45% from its high.

A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.

Price

Performance

1 month
-24%
3 months
-20%
This year
+29%
1 year
+33%
3 years
+206%
5 years
+207%
10 years
+1,251%
Avg. market cap
$1.43T
P/E
23.4x
Forward P/E
22.6x
P/S
9.3x
P/B
8.2x
P/FCF
31.7x
EV/EBITDA
18.6x
Dividend yield
0.86%
ROIC
33.1%
ROE
57.0%
Gross margin
63.4%
Operating margin
43.6%
Net margin
40.0%
Payout ratio
20.1%
Net debt/EBITDA
0.3x
Beta
1.79

Weighted average of the 25 largest companies, which make up 100% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.

What is inside?

Concentrated
  1. 1
    NV
    Nvidia NVDA 21%
  2. 2
    TS
    TSMC TSM 9.8%
  3. 3
    TX
    Texas Instruments TXN 6.2%
  4. 4
    AV
    Broadcom AVGO 5.9%
  5. 5
    AD
    Analog Devices ADI 5.0%
  6. 6
    AM
    AMD AMD 5.0%
  7. 7
    AS
    ASML ASML 4.6%
  8. 8
    QC
    Qualcomm QCOM 4.3%
  9. 9
    MU
    Micron MU 4.1%
  10. 10
    KL
    KLA KLAC 4.1%

Positions in the fund: 27. The ten largest make up 70% of it.

Composition as of Nov 7, 2026.

Where is it spread?

One sector dominates

By sector

By country

By company size

By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.

Largest sector: Technology (100%). Largest country: United States (81%). Largest size group: Mega cap (71%).

What does it cost me?

Cheap
A year from $10,000
$35.00
Over 20 years
$1,714

From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $35.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $1,714.

How has it done?

Growing over the long run
A year on average, 10 years
+30%
Deepest drop
-45%
Yearly volatility
43%

Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 30%. Deepest drop in these years: 45% below the earlier high.

Does it pay dividends?

Yes, it pays out
Yield
0.24%
Payments a year
1
Last payment
$1.10

Over the last 12 months it paid $1.10 per share, which is 0.24% of today's price. The last payment was $1.10 on Dec 22, 2025.

Is it easy to buy and sell?

Very easy
Traded a day
$4.25B
Shares a day
9.2M

On an average day about $4.25B of the fund changes hands.

How expensive are the companies inside?

Usual valuation
P/E of the companies inside
23.4
Average Bulios Score
75 out of 100

Weight by Bulios Fair Price

On average the companies inside trade for 23.4 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 96% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.

Counted from its largest companies (25), which make up 100% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.

Similar funds

Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.

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SO
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38
381180.KS MIRAE ASSET TIGER US PHLX Semiconductor Sector Nasdaq ETF
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SO
SOXX iShares Semiconductor ETF
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VV
VVSM.DE VanEck Semiconductor UCITS ETF
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SO
SOXY YieldMax Target 12 Semiconductor Option Income ETF
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CH
CHPY YieldMax Semiconductor Portfolio Option Income ETF
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