Summary
Nicholas Defense and Rare Earth Income ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by Nicholasx. Positions inside: 76. The ten largest make up 63% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 1.11%
- Fund size
- $5.94M
- Positions
- 76
- Dividend yield
- 4.92%
- Running since
- 2026
What speaks for it
Nothing stands out in its favour.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 63% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- 99% of the fund is in one country (United States).
- Costs of 1.11% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- A young fund: it has been running only since 2026.
- A small fund with $5.94M under management; small funds get closed more often.
- It trades little: only about $83.3K changes hands a day.
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
- -8.9%
- 3 months
- -2.9%
- Avg. market cap
- $408.1B
- P/E
- 33.6x
- Forward P/E
- 29.1x
- P/S
- 3.7x
- P/B
- 3.7x
- P/FCF
- 32.2x
- EV/EBITDA
- 24.7x
- Dividend yield
- 0.58%
- ROIC
- 3.8%
- ROE
- 10.8%
- Gross margin
- 1,909,702.9%
- Operating margin
- 12,938,249.1%
- Net margin
- -69,197,912.0%
- Payout ratio
- 19.6%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- -3.4x
- Beta
- 1.10
Weighted average of the 23 largest companies, which make up 77% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 CRCrowdStrike CRWD 11%
- 2 PAPalo Alto Networks PANW 11%
- 3 SPSpaceX SPCX 8.4%
- 4 DBInvesco DB Base Metals Fund DBB 6.8%
- 5 PLPalantir PLTR 6.1%
- 6 SLVanEck Steel ETF SLX 4.5%
- 7 CACACI CACI 4.3%
- 8 RTRTX RTX 3.9%
- 9 PPabrdn Physical Platinum Shares ETF PPLT 3.6%
- 10 CPUnited States Copper Index Fund CPER 3.6%
Positions in the fund: 76. The ten largest make up 63% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One countryBy sector
- Technology 36%
- Industrials 31%
- Financials 23%
- Basic materials 8.6%
- Energy 1.8%
By country
- United States 99%
- Chile 1.8%
By company size
- Mega cap 52%
- Large cap 30%
- Mid cap 13%
- Small cap 3.8%
- Micro cap 1.0%
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. Counted from the companies that make up 77% of the fund.
Largest sector: Technology (36%). Largest country: United States (99%). Largest size group: Mega cap (52%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $111
- Over 20 years
- $5,081
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $111 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 $5,081.
How has it done?
- Deepest drop
- -22%
It has traded for less than a year, too short to judge.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 4.92%
- Last payment
- $0.09
Over the last 12 months it paid $1.88 per share, which is 4.92% of today's price. The last payment was $0.09 on Oct 20, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
It trades little- Traded a day
- $83.3K
- Shares a day
- 2.2K
On an average day about $83.3K of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather expensive- P/E of the companies inside
- 33.6
- Average Bulios Score
- 53 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 11%
- Fairly valued 13%
- Overvalued 75%
On average the companies inside trade for 33.6 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 75% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (23), which make up 77% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
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