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SMST

InverseSingle Stock

Defiance Daily Target 2x Short MSTR ETF

Expense Ratio
1.38%
AUM
$32M
Inception
8/22/2024
1Y Return
-52.1%21st %ilevs 221 asset-class peers
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The fund invests at least 80% of its investment exposure in financial instruments providing 2 times the inverse exposure to the daily performance of the Underlying Security, primarily using derivatives like swap agreements and listed options contracts. It may allocate 40% to 75% of its assets as collateral for swaps or premiums for options, and it is classified as non-diversified. The fund's strategy results in high portfolio turnover and is concentrated in the software industry assigned to the Underlying Security.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
SMST
Defiance Daily Target 2x Short MSTR ETF
-52.1%-52.1%163.2%-0.34-92.5%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
SMST
Defiance Daily Target 2x Short MSTR ETF
-86.0%13.2%-3.0%-29.4%-78.4%-80.2%-52.1%-88.7%-90.3%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
20242025YTD
SMST
Defiance Daily Target 2x Short MSTR ETF
-90.9%*-44.4%-86.0%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

Correlation Matrix

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
SMSTUS
Defiance Daily Target 2x Short MSTR ETF
145.4%-4.79**0.561.503.71**-1.492.53**2.42**0.35226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.

SnapshotAs ofvsⓘ

Fund ProfileInverseSingle StockNon-Diversified

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
Family
Registrant
Type
ETF
Asset Class
Peer Asset Class
Inverse
Prospectus Benchmark
S And P500 Total Return Index
Peer Group
Inverse - Equity (188 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
21
Expense Ratio
1.38%
AUM
$32M
Yield
0.00%
Inception
8/22/2024
Holdings (Reported)
7
Non-Diversified
Yes
Turnover
0%
Equity
93%
Derivatives
93%
Net Equity Exposure
-175%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 80% of its investment exposure in financial instruments providing 2 times the inverse exposure to the daily performance of the Underlying Security, primarily using derivatives like swap agreements and listed options contracts. It may allocate 40% to 75% of its assets as collateral for swaps or premiums for options, and it is classified as non-diversified. The fund's strategy results in high portfolio turnover and is concentrated in the software industry assigned to the Underlying Security.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (7/27/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Composite Factors

Not scored — SMST’s holdings don’t clear the coverage floor for composite factor scores.

Factor DetailsRef: Inverse Funds

None of the selected metrics are scored for SMST — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).

ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Inverse Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Holdings

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7 positions

#NameTickerWeight %SectorIndustryCountry
1StrategyMSTR
30.16
TechnologySoftwareUSA
2StrategyMSTR
29.97
TechnologySoftwareUSA
3StrategyMSTR
23.82
TechnologySoftwareUSA
4StrategyMSTR
22.92
TechnologySoftwareUSA
5Treasury Bill-
7.72
--USA
6StrategyMSTR
1.99
TechnologySoftwareUSA
7First American Government Obli-
0.74
--USA
ⓘ Methodology

Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Inverse Funds

Total Holdings7
Effective Holdings4.6
Top 10 Weight117.3%
Max Position30.2%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)109%
Top Country (of Net Assets)100%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Inverse Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
SMST
Defiance Daily Target 2x Short MSTR ETF
Peer Group
188 funds
Peer Asset Class
221 funds
YTD Return
-85.96%-23.88%7-21.64%6
1Y Return
-52.08%-23.92%21-20.01%21
3Y Return (Ann.)
---
5Y Return (Ann.)
---
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
1.38%1.02%321.00%29
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (233 share classes across 188 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity8
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
Top FF Match
FundPeer Group
1FIAT
YieldMax(R) Short Coin Option Income Strategy ETF
Options - Income
Options - Income
8----
2LLYX
Defiance Daily Target 2x Long Lly ETF
Leveraged - Equity
Leveraged - Equity
8----
3STXT
Strive Total Return Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
8----
4NVOX
Defiance Daily Target 2x Long Nvo ETF
Leveraged - Equity
Leveraged - Equity
8----
5CRSH
YieldMax(R) Short Tsla Option Income Strategy ETF
Options - Income
Options - Income
1----
6SCPAX
SIIT LARGE CAP DISCIPLINED EQUITY FUND
US Large Core
US Large Core
1----
7MSTX
Defiance Daily Target 2x Long MSTR ETF
Leveraged - Equity
Leveraged - Equity
1----
8PFXF
VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF
Preferred Stock
Preferred Stock
1----
9QLEIX
AQR Long-Short Equity Fund
Alts - Long/Short Equity
Alts - Long/Short Equity
0----
10NTIIX
Navigator Tactical Investment Grade Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
0----

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days). Fama-French Similarity = 1/(1+d), where d is the Euclidean distance between factor betas (market, size, value, profitability, investment, momentum, intangible value) from up to three years of daily returns (min 378 daily observations and regression R² of at least 0.25); 1.00 = identical loadings.