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Alternatives Funds · 251 total

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SVXY

Commodity PoolInverse

ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF

Expense Ratio
0.95%
AUM
$260M
Inception
10/5/2011
1Y Return
+29.0%93rd %ilevs 251 asset-class peers

The index seeks to offer exposure to market volatility through publicly traded futures markets and is designed to measure the implied volatility of the S&P 500 over 30 days in the future.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
SVXY
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF
29.0%29.0%28.8%0.87-22.9%
ⓘ 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
SVXY
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF
17.5%-0.3%2.0%2.5%12.6%41.5%29.0%18.7%15.1%18.0%27.0%
ⓘ Methodology

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

Annual Returns

Name
201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
SVXY
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF
24.2%*150.4%106.2%-9.3%-17.5%80.3%181.8%-51.6%54.2%-36.5%47.9%-4.3%76.2%-3.2%10.6%17.5%
ⓘ 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
SVXYUS
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF
-0.4%2.06**-0.120.42*0.19-0.04-0.09-0.130.68226
ⓘ 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.

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Fund ProfileInverse

Family
Type
ETF
Asset Class
Peer Asset Class
Alternatives
Peer Group Benchmark
Structure
Commodity Pool
Underlying
S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index (0.5x short)
Peer Group
Alts - Short Volatility (6 peers)
Expense Ratio
0.95%
AUM
$260M
Yield
0.00%
Inception
10/5/2011
Turnover
0%
Strategy Summary

The index seeks to offer exposure to market volatility through publicly traded futures markets and is designed to measure the implied volatility of the S&P 500 over 30 days in the future.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio from the sponsor's website. Turnover from market data (10/6/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Summary may be from an older prospectus.

SVXY is a commodity pool, not a registered fund, so it files no holdings report.

Factor DetailsRef: Alternatives Funds

SVXY has no stock-level metrics. Fund-level metrics such as AUM and expense ratio are available in the picker.

ⓘ 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 (Alternatives Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
SVXY
ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures ETF
Peer Group
6 funds
Peer Asset Class
251 funds
YTD Return
17.53%-7.46%83
1Y Return
28.97%-9.54%93
3Y Return (Ann.)
15.08%-9.55%78
5Y Return (Ann.)
17.97%-5.24%93
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.95%-1.42%71
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (7 share classes across 6 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 Similarity31
Top Return Corr
Top FF Match
FundPeer Group
1ZVOL
Volatility Premium Plus ETF
Alts - Short Volatility
Alts - Short Volatility
31--
2ABRSX
ABR 50/50 VOLATILITY FUND
Alts - Long Volatility
Alts - Long Volatility
20--
3SVOL
Simplify Volatility Premium ETF
Alts - Short Volatility
Alts - Short Volatility
4--
4PEPS
Parametric Equity Plus ETF
US Large Core
US Large Core
3--
5QDVSX
FIIG ESG STOCK PLAN FOR RETIREMENT
Global Large Core
Global Large Core
3--
6OVL
Overlay Shares Large Cap Equity ETF
US Large Core
US Large Core
3--
7FHESX
Federated Hermes SDG Engagement Equity Fund
Global SMID Core
Global SMID Core
3--
8GWOAX
GMO Global Developed Equity Allocation Fund
Global Large Value
Global Large Value
3--
9PZINX
Pzena International Value Fund
Global ex-US Large Value
Global ex-US Large Value
3--
10DVSP
WEBs SPY Defined Volatility ETF
US Large Core
US Large Core
3--

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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. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). 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.