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ProShares UltraShort MidCap400

$5.85-0.90% today
5.579.0852-WK

The fund invests in financial instruments that ProShare Advisors believes, in combination, should produce daily returns consistent with the fund's investment objective. The index is a measure of mid-size company U.S. stock market performance. The fund is non-diversified.

Price & daily flows
8.337.326.325.85DAILY NET FLOWAug 25Dec 19Apr 21Aug 21

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1Y SHOWN · NET +$3K OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$2K of net buying over the past month, while the price has returned -24.4% so far this year. At 0.95% a year it is not the cheapest way in — LQD runs the same ground at 0.14%.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$4175.60Tassets under management
0.95%expense ratio · $95 per $10,000 a year
+$2Knet flow, trailing month
17Kavg daily volume, 30 days
8holdings · US-domiciled
2006listed July 12, 2006 · beta -1.97
Sector weights
Other100%
Cash & Others100%
Cash100%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States100%
Other100%
Cash100%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+4.6%
1 month-2.2%
3 months-7.9%
6 months-13.5%
YTD-24.4%
1 year-30.0%
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week
1 month+$2K
3 months+$4K
YTD+$4K
1 year+$3K

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
27%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
31%realized volatility, 1 year
-38.7%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-35.6%where it sits vs. that peak today

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

Options tape
calls today
puts today
put/call ratio
819shares traded
The case against MZZ

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat MZZ on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF0.05%$128.4B+$547M-90bp on fee · +$547M in over the monthHead-to-head
IMCB iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF0.04%$1.7B+$15M-91bp on fee · +$15M in over the monthHead-to-head
VO Vanguard Mid Cap Index Fund0.04%$68.1B-91bp on feeHead-to-head
IMCG iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF0.06%$4.2B+$69M-89bp on fee · +$69M in over the monthHead-to-head
IMCV iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF0.06%$1.2B+$20M-89bp on fee · +$20M in over the monthHead-to-head
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