Here are the top performing country ETF categories over the last 3 months: 🥇 🇳🇴 Norway +13.79% 🥈 🇨🇴 Colombia +12.93% 🥉 🇵🇱 Poland +12.65% 4. 🇧🇷 Brazil +11.80% 5. 🇬🇷 Greece +11.34% 6. 🇸🇬 Singapore +10.91% 7. Broad Africa +9.22% 8. 🇩🇰 Denmark +7.53% 9. 🇮🇪 Ireland +6.16% 10. ASEAN +5.99% 11. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong +5.83% 12. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom +5.52% 13. Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan +5.37% 14. 🇨🇦 Canada +4.72% 15. Broad Latin America +4.64% 16. 🇫🇮 Finland +3.34% 17. 🇵🇪 Peru +3.16% 18. 🇿🇦 South Africa +2.92% 19. 🇩🇪 Germany +2.53% 20. Broad North America +2.50% 21. 🇮🇩 Indonesia +2.48% 22. 🇸🇪 Sweden +2.46% 23. 🇦🇺 Australia +1.99% 24. 🇯🇵 Japan +1.95% 25. 🇳🇿 New Zealand +1.87% 26. Broad Global ex-US +1.57% 27. 🇧🇪 Belgium +1.54% 28. 🇮🇱 Israel +1.28% 29. 🇦🇹 Austria +1.26% 30. Broad Developed Europe +1.19% 31. 🇺🇸 US +1.17% 32. EAFE +1.15% 33. Broad Developed Asia Pacific +1.07% 34. 🇮🇹 Italy +0.96% 35. 🇹🇭 Thailand +0.35% 36. 🇹🇼 Taiwan +0.17% 37. 🇲🇾 Malaysia -0.11% 38. Broad Asia-Pacific (Broad) -0.46% 39. BRIC -0.70% 40. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates -0.74% 41. Broad Developed Markets -0.90% 42. Broad Global -1.00% 43. 🇨🇭 Switzerland -1.67% 44. 🇨🇱 Chile -2.61% 45. 🇮🇳 India -2.69% 46. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia -2.94% 47. 🇦🇷 Argentina -3.01% 48. 🇫🇷 France -3.06% 49. Broad Emerging Markets -3.24% 50. Broad Emerging Asia Pacific -3.50% 51. 🇨🇳 China -3.57% 52. 🇲🇽 Mexico -4.05% 53. 🇻🇳 Vietnam -4.13% 54. Broad Asia Pacific ex-Japan -4.83% 55. 🇵🇭 Philippines -6.78% 56. 🇹🇷 Turkey -7.96% 57. 🇶🇦 Qatar -8.37% 58. 🇰🇷 South Korea -18.48% 59. 🇳🇱 Netherlands -18.91%

There’s no shortage of ETFs focused on chip stocks, but $CHIP looks further upstream, at the companies that make the equipment chipmakers need. It’s one of four ETF launches that caught our attention this week: 1️⃣ $CHIP covers equipment for wafer fabrication, advanced packaging, and testing. 2️⃣ $SECA moves among stocks and sectors based on valuations and potential catalysts. 3️⃣ $CTAG brings Calamos Timpani’s small- and mid-cap growth strategy into an ETF. 4️⃣ $HWMV adds an ETF share class to Hotchkis & Wiley’s mid-cap value fund. #ETFs #Investing #Markets

Here's how the Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF $VO has performed each full year since 2005: 2005: +13.97% 🟢 2006: +13.93% 🟢 2007: +5.51% 🟢 2008: -41.56% 🔴 2009: +40.44% 🟢 2010: +25.68% 🟢 2011: -2.08% 🔴 2012: +16.22% 🟢 2013: +35.04% 🟢 2014: +13.75% 🟢 2015: -1.35% 🔴 2016: +11.26% 🟢 2017: +19.27% 🟢 2018: -9.22% 🔴 2019: +30.97% 🟢 2020: +18.06% 🟢 2021: +24.69% 🟢 2022: -18.72% 🔴 2023: +16.04% 🟢 2024: +15.30% 🟢 2025: +11.62% 🟢 So far in 2026: +10.94% 🟢

Margin debt reached $1.45 trillion in August, up 37% from a year earlier. If stocks fall, margin calls could put more sellers into the market at the same time. ⏯️ In this week’s Charts in Perspective, @MurphyCinthia looks at margin debt around past market peaks to put that risk in context: piped.video/OfTBOltWnZ8 #MarginDebt #Economics #Macroeconomics #ETFs

$INFQ says it got 30 error-protected qubits working together on its quantum computer, hitting a goal it set for 2026. ⚛️ TLDR: It's a big milestone for quantum bulls. Watching $INFQ through quantum ETFs? Here’s how much of the stock these four funds hold: $QTUP: 9.15% weighting $CQTM: 5.81% $WQTM: 4.95% $QTUM: 1.18%

Here are the largest ETFs and how they've performed over the last 5 years: Vanguard S&P 500 ETF $VOO +13.46% 🟢 iShares Core S&P 500 ETF $IVV +13.46% 🟢 State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF $SPY +13.40% 🟢 Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF $VTI +12.28% 🟢 Invesco QQQ Trust Series I $QQQ +15.62% 🟢 Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF $VEA +9.96% 🟢 Vanguard Growth ETF $VUG +13.07% 🟢 iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF $IEFA +8.58% 🟢 Vanguard Value ETF $VTV +12.70% 🟢 State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF $SPYM +13.47% 🟢 Vanguard Total International Stock ETF $VXUS +9.12% 🟢 iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF $IEMG +8.74% 🟢 Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF $BND -0.70% 🔴 Vanguard Information Technology ETF $VGT +20.02% 🟢 SPDR Gold Shares $GLD +18.89% 🟢 iShares Core US Aggregate Bond ETF $AGG -0.67% 🔴 iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF $IWF +12.70% 🟢 Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF $VWO +6.58% 🟢 State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF $XLK +21.26% 🟢 iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF $IJH +8.03% 🟢 iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF $SGOV +3.76% 🟢 Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF $VIG +10.56% 🟢 Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF $SCHD +9.64% 🟢 Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF $QQQM +15.70% 🟢 Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF $VO +7.24% 🟢

For more than two decades, Rob D. Arnott has challenged one of indexing’s most common conventions: that a company’s weight should be determined by its market capitalization. On this week’s @ETFPrime, Arnott joins host @NateGeraci to trace that thinking back to the dot-com bust and explain how fundamental indexing weights companies according to their economic footprint. Plus, @Vetta_Fi President @TomHendrickSun shares why RAFI Indices was such a natural fit and how the acquisition takes @Vetta_Fi beyond thematic indexing and into core equity and fixed income. 🎧 Tune in now: etfdb.com/etf-prime/etfprime… #ETFPrime #ETF #ETFs #FinancialServices

Here's how the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF $IGV has performed each full year since 2002: 2002: -44.69% 🔴 2003: +50.02% 🟢 2004: +13.50% 🟢 2005: -5.53% 🔴 2006: +10.76% 🟢 2007: +15.75% 🟢 2008: -38.43% 🔴 2009: +47.53% 🟢 2010: +24.64% 🟢 2011: -7.32% 🔴 2012: +16.77% 🟢 2013: +30.68% 🟢 2014: +13.42% 🟢 2015: +12.12% 🟢 2016: +5.80% 🟢 2017: +42.15% 🟢 2018: +12.45% 🟢 2019: +34.33% 🟢 2020: +52.87% 🟢 2021: +12.30% 🟢 2022: -35.65% 🔴 2023: +58.56% 🟢 2024: +23.41% 🟢 2025: +5.56% 🟢 so far in 2026: +1.02% 🟢

🚨NEW INVESCO ETF🚨 Invesco has launched the Invesco Nasdaq International Innovators 100 ETF $QQI 🌎 - First internationally focused strategy in the Invesco QQQ Innovation Suite - Tracks the Nasdaq International Innovators 100 Index, selecting 100 companies outside the US with the highest "Innovator" scores based on R&D intensity, revenue growth, and profitability - Reweighted quarterly, rebalanced semi-annually in June and December - Expense ratio: 0.29%

$SMCI is giving traders plenty to argue about again. @nvidia Vera Rubin rack shipments are underway, and reported @SpaceX-related AI infrastructure work is adding fuel. Think this is the catalyst that finally gets $SMCI moving? Here are 4 ETFs offering exposure: $RVER: 7.58% weighting $FINX: 3.81% $ARKF: 2.32% $VBK: 0.66%

Here's how the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF $IGV has performed each full year since 2002: 2002: -44.69% 🔴 2003: +50.02% 🟢 2004: +13.50% 🟢 2005: -5.53% 🔴 2006: +10.76% 🟢 2007: +15.75% 🟢 2008: -38.43% 🔴 2009: +47.53% 🟢 2010: +24.64% 🟢 2011: -7.32% 🔴 2012: +16.77% 🟢 2013: +30.68% 🟢 2014: +13.42% 🟢 2015: +12.12% 🟢 2016: +5.80% 🟢 2017: +42.15% 🟢 2018: +12.45% 🟢 2019: +34.33% 🟢 2020: +52.87% 🟢 2021: +12.30% 🟢 2022: -35.65% 🔴 2023: +58.56% 🟢 2024: +23.41% 🟢 2025: +5.56% 🟢 so far in 2026: +1.38% 🟢

A portfolio can be both sensible and fun. @EricBalchunas explains how low-cost index funds can anchor the sensible part while a little room for speculation keeps investors from tinkering with that foundation. #ETF #ETFs #ETFDb #Investing

Here are the top 30 holdings in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF $VOO: NVIDIA $NVDA 8.08% weighting Apple $AAPL 7.03% Microsoft $MSFT 5.69% Amazon $AMZN 3.84% Google $GOOGL 3.01% Broadcom $AVGO 2.65% Google $GOOG 2.39% Meta Platforms $META 1.90% Micron Technology $MU 1.63% Tesla $TSLA 1.56% JPMorgan Chase $JPM 1.44% Berkshire Hathaway $BRK/B 1.40% Eli Lilly $LLY 1.38% Advanced Micro Devices $AMD 1.16% ExxonMobil $XOM 1.01% Johnson & Johnson $JNJ 0.97% Visa $V 0.93% Mastercard $MA 0.72% Walmart $WMT 0.69% AbbVie $ABBV 0.68% Intel $INTC 0.67% Cisco Systems $CSCO 0.66% Palantir Technologies $PLTR 0.65% Costco Wholesale $COST 0.63% Bank of America $BAC 0.61% Chevron $CVX 0.58% Lam Research $LRCX 0.57% Caterpillar $CAT 0.55% Merck $MRK 0.55% Applied Materials $AMAT 0.55%

$SOFI became the first U.S. national bank to go live with stablecoin settlement across Mastercard’s global payments network. 🚀 Shares jumped before the opening bell, then gave up those gains. Think the story has more room to run? These 4 ETFs offer $SOFI exposure inside a broader basket: $RVER: 7.55% weighting $BUZZ: 2.43% $MILN: 1.27% $SATO: 0.56%

Here are the top ETFs with the most Meta $META exposure: 🥇 GraniteShares 2x Long META Daily ETF $FBL 99.96% 🥈 Direxion Daily META Bull 2X ETF $METU 27.63% 🥉 Fidelity MSCI Communication Services Index ETF $FCOM 23.64% 4. Global X PureCap MSCI Communication Services ETF $GXPC 22.43% 5. Meta AI Lab Ecosystem ETF $MTAW 22.13% 6. Vanguard Communication Services ETF $VOX 20.48% 7. State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF $XLC 19.88% 8. Defiance AI Hyperscale Leaders ETF $AIHY 19.82% 9. Roundhill META WeeklyPay ETF $METW 19.82% 10. iShares Global Comm Services ETF $IXP 18.31% 11. ProShares Ultra Communication Services $LTL 13.91% 12. Direxion Daily Magnificent 7 Bull 2X ETF $QQQU 13.35% 13. Amplify Video Game Leaders ETF $GAMR 11.34% 14. TappAlpha Cboe Magnificent 10 Growth & Daily Income ETF $TMGN 11.29% 15. Direxion META Defined Income Boost ETF $MEIB 11.14% 16. Global X Social Media ETF $SOCL 11.10% 17. Founder-Led ETF $FDRS 11.04% 18. VistaShares Target 15 ACKtivist Distribution ETF $ACKY 10.33% 19. First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund $FDN 10.18% 20. FT Vest Dow Jones Internet & Target Income ETF $FDND 10.13%

Sector ETFs had a strong showing on ETFDb last week. $CIBR, $XLK, $XLE, and $VGT all ranked among our most-viewed tickers, spanning cybersecurity, technology, and energy. But look past the sector labels, and the comparison gets more interesting. The funds vary in breadth, concentration, and index construction, differences that can matter just as much as the sector call itself. 👀 #ETF #ETFs

$META is rallying sharply ahead of Meta Connect, with Muse AI hype, a Wells Fargo price-target hike, and heavy call buying adding fuel. For ETF traders, concentration is the key difference. Here are 4 #ETFs with significant $META exposure $FCOM: 23.64% weight $GAMR: 11.34% $SOCL: 11.10% $FDRS: 11.04% #Meta #ETF #ETFs

Two issuers filed to launch ETFs tied to how individual MLB teams actually perform on the field, not team ownership or stock... ⚾️ @LeagueSharesETF filed 30 base ETFs, one per team @REXShares filed 30 more, each a 2X leveraged version of a LeagueShares team fund That's 60 new MLB-linked ETFs filed on the same day

Think indexing was an overnight success? @Bloomberg's @EricBalchunas says it was anything but. He brought the receipts to @ETFPrime, along with one fun fact that even left host @NateGeraci impressed. 👀 #ETF #ETFs #FinancialServices #ETFPrime

Here are the top performing Leveraged 3X ETFs so far in 2026: 🥇 Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X ETF $SOXL +194.24% 🥈 MicroSectors Energy 3X Leveraged ETNs $WTIU +159.83% 🥉 Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3X ETF $KORU +120.70% 4. Direxion Daily Energy Bull 2X ETF $ERX +96.79% 5. Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X ETF $TECL +80.28% 6. Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3X ETF $LABU +65.13% 7. Direxion Daily MSCI Emerging Markets Bull 3X ETF $EDC +44.95% 8. Direxion Daily Pharmaceutical & Medical Bull 3X ETF $PILL +41.33% 9. ProShares UltraPro QQQ $TQQQ +38.32% 10. Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X ETF $TNA +36.18% 11. ProShares UltraPro Russell2000 $URTY +35.87% 12. MicroSectors FANG+ 3X Leveraged ETNs $FNGU +30.56% 13. Direxion Daily MSCI Brazil Bull 2X ETF $BRZU +29.63% 14. Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bull 3X ETF $SPXL +28.07% 15. ProShares UltraPro S&P500 $UPRO +27.72% 16. Direxion Daily FTSE China Bear 3X ETF $YANG +26.91% 17. Direxion Daily Regional Banks Bull 3X ETF $DPST +24.50% 18. Direxion Daily Mid Cap Bull 3X ETF $MIDU +22.49% 19. ProShares UltraPro MidCap400 $UMDD +22.17% 20. Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bear 3X ETF $TMV +20.62% 21. Direxion Daily 7-10 Year Treasury Bear 3X ETF $TYO +20.46% 22. ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury $TTT +18.44% 23. Direxion Daily Healthcare Bull 3X ETF $CURE +15.90% 24. Direxion Daily Industrials Bull 3X ETF $DUSL +15.09% 25. ProShares UltraPro Dow30 $UDOW +14.87%