Best Cybersecurity ETFs: iShares and First Trust
iShares Cyber Security and Technology ETF (IHAK)
- Annual Performance: 49.6 percent
- Expense Rate: 0.47 percent
- Annual Dividend Yield: 0.39 Percent
- 3-Month Average Daily Volume: 127.119
- Assets Managed: $ 348.1 million
- Start Date: 11 June 2019
- Organizer: iShares
IHAK is a multi-capital fund focused on cyber security companies. The fund tracks the NYSE FactSet Global Cyber Security Index, which consists of cybersecurity and technology stocks. This ETF invests in companies dealing with cybersecurity hardware, software, products, and services. About 80 percent of the fund's 48 assets are located in the US, with the rest in Israel, Japan, Canada and Taiwan. It acts with the vision to invest in growth and share values (mixed investment).
Among the Fund's largest conglomerates are Class A shares of CrowdStrike Holdings and Canadian multinational BlackBerry Limited (BB: TSE) and Palo Alto Networks Inc., which provide Software and services.
First Trust Nasdaq CTA Cybersecurity ETF (CIBR)
- Annual Performance: 48,1 percent
- Expense Rate: 0.60 percent
- Annual Dividend Yield: 1.09 percent
- 3-Month Average Daily Volume: 735.500
- Managed Assets: $ 3.5 billion
- Start Date: 6 July 2015
- Organizer: First Trust
CIBR is a multi-capital growth fund targeting US-based stocks. This ETF tracks the NASDAQ CTA Cybersecurity Index, designed to measure the performance of cybersecurity companies in the technology and industry sectors. Each of the Fund's 41 shares must be classified by the Consumer Technologies Association as a cybersecurity company, with a minimum market value of $ 250 million, and meet certain liquidity requirements (mandatory requirements).
The fund's three largest conglomerates are Class A shares of CrowdStrike Holdings, Zscaler Inc, and telecommunications, network hardware and software pioneer Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO).
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