Data as of .
LABU vs XBIX: which held to its multiple?
Over three months against its own daily promise, LABU finished 3.7 points short and XBIX 3.4 points short.
ETFIQ Decay Resistance Score: XBIX scores higher
Did it keep up with its own daily multiple, compounded day by day?
A percentile among the 391 leveraged ETFs, long, over three months. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All leveraged ETFs ranked by it · How it is computed
Performance, window by window
| Window | Total return | Multiple would give | Difference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LABU | XBIX | LABU | XBIX | LABU | XBIX | |
| 1 month | −8.9% | −5.5% | −6.0% | −4.0% | −2.9 pts | −1.5 pts |
| 3 months | +46.3% | +30.4% | +50.6% | +33.7% | −4.3 pts | −3.4 pts |
| 6 months | +75.5% | not published | +85.0% | not published | −9.4 pts | not published |
| 1 year | +217.9% | not published | +191.8% | not published | +26.0 pts | not published |
| 3 years | +172.2% | not published | +295.9% | not published | −123.7 pts | not published |
| Since launch | −91.4% | +37.4% | not meaningful | +40.9% | not meaningful | −3.5 pts |
| LABU Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3X ETF Aims to return three times the daily move of biotech (XBI) | XBIX Corgi U.S. Biotech 2x Daily ETF Aims to return twice the daily move of biotech (XBI) | |
|---|---|---|
| Issuer | Direxion | Corgi |
| Sets out to return | +3x | +2x |
| On | XBI | XBI |
| Segment | sector | sector |
| Fund returned, 3 months | +46.3% | +30.4% |
| Underlying returned, 3 months | +16.9% | +16.9% |
| What the stated multiple implies, 3 months | +50.6% | +33.7% |
| Difference from stated, 3 months | −4.3 pts | −3.4 pts |
| Fund returned, 1 year or since launch | +217.9% | +37.4% |
| Difference from stated, over that window | +26.0 pts | −3.5 pts |
| Underlying volatility | 29% | 29% |
| Expense ratio | 0.96% | 0.45% |
| Launched | May 28, 2015 | Jun 3, 2026 |
LABU in plain words
Three months to Sep 11, 2026: LABU returned +46.3% where its own daily promise gave +50.0%, 3.7 points short. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and +3 times XBI's 16.9% implies +50.6%, which makes LABU look 4.3 points short. 0.6 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any +3 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. LABU aims to return +3 times XBI's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not +3 times the period's move: in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less, and in a steady run it can be more. XBI moved at 29% annualized over that window. That is what decides how far the two figures separate: the same fund on a calm underlying and a violent one is a different product.
XBIX in plain words
Three months to Sep 11, 2026: XBIX returned +30.4% where its own daily promise gave +33.8%, 3.4 points short. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and +2 times XBI's 16.9% implies +33.7%, which makes XBIX look 3.4 points short. 0.0 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any +2 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. XBIX aims to return +2 times XBI's move each day, then resets. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not +2 times the period's move: in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less, and in a steady run it can be more.
Questions people ask
- Which came closer to its stated multiple, LABU or XBIX?
- Over the window to Sep 11, 2026, LABU finished 4.3 points from what its multiple implies and XBIX finished 3.4 points from its own, so XBIX came closer. Neither figure predicts the next window: it depends on how much the underlying moves about.
- Are LABU and XBIX levered on the same thing?
- Yes. Both are levered on biotech, LABU at +3 times and XBIX at +2 times the daily move.
- Which one decays faster, LABU or XBIX?
- Decay follows how much the underlying moves about. Over this window LABU’s moved at 29% annualized and XBIX’s at 29%, so LABU has the rougher ride and, at the same multiple, loses more to compounding.
- Can I hold LABU or XBIX for a year?
- Both reset every day, so the multiple in the name applies to a single day and the daily results compound. Over a year the total is not the multiple times the year’s move, and in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less. ETFIQ makes no recommendation either way.
- Which is cheaper, LABU or XBIX?
- LABU charges 0.96% a year and XBIX charges 0.45%, so XBIX is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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Where these figures came from
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Cite this page. ETFIQ, LABU against XBIX, data as of Sep 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/leverage/LABU-XBIX Free to use with attribution; the underlying files are at Open data.