AAPB vs AAPD: which held to its multiple?
Over three months against its own daily promise, AAPB finished 1.9 points short and AAPD 1.4 points over. GraniteShares 2x Long AAPL Daily ETF and Direxion Daily AAPL Bear 1X ETF.
AAPB returned +23.7% while 2 times AAPL's move would have been +26.4%
AAPD returned −12.0% while −1 times AAPL's move would have been −13.2%
AAPB among the 470 leveraged ETFs, long, over three months
AAPD among the 125 inverse ETFs over three months
A percentile among the 470 leveraged ETFs, long, over three months. AAPD is a percentile among the 125 inverse ETFs over three months, a different set, so the two marks are not on one scale. 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
| Total return | Multiple would give | Difference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | AAPB | AAPD | AAPB | AAPD | AAPB | AAPD |
| 1 month | +9.5% | −4.6% | +10.2% | −5.1% | −0.7 pts | +0.5 pts |
| 3 months | +23.7% | −12.0% | +26.4% | −13.2% | −2.7 pts | +1.2 pts |
| 6 months | +58.2% | −23.9% | +61.0% | −30.5% | −2.9 pts | +6.6 pts |
| 1 year | +51.5% | −23.6% | +62.5% | −31.3% | −11.0 pts | +7.6 pts |
| 3 years | +135.6% | −49.2% | +194.2% | −97.1% | −58.6 pts | +47.9 pts |
| Since launch AAPB Aug 2022 · AAPD Aug 2022 | +115.4% | −52.4% | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful |
AAPB and AAPD over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →
On the same fields
AAPB and AAPD on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
AAPB in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: AAPB returned +23.7% where its own daily promise gave +25.6%, 1.9 points short. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and 2 times AAPL's 13.2% implies +26.4%, which makes AAPB look 2.7 points short. 0.8 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any 2 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. AAPB aims to return +2 times AAPL's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that. 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. AAPL moved at 28% 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.
AAPD in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: AAPD returned −12.0% where its own daily promise gave −13.4%, 1.4 points over. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and −1 times AAPL's 13.2% implies −13.2%, which makes AAPD look 1.2 points over. 0.2 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any −1 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. AAPD aims to return -1 times AAPL's move each day, then resets. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not -1 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, AAPB or AAPD?
- Over the window to Sep 30, 2026, AAPB finished 2.7 points from what its multiple implies and AAPD finished 1.2 points from its own, so AAPD came closer. Neither figure predicts the next window: it depends on how much the underlying moves about.
- Are AAPB and AAPD levered on the same thing?
- Yes. Both are levered on Apple, AAPB at +2 times and AAPD at -1 times the daily move.
- Which one decays faster, AAPB or AAPD?
- Decay follows how much the underlying moves about. Over this window AAPB’s moved at 28% annualized and AAPD’s at 28%, so AAPB has the rougher ride and, at the same multiple, loses more to compounding.
- Can I hold AAPB or AAPD 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.
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ETFIQ, AAPB against AAPD, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/leverage/aapb-vs-aapd
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Other forms
- Plain
- ETFIQ, AAPB against AAPD, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/leverage/aapb-vs-aapd
- APA
- ETFIQ. (Sep 30, 2026). AAPB against AAPD. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/compare/leverage/aapb-vs-aapd
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