DXD vs SDOW: which held to its multiple?
Over three months against its own daily promise, DXD finished 2.6 points over and SDOW 4.0 points over. ProShares UltraShort Dow30 and ProShares UltraPro Short Dow30.
DXD returned +6.3% while −2 times DIA's move would have been +4.6%
SDOW returned +9.1% while −3 times DIA's move would have been +7.0%
A percentile among the 125 inverse ETFs 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
| Total return | Multiple would give | Difference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | DXD | SDOW | DXD | SDOW | DXD | SDOW |
| 1 month | +9.2% | +14.0% | +8.2% | +12.3% | +1.0 pts | +1.6 pts |
| 3 months | +6.3% | +9.1% | +4.6% | +7.0% | +1.7 pts | +2.1 pts |
| 6 months | −15.3% | −23.2% | −20.1% | −30.1% | +4.7 pts | +6.8 pts |
| 1 year | −14.8% | −24.0% | −22.6% | −33.8% | +7.7 pts | +9.8 pts |
| 3 years | −52.0% | −70.8% | −118.6% | −177.9% | +66.6 pts | +107.2 pts |
| Since launch DXD Jan 2010 · SDOW Feb 2010 | −99.0% | −100.0% | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful | not meaningful |
DXD and SDOW over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →
On the same fields
DXD and SDOW on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
DXD in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: DXD returned +6.3% where its own daily promise gave +3.7%, 2.6 points over. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and −2 times DIA's −2.3% implies +4.6%, which makes DXD look 1.7 points over. 0.9 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any −2 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. DXD aims to return -2 times DIA'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. DIA moved at 12% 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.
SDOW in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: SDOW returned +9.1% where its own daily promise gave +5.1%, 4.0 points over. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and −3 times DIA's −2.3% implies +7.0%, which makes SDOW look 2.1 points over. 1.8 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any −3 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. SDOW aims to return -3 times DIA's move each day, then resets. 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.
Questions people ask
- Which came closer to its stated multiple, DXD or SDOW?
- Over the window to Sep 30, 2026, DXD finished 1.7 points from what its multiple implies and SDOW finished 2.1 points from its own, so DXD came closer. Neither figure predicts the next window: it depends on how much the underlying moves about.
- Are DXD and SDOW levered on the same thing?
- Yes. Both are levered on the Dow 30, DXD at -2 times and SDOW at -3 times the daily move.
- Which one decays faster, DXD or SDOW?
- Decay follows how much the underlying moves about. Over this window DXD’s moved at 12% annualized and SDOW’s at 12%, so DXD has the rougher ride and, at the same multiple, loses more to compounding.
- Can I hold DXD or SDOW 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, DXD against SDOW, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/leverage/dxd-vs-sdow
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