DRNL Defiance 2X Daily Long Pure Drone and Aerial Automation ETF

Not updated since Oct 2, 2026. Its price did not move on 29 of its last 29 closes. These are its last figures. It is not in ETFIQ’s rankings, scores or comparisons while they are out of date.

Aims to return twice the daily move of Pure Drone and Aerial AutomationDefiance1.31% feeFirst traded Mar 3, 2026Fund page at the issuer ↗SEC filings ↗
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DRNL aims to return +2 times Pure Drone and Aerial Automation's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that.

ETFIQ publishes no comparison for DRNL. Measuring a leveraged fund means pricing what it tracks over the same days, and no live price history was found for Pure Drone and Aerial Automation, so there is nothing to hold its return against. Its own returns below are unaffected, and it is left out of every ranking and score in this category rather than placed last in them.

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In plain words

Summary
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. DRNL itself moved at 107% annualized over that window.
Sets out to return+2 times the daily move of Pure Drone and Aerial Automation, reset daily
UnderlyingPure Drone and Aerial Automation (no investable tracker)
Segmentsector or country, theme
Expense ratio (485BPOS XBRL, Jan 26, 2026)1.31%
First tradedMar 3, 2026
Volatility, annualized107%
How this is computed
Returns are ETFIQ calculations from Tiingo end-of-day prices, distributions reinvested, measured against the underlying over exactly the same days. How these figures are computed

Questions people ask about DRNL

Why does DRNL not return +2 times over a year?
Because it resets daily. DRNL aims at +2 times each day's move, and daily results compound. Over a run where the underlying falls and comes back, compounding a levered daily return leaves a holder behind what +2 times the period move would suggest; over a steady run in one direction it can leave them ahead. The longer the holding, and the more the underlying moves about, the further apart the two figures get.
Sources and dates
Prices, DRNLTiingo end-of-day prices ↗
Fee, 1.31%SEC 485BPOS XBRL · Jan 26, 2026
IssuerDefiance page for DRNL ↗
All fund filingsFund filings on SEC EDGAR ↗
SourceSEC investment company series and class file, which lists every registered fund ↗

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ETFIQ, DRNL, leveraged ETFs, data as of Oct 2, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/drnl

Free to use with attribution for figures ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data.

Stated multiple
What the fund sets out to return against its underlying, each day. A fund at 2x aims to return twice the underlying’s daily move, and an inverse fund at -2x aims to return twice it in the opposite direction.
Daily reset
The fund starts each day aiming at the multiple again, from wherever it now stands. It is the mechanism that makes these funds behave as they do, and the reason the stated multiple applies to a day rather than to a holding period.
Compounding
Daily results multiply together rather than adding up. Two days of the multiple is not twice the multiple, and over a run of days the difference between the two grows with how far the underlying moves about.
Decay
What compounding costs a holder when the underlying falls and rises back to where it started. The underlying is level and the fund is down; the more violently it moved, the further down.
Difference against the stated multiple
The fund’s return minus the stated multiple times the underlying’s return, in percentage points. The one figure that says whether a holder got what the fund’s own multiple describes.
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