VCLN Virtus Duff & Phelps Clean Energy ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, VCLN returned 2.2%.
Promise check: Not measuredIts theme exposure is measured once ETFIQ defines its theme company by company.
VCLN risk and return scorecard
vs its own holdings
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Money in and out
Net fund flows · Jul 31, 2026What you earned
What did you actually buy?
Clean energy · holdings as of Jul 31, 2026More on VCLN
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$25.31−0.6%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 28, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
| Window | Total return | S&P 500 (SPY) |
|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | −6.1% | +0.9% |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −3.8% | +6.1% |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −17.6% | +9.1% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −0.5% | +14.1% |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +2.2% | +13.6% |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +71.3% | +95.0% |
| 5Y Oct 29, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026 | −5.1% | +79.8% |
| Since launch Aug 4, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026 | +4.3% | +88.7% |
| Since launch, annualised Aug 4, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.8% | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
Money in and out
Monthly data · as of Jul 31, 2026VCLN: in the month to Jul 31, 2026, nothing net moved, by its SEC filing.
Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
Aug 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions VCLN files with the SEC on Form N-PORT.
How this is computed
ETFIQ reads no daily data for this fund, so its flows are monthly, and the latest month filed is Jul 2026. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for VCLN, back to Aug 2021, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare VCLN with other funds in the flows tool
Month by month, money in and money outAug 2023 to Jul 2026
VCLN, money in and money out each month from Aug 2023 to Jul 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from VCLN’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 4 and went out in 4.
Every bar is from VCLN’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 4 and went out in 4.
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How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Jul 31, 2026. Updated when the fund files its next report.
VCLN key stats
Trading
as of Oct 14, 2025
VCLN top ten by weight, 49.2% of the fund, of its 42 equity positions, from the holdings filed for Jul 31, 2026. Source: the fund’s SEC filing.
Source: Holdings filing (SEC Form N-PORT).
About VCLN
How we measure
12 seats on VCLN, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Mixed, 5 Challenges, 6 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about VCLN
- How much of VCLN is in S&P 500 companies?
- By its holdings filed for Jul 31, 2026, 15% of VCLN by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Its active share against the index is 99%, so that share is the part doing something different.
- What does VCLN hold?
- 42 positions as filed for Jul 31, 2026, with the top ten at 49% of the fund. The largest are FIRST SOLAR INC at 8.1%, BLOOM ENERGY CORP at 6.9%, CHINA YANGTZE POWER CO LTD at 6.6%.
- Has VCLN beaten the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 VCLN returned +2.2% with distributions reinvested, against +13.6% for the S&P 500, so it finished behind the index by 11.4 points.
- What does VCLN cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.59% a year. Because 99% of the fund differs from the S&P 500, the fee on that differing part works out at 0.60%.
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