{"url":"https://etfiq.com/research/quarterly/","section":"research","title":"ETFIQ Quarterly: numbers fixed at a quarter's close | ETFIQ","description":"Closed-quarter studies of exchange-traded funds from ETFIQ, each published with the data file every number in it was computed from.","as_of":"Oct 27, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"ETFIQ","item":"https://etfiq.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ETFIQ Research","item":"https://etfiq.com/research/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"ETFIQ Quarterly","item":"https://etfiq.com/research/quarterly/"}]},{"@type":"WebPage","name":"ETFIQ Quarterly: numbers fixed at a quarter's close","description":"Closed-quarter studies of exchange-traded funds from ETFIQ, each published with the data file every number in it was computed from.","url":"https://etfiq.com/research/quarterly/","dateModified":"2026-10-27","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":2612,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / ETFIQ Research / ETFIQ Quarterly \n \n One closed quarter at a time. These numbers do not change once published.\n ETFIQ Quarterly\n Most numbers on this site run to yesterday. That serves a reader deciding today, but nobody can cite a number that moves. These are closed quarters: the same number next year as this week, with the file each came from published beside it.\n 2026-Q3 Leveraged ETFs against their own promise 492 of the 599 leveraged and inverse ETFs that traded the whole of the third quarter of 2026 returned less than their own stated multiple implied, by a median of 2.25 percentage points. 2026-Q2 How much of a theme was already the index Across the 227 thematic ETFs that traded the whole of the second quarter of 2026 and filed a book inside it, the median had 32.5 percent of its money in companies already in the S&P 500, ranging from 0.0 percent at the tenth fund to 72.8 at the ninetieth, at a median fee of 0.56 percent that barely moves across that range. 2026-Q2 Leveraged ETFs against their own promise 289 of the 349 leveraged and inverse ETFs that traded the whole of the second quarter of 2026 returned less than their own stated multiple implied, by a median of 2.80 percentage points. 2026-Q2 What option-income ETFs paid and made The median of the 275 option-income ETFs that traded the whole of the second quarter of 2026 paid out 4.66 percent of its own price and returned 6.55 percent in total, and 116 of them paid more cash than they made. 2026-Q2 Spot crypto ETPs against the coin they hold The median of the 41 US listed spot crypto ETPs that traded the whole of the second quarter of 2026 kept 99.4 percent of what its own coin did over the same days, and 15 of them finished behind the coin they hold. 2026-Q2 What a buffer ETF delivers mid-period Across the 114 buffer ETFs whose outcome period ran through the whole of the second quarter of 2026, the reference rose in every case and the median fund delivered 48.5 percent of that rise, with the buffer engaged on none of them. Where to next\n ETFIQ Research Open data Methodology \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, ETFIQ Quarterly, data as of Oct 27, 2026. https://etfiq.com/research/quarterly/ Free to use with attribution for data ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, ETFIQ Quarterly, data as of Oct 27, 2026. https://etfiq.com/research/quarterly/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 27, 2026). ETFIQ Quarterly. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/research/quarterly/ Markdown [ETFIQ Quarterly (ETFIQ, Oct 27, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/research/quarterly/)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Data ETFIQ computes is free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). Issuer data stays under its owner's terms.","citation":"ETFIQ, ETFIQ Quarterly, data as of Oct 27, 2026. https://etfiq.com/research/quarterly/"}