ETF Decision Dashboard

Category performance

Median 3-year and 5-year returns by category, for categories with at least five qualifying funds.

Snapshot data captured from Yahoo Finance via yfinance, roughly 14 months old. Open any fund for live prices.

Median 3Y Median 5Y
CategoryFundsAssetsMedian 3YMedian 5Y
Digital Assets30$119.1B28.0%21.2%
Large Growth79$995.4B19.5%16.3%
Energy Limited Partnership11$19.6B17.4%24.7%
Industrials24$52.6B16.7%18.4%
Communications11$27.6B16.7%12.2%
Equity Precious Metals12$25.9B16.6%8.4%
Technology72$289.8B16.1%13.9%
Financial26$90.2B15.8%19.1%
Trading--Leveraged Equity5$25.4B14.7%26.6%
Consumer Cyclical17$34.1B14.4%13.5%
Large Blend185$5.12T14.4%15.6%
Global Large-Stock Blend30$109.2B13.2%13.9%
Europe Stock19$59.6B13.1%14.0%
Japan Stock13$34.0B13.0%9.0%
India Equity10$16.6B12.1%19.2%
Global Large-Stock Growth9$7.1B11.7%10.4%
Foreign Large Value42$83.7B11.6%13.8%
Foreign Large Blend79$1.20T11.2%12.0%
Mid-Cap Growth27$72.1B10.9%11.4%
Defined Outcome179$57.3B10.4%9.2%

Medians, not means: category averages are easily distorted by a handful of outliers. Leveraged and inverse funds and funds under $50M in assets are excluded throughout.