Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta® Emerging Markets Equity ETF
GEM NYSE Arca
Each ActiveBeta® ETF follows a performance-seeking methodology that aims to acquire stocks based on four well-established attributes of performance: good value, strong momentum, high quality and low volatility.
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- Fund size
- 1.76B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.45% per year
- Dividend yield
- 0.00% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 24.5% Above Average
- Beta
- 0.80 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 39.5353.81
How GEM has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 12Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, GEM returned +26.4% with dividends reinvested — dividends added 0.0 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±24% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −13.5% on Mar 30, 2026 — 33 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 30% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.80 means GEM has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average51.21 −1.4%
- 26-day average51.28 −1.5%
- 50-day average51.06 −1.1%
- 200-day average47.94 +5.3%
The price is above 1 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Emerging Markets · Factors — tracking the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta Emerging Markets Equity Index.
- Assets under management1.76BUSD
- Expense ratio0.45%per year
- Holdings426
- Risk score4.6Medium
Launched September 2015. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
Where GEM shows up
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About Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta® Emerging Markets Equity ETF
Each ActiveBeta® ETF follows a performance-seeking methodology that aims to acquire stocks based on four well-established attributes of performance: good value, strong momentum, high quality and low volatility.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 426 holdings
- Ticker
- GEM
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US3814302069
- CUSIP
- 381430206
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Emerging Markets
- Industry
- Factors
- Benchmark
- Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta Emerging Markets Equity Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.