Macquarie Tax-Free USA Short Term ETF
STAX NYSE Arca
STAX actively invests in municipal securities exempt from federal income taxes. It will hold short-term, investment grade and high yield Muni bonds issued in the US with effective maturity of between 1 and 5 years.
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- Dividend yield
- 2.92% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 1.8% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.02 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 24.5125.21
How STAX has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, STAX returned +4.4% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +3.0 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 ±2% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −2.8% on Sep 29, 2026 — 214 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.02 means STAX 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
Downtrend- 12-day average24.96 +0.5%
- 26-day average24.90 +0.7%
- 50-day average24.90 +0.7%
- 200-day average24.93 +0.6%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is below the 200-day, a sign of a falling longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OverboughtRSI 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.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 29 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.73
- Last paid
- Oct 30, 2026
Last 12 months
0.73 USD / shareWhere STAX shows up
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About Macquarie Tax-Free USA Short Term ETF
STAX actively invests in municipal securities exempt from federal income taxes. It will hold short-term, investment grade and high yield Muni bonds issued in the US with effective maturity of between 1 and 5 years.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- STAX
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US5559273009
- CUSIP
- 555927300
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Municipals
- Industry
- Short Term
- Benchmark
- Bloomberg Municipal Short (1-5 Year) Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Nov 2, 2026
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