Key Highlights

  • The fund's July 31, 2026 fact sheet shows net Assets of USD 1,337.40 million distributed across thirty-one holdings.
  • Total expense ratio stands at 0.50%, with the fund posting a 25.16% net asset value gain year to date through July 31, 2026, alongside a 10.03% one-year net asset value return over the same span.
  • The three top positions as of the July 31, 2026 fact sheet were Okta Inc (8.17%), Fortinet Inc (8.15%), and Palo Alto Networks Inc (7.85%), jointly making up roughly a quarter of the fund.
  • On September 9, 2026, shares finished the day at USD 40.87, falling within a fifty-two week range of USD 23.15 to USD 44.55.

What the Fund Sets Out to Do

The Global X Cybersecurity ETF (NASDAQ:BUG) seeks to mirror the price and Yield performance of the Indxx Cybersecurity Index. This index is built from global firms poised to benefit from growing cybersecurity technology adoption.

The fund does not limit itself to one sector or one country. Instead, it follows what its issuer calls an unconstrained approach, reaching across traditional sector and geographic lines to capture companies operating in network security, endpoint protection, identity and access management, and cloud security.

Operations began on October 25, 2019. By the July 31, 2026 fact sheet, the fund held thirty-one positions in total, making it a fairly concentrated, theme-driven Equity portfolio rather than a broad technology fund.

Top Holdings

According to the top-ten breakdown in the July 31, 2026 fact sheet, the leading positions were:

  • Okta Inc: 8.17%
  • Fortinet Inc: 8.15%
  • Palo Alto Networks Inc: 7.85%
  • CrowdStrike Holdings Inc Class A: 7.27%
  • Qualys Inc: 5.30%
  • Tenable Holdings Inc: 4.97%
  • Zscaler Inc: 4.91%
  • Varonis Systems Inc: 4.83%
  • Akamai Technologies Inc: 4.75%
  • SailPoint Inc: 4.67%

Together, these ten holdings make up around 60% of the fund.

Sector and Geographic Breakdown

By sector, the fund allocates:

  • Software and Services: 97.90%
  • Technology Hardware and Equipment: 1.70%
  • Materials: 0.40%

By geography, the portfolio leans heavily toward the United States:

  • United States: 88.22%
  • Israel: 5.32%
  • Japan: 4.78%
  • United Kingdom: 1.05%
  • South Korea: 0.62%

This spread mirrors the globally distributed but U.S.-centered nature of the cybersecurity software industry the index tracks.

Fees and Income

The fund's total expense ratio comes to 0.50%, with income paid semi-annually. The fact sheet does not disclose a distribution or thirty-day SEC yield figure. More recent market data points to a trailing Dividend Yield of roughly 0.03%, typical for a growth-oriented equity fund with modest income distributions.

Performance Snapshot

On a net asset value basis, as of July 31, 2026, the fact sheet records:

  • Year-to-date return: 25.16%
  • One-year return: 10.03%
  • Three-year annualized return: 14.53%
  • Five-year annualized return: 5.48%
  • Annualized return since October 2019 inception: 15.03%

More recent market data put shares at USD 40.87 as of September 9, 2026, within a fifty-two week range of USD 23.15 to USD 44.55, signaling further gains in the weeks after the fact sheet's reporting date.

Where Things Stand

The fund gives investors a focused, index-driven way to gain exposure to publicly traded cybersecurity firms. It is anchored by U.S. software names such as Okta, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike, carries an expense ratio of 0.50%, and holds assets fluctuating between roughly USD 1.3 billion and USD 1.6 billion depending on when they are measured.

The fund has posted solid year-to-date gains through mid-2026. Even so, its five-year annualized net asset value return of 5.48% points to the extended stretches of Volatility that cybersecurity stocks, like other thematic technology segments, have faced since the fund launched in 2019.

Whether the fund's recent momentum holds will likely depend on whether enterprise and government cybersecurity spending keeps growing fast enough to justify current valuations among its top holdings.