Key stats
About ProShares Ultra Nasdaq Biotechnology
Home page
Inception date
Apr 7, 2010
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Replication method
Synthetic
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Ordinary income
Primary advisor
ProShare Advisors LLC
Distributor
SEI Investments Distribution Co.
BIB, having been around since 2010, is a leveraged play on the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index (which is also tracked in unlevered form by iShares' IBB), and is heavily focused on NASDAQs biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms with a large-cap bias. The fund gains its 2x leveraged exposure to the index through several financial instruments (i.e. equity securities, derivatives and money-market instruments), and rebalances its exposure daily. Like all geared funds that rebalance daily, BIB is meant for short-term trading since compounding effects over the long-term could create vast differences from expected returnsfor good or for ill.
Classification
Returns
| 1 month | 3 months | Year to date | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price performance | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| NAV total return | — | — | — | — | — | — |
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Health Technology
Government
Cash
Stocks73.49%
Health Technology71.58%
Commercial Services0.90%
Technology Services0.60%
Health Services0.39%
Process Industries0.02%
Bonds, Cash & Other26.51%
Government16.19%
Cash10.32%
Miscellaneous0.00%
Stock breakdown by region
North America87.65%
Europe11.99%
Asia0.31%
Oceania0.04%
Latin America0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history