SURE - AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF

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Invest in firms reducing their equity float through buyback programs and insider buying

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Overall Morningstar Rating. Mid-Cap Blend. Based on risk-adjusted return out of 368 funds in the Mid-Cap Blend category as of December 31st, 2025.

Symbol Exchange Inception Date CUSIP NAV Options Available
SURE NYSE Arca 10/4/2011 00768Y818 SURE.NV Yes
About the ETF

Following a core investment philosophy that corporate insiders know their companies the best, the AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF (SURE) seeks to invest in the equities of companies actively trying to reduce their public equity float through well-executed stock buyback programs and corporate insider buying. Not only do buybacks and insider buying demonstrate that executives may see relative value in the firm’s stock, they also could create favorable shareholder market conditions through the reduction of publicly available shares (float shrink). SURE selects holdings using an active, quantitative, multi-factor model to identify companies shrinking float, lowering leverage, growing free cash flow, and providing dividends. SURE’s holdings are equal-weighted and reconstituted/rebalanced monthly.

What Is Float Shrink?

Public equity float refers to the portion of a company’s outstanding shares that is in the hands of public investors – as opposed to company officers, directors, or stockholders that hold controlling interests – and are available for trading in the open market. The float is calculated by subtracting restricted shares from outstanding shares. Float shrink occurs when there is a reduction of publicly available shares.

Buybacks – action taken by a corporation to repurchase its own shares from the marketplace – are the most common cause of float shrink today and one of two ways a company can distribute profits to shareholders. Dividend payments are the second form. While firms may implement both, since 1997, share buybacks have surpassed cash dividends to become the dominant form of corporate payout in the U.S. Not only do buybacks avoid a stock price penalty if a firm cuts or ends a program, like dividends are subject to, but also provide a positive market impact by improving earnings and cash flow per share.

Insider buying – the purchase of shares in a corporation by a board member, officer, or executive within that company (i.e., corporate insider) – is another way that float shrink occurs. It may be a strong indicator that insiders are becoming more optimistic about the company’s future. Buying by corporate insiders is legal, highly regulated, publicly disclosed, and different from “insider trading” – the illegal act of buying or selling stock by someone who has privileged, non-public information about a company.

 

Why Invest?
  • Investing with Corporate Insiders – Top firm executives know more about the company’s fundamentals than the investing public. These insiders can influence their company’s share price by timing equity issuance and repurchase to the firm’s advantage. A well-implemented buyback program reduces publicly available shares and can increase the stock’s price. Additionally, corporate insider buying can be a bullish signal that the stock is underpriced by the market.
  • Conscientious Float Shrink – Investing solely in stock buybacks can be problematic. SURE employs a comprehensive, multi-factor strategy to assess if a firm is reducing their float in a well-planned manner, analyzing free cash flow, profitability, leverage reduction, dividend yield, net buybacks and insider buying.
  • Disciplined Growth – A quantitative, actively managed, equal weight investment strategy focused on long-term growth.

 

Key Attributes
  • Float Shrink – Corporate insiders have better information than the investing public and know their companies the best. Stock buyback programs and insider buying not only show that corporate insiders see relative value in investing in their own equity securities, but also create favorable market conditions for shareholders by reducing the number of publicly traded shares and improving earnings and cash flow per share.
  • Extensive Stock Screening – SURE’s portfolio manager screens approximately 3,000 companies and looks for the following characteristics when selecting stocks: shareholder-friendliness (measured by float shrink and dividend yield), profitability (measured by free cash flow), solid balance sheet (measured by outstanding leverage).
  • Equal Weight Investing – In a market-cap weighted portfolio, a small number of the largest companies receive the heaviest allocations and overvalued components are overweighted relative to undervalued components. By contrast, with an equal weight strategy, the bias to the largest companies is removed; a buy low, sell high discipline is regularly followed with periodic rebalancing; and reallocation to undervalued stocks may provide the opportunity to capture long-term equity performance.
  • Actively Managed ETF Structure – SURE is different from other buyback-focused investments that follow passive, market-cap weighted indexes and only reconstitute annually. SURE re-evaluates its investable universe and existing holdings monthly – adding or removing stocks and returning each security to an equal-weight allocation – allowing SURE to react more quickly to changes in buyback programs, acquisition announcements, etc. An ETF structure allows for better tax efficiency than mutual funds or than investing in the underlying stocks directly.
Where Can SURE Fit in a Traditional Portfolio?

SURE can serve as a thematic investment or a complement to a dividend investing or market-cap weighted core strategy.

About the Portfolio Strategist

Minyi Chen, Portfolio Strategist

Minyi Chen, CFA is the founder and CEO of Qubed Capital, a registered investment advisor founded in 2015 and based in Oakland, California. For over a decade, Mr. Chen has been providing quantitative financial research and analysis along with proprietary investment models to both retail and institutional investors. In the past, Mr. Chen has served as a portfolio manager of the AdvisorShares TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF (ticker: TTFS) and the TrimTabs International Free-Cash-Flow ETF (ticker: FCFI).

 

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Fund

Price History

Fund Data

1/6/2026
NAV $131.51
Change $1.40
Shares Outstanding 380,000
Assets Under Management $49,974,754.37

 

 

 

 

Market Data

1/6/2026
Closing Price $131.53
Close Change $1.61
Volume 28

Regulatory Data

1/6/2026
Premium Discount $-0.02
30-Day Median bid-ask Spread 0.340953
Premium/Discount Historical Data | NAV Historical Data | Daily Premium/Discount Historical Data

Shares are bought and sold at market price (closing price) not NAV and are not individually redeemed from the Fund. Market price returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00 pm Eastern Time (when NAV is normally determined), and do not represent the return you would receive if you traded at other times.

FUND

Characteristics

As of 11/30/2025

Source: Morningstar & AdvisorShares

FUND

Performance

As of 12/31/2025

 

  NAV Market Price Return Russell 3000 Index
1 Month 2.51 2.60 -0.02
3 Months 3.58 3.92 2.40
YTD 10.41 10.45 17.15
1 Year 10.41 10.45 17.15
3 Years 15.19 15.21 22.25
5 Years 10.77 10.85 13.15
10 Years 10.13 10.14 14.29
Since Inception (10/04/2011, Annualized) 12.81 12.82 15.24

As of 12/31/2025

  NAV Market Price Return Russell 3000 Index
1 Month 2.51 2.60 -0.02
3 Months 3.58 3.92 2.40
YTD 10.41 10.45 17.15
1 Year 10.41 10.45 17.15
3 Years 15.19 15.21 22.25
5 Years 10.77 10.85 13.15
10 Years 10.13 10.14 14.29
Since Inception (10/04/2011, Annualized) 12.81 12.82 15.24

As of 12/31/2025

  NAV Market Price Return Russell 3000 Index
1 Month 2.51 2.60 -0.02
3 Months 3.58 3.92 2.40
YTD 10.41 10.45 17.15
1 Year 10.41 10.45 17.15
3 Year 15.19 15.21 22.25
Since 9/1/2022, Annualized 13.63 13.74 18.80

Performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. All Fund data and performance data quoted is believed to be accurate, and unless otherwise stated, is sourced from the Fund administrator, the Advisor’s or Sub-Advisor’s proprietary data, and Morningstar. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. Returns less than one year are not annualized.

*On September 1, 2022, the AdvisorShares DoubleLine Value Equity ETF (the “Predecessor Fund”) was renamed the AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF. The Predecessor Fund had different portfolio managers and investment strategy than the AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF. Performance prior to September 1, 2022 reflects the Fund’s performance prior to the change in manager and investment strategy and may not be indicative of the Fund’s performance under the new manager and revised investment strategy. Performance since September 1, 2022 reflects actual  AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF performance.

Performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. All Fund data and performance data quoted is believed to be accurate, and unless otherwise stated, is sourced from the Fund administrator, the Advisor’s or Sub-Advisor’s proprietary data, and Morningstar. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. Returns less than one year are not annualized. One cannot invest directly in an index. The Russell 1000 Index represents the top 1000 companies by market capitalization in the United States. The index is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index. The Russell 3000 Index is broad market, capitalization-weighted index comprised of the largest 3,000 U.S. companies and represents 98% of the investable U.S. equity market. 

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Fund

Holdings

As of

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Date Account Symbol Stock Ticker Security ID Security Description Shares Share Price Market Value Portfolio Weight Asset Group
01/06/2026 SURE LRCX 512807306 LAM RESEARCH CORP 2,763 206.96 571,830.48 1.14% S
AMAT 038222105 APPLIED MATERIALS INC 1,862 296.01 551,170.62 1.10% S
ON 682189105 ON SEMICONDUCTOR 8,900 61.76 549,664.00 1.10% S
KLAC 482480100 KLA CORP 386 1,395.00 538,470.00 1.08% S
TTC 891092108 TORO CO 6,318 83.52 527,679.36 1.06% S
VLO 91913Y100 VALERO ENERGY CORP 2,960 178.27 527,679.20 1.06% S
EBS 29089Q105 EMERGENT BIOSOLUTIONS INC 39,900 13.15 524,685.00 1.05% S
CAT 149123101 CATERPILLAR INC 841 623.09 524,018.69 1.05% S
IRDM 46269C102 IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC 28,296 18.48 522,910.08 1.05% S
MPWR 609839105 MONOLITHIC POWER SYSTEMS INC 520 1,005.38 522,797.60 1.05% S
LMT 539830109 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP 1,000 522.04 522,040.00 1.04% S
ELV 036752103 ELEVANCE HEALTH INC 1,400 371.37 519,918.00 1.04% S
CTS 126501105 CTS CORP 11,400 45.52 518,928.00 1.04% S
SEIC 784117103 SEI INVESTMENTS COMPANY 5,871 88.01 516,706.71 1.03% S
PH 701094104 PARKER HANNIFIN CORP 556 928.76 516,390.56 1.03% S
KBR 48242W106 KBR INC 12,000 43.00 516,000.00 1.03% S
AIN 012348108 ALBANY INTL CORP-CL A 9,400 54.80 515,120.00 1.03% S
TXT 883203101 TEXTRON INC 5,700 90.07 513,399.00 1.03% S
ODFL 679580100 OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE 3,038 168.88 513,057.44 1.03% S
URI 911363109 UNITED RENTALS INC 574 892.10 512,065.40 1.02% S
WH 98311A105 WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS INC 6,406 79.90 511,839.40 1.02% S
MUSA 626755102 MURPHY USA INC 1,201 426.02 511,650.02 1.02% S
EXPD 302130109 EXPEDITORS INTL WASH INC 3,240 157.50 510,300.00 1.02% S
FTI G87110105 TECHNIPFMC PLC 10,551 48.34 510,035.34 1.02% FS
SYF 87165B103 SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL 5,760 88.47 509,587.20 1.02% S
QCOM 747525103 QUALCOMM INC 2,789 182.45 508,853.05 1.02% S
DHR 235851102 DANAHER CORP 2,150 236.59 508,668.50 1.02% S
EXPE 30212P303 EXPEDIA GROUP INC 1,700 299.21 508,657.00 1.02% S
KMX 143130102 CARMAX INC 12,400 40.93 507,532.00 1.02% S
GNTX 371901109 GENTEX CORP 20,686 24.48 506,393.28 1.01% S
DXCM 252131107 DEXCOM INC 7,240 69.89 506,003.60 1.01% S
VAL G9460G101 VALARIS LTD 9,540 53.04 506,001.60 1.01% FS
VNT 928881101 VONTIER CORP 13,155 38.46 505,941.30 1.01% S
CSW 126402106 CSW INDUSTRIALS INC 1,600 315.26 504,416.00 1.01% S
CSL 142339100 CARLISLE COS INC 1,500 336.05 504,075.00 1.01% S
COP 20825C104 CONOCOPHILLIPS 5,185 97.11 503,515.35 1.01% S
FLS 34354P105 FLOWSERVE CORP 6,900 72.80 502,320.00 1.01% S
HON 438516106 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC 2,450 204.94 502,103.00 1.00% S
CMG 169656105 CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC 13,000 38.62 502,060.00 1.00% S
LZ 52466B103 LEGALZOOMCOM INC 48,200 10.40 501,280.00 1.00% S
DOX G02602103 AMDOCS LTD 6,116 81.92 501,022.72 1.00% FS
POOL 73278L105 POOL CORP 2,093 239.38 501,022.34 1.00% S
MCO 615369105 MOODY'S CORP 940 532.90 500,926.00 1.00% S
XOM 30231G102 EXXON MOBIL CORP 4,138 121.05 500,904.90 1.00% S
KFRC 493732101 KFORCE INC 15,360 32.59 500,582.40 1.00% S
ONON H5919C104 ON HOLDING AG-CLASS A 10,200 49.04 500,208.00 1.00% FS
TPR 876030107 TAPESTRY INC 3,750 133.18 499,425.00 1.00% S
WFC 949746101 WELLS FARGO & CO 5,181 96.39 499,396.59 1.00% S
CROX 227046109 CROCS INC 5,600 89.08 498,848.00 1.00% S
JPM 46625H100 JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 1,490 334.61 498,568.90 1.00% S
ALSN 01973R101 ALLISON TRANSMISSION HOLDING 4,875 101.58 495,202.50 0.99% S
OPCH 68404L201 OPTION CARE HEALTH INC 15,100 32.79 495,129.00 0.99% S
HCA 40412C101 HCA HEALTHCARE INC 1,022 483.60 494,239.20 0.99% S
MTCH 57667L107 MATCH GROUP INC 15,100 32.73 494,223.00 0.99% S
ITW 452308109 ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS 1,941 254.15 493,305.15 0.99% S
MA 57636Q104 MASTERCARD INC - A 850 580.34 493,289.00 0.99% S
ECPG 292554102 ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC 8,750 56.05 490,437.50 0.98% S
AOS 831865209 SMITH (A.O.) CORP 7,138 68.65 490,023.70 0.98% S
ABNB 009066101 AIRBNB INC-CLASS A 3,550 138.02 489,971.00 0.98% S
DVA 23918K108 DAVITA INC 4,270 114.72 489,854.40 0.98% S
HRMY 413197104 HARMONY BIOSCIENCES HOLDINGS 13,300 36.75 488,775.00 0.98% S
FCNCA 31946M103 FIRST CITIZENS BCSHS -CL A 223 2,190.12 488,396.76 0.98% S
MSCI 55354G100 MSCI INC 830 586.96 487,176.80 0.97% S
STGW 85256A109 STAGWELL INC 97,700 4.98 486,546.00 0.97% S
NVDA 67066G104 NVIDIA CORP 2,598 187.24 486,449.52 0.97% S
HLT 43300A203 HILTON WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS IN 1,658 293.28 486,258.24 0.97% S
SPGI 78409V104 S&P GLOBAL INC 900 539.65 485,685.00 0.97% S
YUM 988498101 YUM! BRANDS INC 3,204 151.41 485,117.64 0.97% S
TOL 889478103 TOLL BROTHERS INC 3,560 136.09 484,480.40 0.97% S
GOOG 02079K107 ALPHABET INC-CL C 1,536 314.55 483,148.80 0.97% S
DHI 23331A109 DR HORTON INC 3,336 144.50 482,052.00 0.96% S
TTEK 88162G103 TETRA TECH INC 13,856 34.77 481,773.12 0.96% S
PHM 745867101 PULTEGROUP INC 3,972 121.15 481,207.80 0.96% S
CRM 79466L302 SALESFORCE INC 1,830 262.90 481,107.00 0.96% S
ORLY 67103H107 O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE INC 5,300 90.39 479,067.00 0.96% S
MORN 617700109 MORNINGSTAR INC 2,220 215.63 478,698.60 0.96% S
BR 11133T103 BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIO 2,152 221.70 477,098.40 0.95% S
MTG 552848103 MGIC INVESTMENT CORP 16,456 28.98 476,894.88 0.95% S
UHS 913903100 UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES-B 2,150 221.74 476,741.00 0.95% S
GRND 39854F101 GRINDR INC 36,200 13.16 476,392.00 0.95% S
BKNG 09857L108 BOOKING HOLDINGS INC 89 5,348.39 476,006.71 0.95% S
CHDN 171484108 CHURCHILL DOWNS INC 4,180 113.27 473,468.60 0.95% S
DVN 25179M103 DEVON ENERGY CORP 13,181 35.89 473,066.09 0.95% S
DBX 26210C104 DROPBOX INC-CLASS A 17,500 26.99 472,325.00 0.95% S
CDNS 127387108 CADENCE DESIGN SYS INC 1,500 314.64 471,960.00 0.94% S
MCK 58155Q103 MCKESSON CORP 570 826.51 471,110.70 0.94% S
MSFT 594918104 MICROSOFT CORP 984 478.51 470,853.84 0.94% S
FTNT 34959E109 FORTINET INC 6,000 78.44 470,640.00 0.94% S
ADBE 00724F101 ADOBE INC 1,400 335.99 470,386.00 0.94% S
ESNT G3198U102 ESSENT GROUP LTD 7,316 64.16 469,394.56 0.94% FS
VRSK 92345Y106 VERISK ANALYTICS INC 2,115 221.23 467,901.45 0.94% S
DPZ 25754A201 DOMINO'S PIZZA INC 1,150 406.50 467,475.00 0.94% S
MCD 580135101 MCDONALD'S CORP 1,540 302.77 466,265.80 0.93% S
HIG 416515104 HARTFORD INSURANCE GROUP INC 3,397 136.93 465,151.21 0.93% S
RNR G7496G103 RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD 1,709 272.00 464,848.00 0.93% FS
AAPL 037833100 APPLE INC 1,763 262.36 462,540.68 0.93% S
TKO 87256C101 TKO GROUP HOLDINGS INC 2,250 202.81 456,322.50 0.91% S
GDDY 380237107 GODADDY INC - CLASS A 3,800 119.82 455,316.00 0.91% S
ADSK 052769106 AUTODESK INC 1,550 293.17 454,413.50 0.91% S
MCRI 609027107 MONARCH CASINO & RESORT INC 4,768 94.03 448,335.04 0.90% S
X9USDBLYT BLACKROCK TREASURY TRUST INSTL 62 214,827.15 1.00 214,827.15 0.43% MM
CASH 198,010.69 100.00 198,010.69 0.40% CA
Holdings and allocations are subject to risks and to change. 

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Fees & Expenses

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fee   0.70%
Other Expenses   0.30%
Gross Expense Ratio   1.00%
Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement*   -0.10%
Net Expense Ratio   0.90%

 

Expense Cap Limitation*   0.90%

*The Advisor has contractually agreed to keep net expenses from exceeding 0.90% of the Fund’s average daily net assets for at least one year from the date of the prospectus. For more information, please read the full prospectus.

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Fund Distributions

  • Before investing you should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. This and other information is in the prospectus, a copy of which may be obtained by visiting the Fund’s website at www.AdvisorShares.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest. Foreside Fund Services, LLC, Distributor. 
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  • The Fund’s investment focus follows a core philosophy that corporate insiders know their companies best.  The Advisor believes that insider buying and stock buyback programs not only show that corporate insiders see relative value in investing in their own company’s equity securities, but also create favorable market conditions by reducing public equity float (i.e., the share supply available to investors on the public secondary market).  The Advisor allocates the Fund’s portfolio using research from a disciplined and quantitative proprietary model, the U.S. Insiders Edge Model, developed by Qubed Capital, LLC. In utilizing the model, the Advisor seeks to remove emotion from day-to-day decision-making by following a systematic process.
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  • The Fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by primarily investing in a portfolio of U.S. traded companies selected from a universe of the largest 3,000 U.S. equity securities based on market capitalization. When models and data prove to be incorrect or incomplete, any decisions made in reliance thereon expose the Fund to potential risks. In addition, the use of predictive models has inherent risk.
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  • Definitions   
    A buyback occurs when a company repurchases its own shares from the marketplace, reducing the number of shares outstanding.
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  • Equity float is the portion of a company’s outstanding shares that is in the hands of public investors, as opposed to company officers, directors, or stockholders that hold controlling interests that have trading restrictions.
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  • Float shrink is a reduction in the number of a company’s shares available for trading.
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  • Free cash flow represents the cash a company generates after accounting for cash outflows to support operations and maintain its capital assets. It is a measure of profitability and represents the cash available for the company to repay creditors and pay out dividends and interest to investors.
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  • An insider is an officer, director, executive, entity, or individual that owns more than 10% of a publicly traded company’s shares.
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  • Insider buying is the legal purchase of shares in a firm by a corporate insider that is not based on non-public, material information and follows the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and reporting requirements. 
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  • Insider trading is the illegal trading a publicly traded company’s security by anyone who has non-public, material information about that security before the information becomes public.

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SURE received four stars for the 3-year rating among 368 funds, four stars for the 5-year rating among 338, three stars for the 10-year rating among 263 funds, and four stars for the overall rating among 368 funds in Morningstar’s Mid-Cap Blend category as of December 31st, 2025.