SENT — AdvisorShares Alpha DNA Equity Sentiment ETF
Data updated: 2023-11-27
SENT — AdvisorShares Alpha DNA Equity Sentiment ETF. United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity · $11.57M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
SENT Fund Overview
SENT — AdvisorShares Alpha DNA Equity Sentiment ETF is a US ETF managed by AdvisorShares Trust, categorised as United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US ETF
- Manager: AdvisorShares Trust
- Category: United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $11.57M
- 1-year return: 3.0%
- Ticker: SENT
- SEC CIK: 0001408970
- SEC series ID: S000070646
- Share class ID: C000224385
SENT Investment Objective and Strategy
AdvisorShares Alpha DNA Equity Sentiment ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by AdvisorShares Trust.
Investment objective
The AdvisorShares Alpha DNA Equity Sentiment ETF (the Fund) seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund is an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in U.S. exchange listed equity securities, primarily consisting of common stock of large-, mid-, and small-capitalization U.S. companies, while hedging overall market exposure. The Fund typically holds positions in each of these three market capitalizations and the allocation of assets to each individual stock within each market capitalization is typically equal weighted. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities. Alpha DNA Investment Management LLC (the Sub-Advisor) uses its proprietary machine learning algorithms to select the individual stocks for the Funds portfolio. The Sub-Advisor deploys a systematic quantitative research platform that combines companies alternate digital performance data (data about the online interactions between customers and the digital properties of a company) with financial fundamentals (such as revenue and earnings per share) to algorithmically identify companies that it determines are likely to surprise the market with breakout performance in upcoming quarters.
After compiling the alternate digital performance data for any individual company or sector into a digital footprint, the Sub-Advisor seeks to identify companies that are outperforming in their industry in order to leverage trading opportunities that may arise when analyst sentiment or expectation is lower for these companies than the expectation projected by the Sub-Advisors algorithms. The Funds investments focus on growth-oriented market sectors. The Fund also systematically purchases and sells exchange-traded put options on broad market indices that have traditionally had a high correlation to the stock allocation employed in the portfolio. The Funds options overlay strategy is intended to provide the Fund with downside protection. A put option seeks to protect the Fund against a decline in price.
A put option gives the purchaser of the option, in exchange for the premium paid, the right to sell the underlying asset at a specified price (strike price) at a specified date (expiration date). In contrast, the seller of a put option, in exchange for the premium received, is obligated to sell the underlying asset at the strike price on the expiration date. In the event the underlying asset declines in value, the value of a put option will generally increase. In the event the underlying asset appreciates in value, the value of a put option will generally decrease. The options utilized by the Fund may be based on broad U.S. market indices, such as the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 (U.S. Indices), or on ETFs that replicate such indices. The combination of a diversified portfolio of equity securities and the downside protection from index-based put options is intended to provide the Fund with a portion of the returns associated with equity market investments while potentially exposing investors to less risk than traditional long-only equity strategies.
Specifically, the Fund seeks to provide a competitive risk adjusted return over a full market cycle (defined as three to five years) relative to the Russell 3000 Index with lower volatility than traditional long-only equity strategies. The Funds strategy may frequently involve buying and selling securities, which may lead to relatively high portfolio turnover.
SENT Performance
Total returns for SENT (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 3.0% |
| 3 years (annualised) | -4.8% |
SENT Risk Information
Risk metrics for SENT, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 17.2%
SENT Costs and Fees
SENT costs about $101 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.01%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.01%
- Portfolio turnover: 537%
- Brokerage commissions: 58.30 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
SENT Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2023-09, AdvisorShares Alpha DNA Equity Sentiment ETF had net inflows of $41.80M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2023-09 | $3.14M |
| 2023-08 | $229.79K |
| 2023-07 | $864.06K |
| 2023-06 | $22.47M |
| 2023-05 | $2.70M |
| 2023-04 | $1.70M |
SENT Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in AdvisorShares Alpha DNA Equity Sentiment ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
SENT Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official AdvisorShares Alpha DNA Equity Sentiment ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-10-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-10-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-01-11
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-11-27
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-08-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2023-05-22
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2023-09-08
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-09-08
Related Funds
Other United States Small Cap Blend / Core Equity funds tracked on ABC INVEST:
Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.