# ETF categories

On 2026-10-14, TickerInside placed the 5,797 US ETFs with a file in 103 categories of its own, each set from the fund's latest file: 3,514 by what they hold, 1,219 by their contracts, 131 by a trust's own filing, 651 by their name, where the file cannot show the strategy or asset and 282 by the objective their prospectus states, until their first holdings file.

Canonical page: https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/
Computed 2026-10-14 from each ETF's latest file. Licence: CC BY 4.0, attribution to TickerInside. Measurements, not investment advice.

An ETF's category is computed every night from its own latest file, never read from a data vendor, and each ETF's file carries the rule that placed it with the figures it measured.

## US stocks

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [US Large Growth](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/us-large-growth/) | us-large-growth | 219 | 75% or more of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit among the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value above what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [US Large Blend](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/us-large-blend/) | us-large-blend | 448 | 75% or more of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit among the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; the share growth index funds hold of their value is within 10 points of what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [US Large Value](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/us-large-value/) | us-large-value | 170 | 75% or more of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit among the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value below what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [US Mid-Cap Growth](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/us-mid-growth/) | us-mid-growth | 71 | 75% or more of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit between 78% and 94% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value above what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [US Mid-Cap Blend](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/us-mid-blend/) | us-mid-blend | 83 | 75% or more of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit between 78% and 94% of their market's value; the share growth index funds hold of their value is within 10 points of what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [US Mid-Cap Value](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/us-mid-value/) | us-mid-value | 82 | 75% or more of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit between 78% and 94% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value below what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [US Small-Cap Growth](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/us-small-growth/) | us-small-growth | 44 | 75% or more of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit in the last 6% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value above what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [US Small-Cap Blend](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/us-small-blend/) | us-small-blend | 55 | 75% or more of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit in the last 6% of their market's value; the share growth index funds hold of their value is within 10 points of what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [US Small-Cap Value](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/us-small-value/) | us-small-value | 42 | 75% or more of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit in the last 6% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value below what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |

## International stocks

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [International Large Growth](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/international-large-growth/) | international-large-growth | 37 | 20% or less of its stocks are US companies and less than half are in emerging markets, with no country or region holding 75%; weighted by holding, its stocks sit among the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value above what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [International Large Blend](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/international-large-blend/) | international-large-blend | 142 | 20% or less of its stocks are US companies and less than half are in emerging markets, with no country or region holding 75%; weighted by holding, its stocks sit among the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; the share growth index funds hold of their value is within 10 points of what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [International Large Value](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/international-large-value/) | international-large-value | 47 | 20% or less of its stocks are US companies and less than half are in emerging markets, with no country or region holding 75%; weighted by holding, its stocks sit among the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value below what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [International Small-Mid Blend](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/international-small-mid-blend/) | international-small-mid-blend | 20 | 20% or less of its stocks are US companies and less than half are in emerging markets, with no country or region holding 75%; weighted by holding, its stocks sit past the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; the share growth index funds hold of their value is within 10 points of what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [International Small-Mid Value](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/international-small-mid-value/) | international-small-mid-value | 5 | 20% or less of its stocks are US companies and less than half are in emerging markets, with no country or region holding 75%; weighted by holding, its stocks sit past the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value below what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |

## Emerging market stocks

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Emerging Markets](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/emerging-markets/) | emerging-markets | 120 | Half or more of its stocks outside the US are in emerging markets, with no country or region holding 75%. |

## Global stocks

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Global Large Growth | global-large-growth | 31 | Between 20% and 75% of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit among the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value above what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [Global Large Blend](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/global-large-blend/) | global-large-blend | 70 | Between 20% and 75% of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit among the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; the share growth index funds hold of their value is within 10 points of what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [Global Large Value](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/global-large-value/) | global-large-value | 25 | Between 20% and 75% of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit among the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value; growth index funds hold 10 points or more of their value below what they hold of companies of the same sizes. |
| [Global Small-Mid](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/global-small-mid/) | global-small-mid | 20 | Between 20% and 75% of its stocks are US companies; weighted by holding, its stocks sit past the companies that make the first 78% of their market's value. |

## Country and region stocks

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Japan](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/japan/) | japan | 18 | 75% or more of its stocks with a known country are in Japan. |
| [China](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/china/) | china | 32 | 75% or more of its stocks with a known country are in China, Hong Kong and Macau. |
| [India](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/india/) | india | 18 | 75% or more of its stocks with a known country are in India. |
| [Europe](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/europe/) | europe | 56 | 75% or more of its stocks with a known country are in Europe, Turkey included. |
| [Asia Pacific ex Japan](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/asia-pacific-ex-japan/) | asia-pacific-ex-japan | 32 | 90% or more of its stocks with a known country are in Asia and the Pacific outside Japan. |
| [Asia Pacific](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/asia-pacific/) | asia-pacific | 5 | 90% or more of its stocks with a known country are in Asia and the Pacific, Japan included. |
| [Latin America](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/latin-america/) | latin-america | 15 | 75% or more of its stocks with a known country are in Latin America. |
| Canada | canada | 5 | 75% or more of its stocks with a known country are in Canada. |
| [Middle East and Africa](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/middle-east-africa/) | middle-east-africa | 9 | 75% or more of its stocks with a known country are in the Middle East and Africa. |

## Sector stocks

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Technology](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/technology/) | technology | 171 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are technology companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Health Care](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/health-care/) | health-care | 60 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are health care companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Financials](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/financials/) | financials | 54 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are financials companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Energy](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/energy/) | energy | 42 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are energy companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Industrials](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/industrials/) | industrials | 51 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are industrials companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Consumer Discretionary](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/consumer-discretionary/) | consumer-discretionary | 21 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are consumer discretionary companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Consumer Staples](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/consumer-staples/) | consumer-staples | 16 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are consumer staples companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Materials](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/materials/) | materials | 29 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are materials companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Utilities](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/utilities/) | utilities | 13 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are utilities companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Communication Services](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/communication-services/) | communication-services | 11 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are communication services companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Real Estate](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/real-estate/) | real-estate | 55 | 60% or more of its stocks whose sector is known are real estate companies, by the sector the site gives each company, and 45% or more of all its stocks; or its name names the sector and a sector is found for fewer than half of its stocks. |
| [Natural Resources](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/natural-resources/) | natural-resources | 33 | 60% or more of its stocks are energy and materials companies together, neither alone reaching 60% unless its name names a natural resource (uranium, lithium, timber, agriculture); or its name names one, no other sector holds 60%, and it holds fewer than 200 companies. |
| [Gold and Silver Miners](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/gold-silver-miners/) | gold-silver-miners | 19 | 60% or more of its stocks are companies the gold and silver miner index funds hold. |
| [Infrastructure](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/infrastructure/) | infrastructure | 29 | Its name says infrastructure, and utilities, industrials and energy companies are 70% or more of its stocks. |
| [Thematic](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/thematic/) | thematic | 105 | Its name names a theme (solar, clean energy, batteries, robotics, water, video games and others), or two sectors hold 80% or more of its stocks; either way in fewer than 200 companies, no one sector holding 60%. |

## Bonds

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Preferred Securities](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/preferred-securities/) | preferred-securities | 26 | Half or more of what it holds are preferred shares, or its name says preferred. |
| Treasury Bills | treasury-bills | 30 | US Treasury debt 70% or more, duration under 1 year. |
| Short-Term Treasury | treasury-short | 17 | US Treasury debt 70% or more, duration 1 to 3.5 years. |
| Intermediate Treasury | treasury-intermediate | 34 | US Treasury debt 70% or more, duration 3.5 to 7.5 years. |
| Long-Term Treasury | treasury-long | 25 | US Treasury debt 70% or more, duration over 7.5 years. |
| Inflation-Protected Bonds | inflation-protected | 25 | Treasury notes 50% or more of its debt and a name that says inflation-protected. |
| Ultrashort Bonds | ultrashort-bond | 39 | Debt that is not all Treasury debt, duration under 1 year. |
| Short-Term Bonds | short-term-bond | 24 | Investment grade debt of several kinds, duration 1 to 3.5 years. |
| Core Bonds | core-bond | 106 | Investment grade debt of several kinds, duration 3.5 to 7.5 years. |
| Long-Term Bonds | long-term-bond | 5 | Investment grade debt of several kinds, duration over 7.5 years. |
| Short-Term Corporate Bonds | corporate-short | 25 | Corporate debt 60% or more, duration under 3.5 years. |
| Intermediate Corporate Bonds | corporate-intermediate | 62 | Corporate debt 60% or more, duration 3.5 to 7.5 years. |
| Long-Term Corporate Bonds | corporate-long | 11 | Corporate debt 60% or more, duration over 7.5 years. |
| High Yield Bonds | high-yield | 96 | Corporate debt 60% or more with an average coupon of 5.75% or more, or a name that says high yield. |
| Bank Loans | bank-loans | 16 | Loans 50% or more of its debt. |
| CLO Bonds | clo | 34 | Collateralized loan obligations 50% or more of its debt. |
| Mortgage-Backed Bonds | mortgage-backed | 18 | Agency mortgage pools 50% or more of its debt. |
| Securitized Bonds | securitized | 70 | Asset-backed, mortgage and collateralized debt together 50% or more of its debt. |
| Short-Term Municipal Bonds | municipal-short | 45 | Municipal debt 60% or more, duration under 3.5 years. |
| Intermediate Municipal Bonds | municipal-intermediate | 101 | Municipal debt 60% or more, duration 3.5 to 7.5 years. |
| Long-Term Municipal Bonds | municipal-long | 35 | Municipal debt 60% or more, duration over 7.5 years. |
| International Bonds | international-bond | 22 | 60% or more of its debt is owed by borrowers outside the US. |
| Emerging Markets Bonds | emerging-markets-bond | 30 | 50% or more of its debt is owed by borrowers in emerging markets. |
| Target Maturity Bonds | target-maturity | 89 | Its name names the year its debt matures. |
| Multisector Bonds | multisector-bond | 58 | Debt of several kinds with high yield, loans or securitized debt, no kind reaching the share another category requires. |
| Convertible Bonds | convertible-bonds | 4 | A name that says convertible. |
| Money Market | money-market | 14 | A money market fund by its name or stated objective. |

## Multi-asset

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Conservative Allocation | allocation-conservative | 32 | Stocks and bonds, each 15% or more, with less than 40% in stocks. |
| Moderate Allocation | allocation-moderate | 59 | Stocks and bonds, each 15% or more, with 40% to 70% in stocks. |
| Aggressive Allocation | allocation-aggressive | 13 | Stocks and bonds, each 15% or more, with more than 70% in stocks. |

## Option strategies

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Option Income](https://tickerinside.com/etf/category/option-income/) | option-income | 265 | Writes call or put options on a broad index or basket for income, by its contracts, or by its name where its file lists none. |
| Single-Stock Option Income | single-stock-option-income | 75 | Writes options on one stock for income, by its contracts, or by its name where its file lists none. |
| Defined Outcome | defined-outcome | 513 | Options that cap gains and buffer losses over a set period, by its contracts or its name. |
| Hedged Equity | hedged-equity | 76 | Stock exposure with losses limited by options: stocks with purchased puts or a collar, or Treasuries with purchased calls, by its contracts or its name. |

## Leveraged and inverse

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Leveraged Equity | leveraged-equity | 226 | A multiple above 1 of the daily return of a stock index or basket: net exposure of 115% of net assets or more, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Leveraged Single Stock | leveraged-single-stock | 374 | A multiple above 1 of the daily return of one stock: net exposure of 115% of net assets or more, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Inverse Equity | inverse-equity | 67 | The inverse of the daily return of a stock index or basket: net exposure of -40% of net assets or less, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Inverse Single Stock | inverse-single-stock | 66 | The inverse of the daily return of one stock: net exposure of -40% of net assets or less, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Leveraged Bonds | leveraged-bond | 7 | A multiple above 1 of the daily return of bonds or rates: net exposure of 115% of net assets or more, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Inverse Bonds | inverse-bond | 8 | The inverse of the daily return of bonds or rates: net exposure of -40% of net assets or less, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Leveraged Commodities | leveraged-commodity | 19 | A multiple above 1 of the daily return of a commodity: net exposure of 115% of net assets or more, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Inverse Commodities | inverse-commodity | 7 | The inverse of the daily return of a commodity: net exposure of -40% of net assets or less, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Leveraged Crypto | leveraged-crypto | 22 | A multiple above 1 of the daily return of a crypto asset: net exposure of 115% of net assets or more, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Inverse Crypto | inverse-crypto | 7 | The inverse of the daily return of a crypto asset: net exposure of -40% of net assets or less, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Leveraged Other | leveraged-other | 6 | A multiple above 1 of a currency, volatility or other return: net exposure of 115% of net assets or more, by its contracts or stated target. |
| Inverse Other | inverse-other | 5 | The inverse of a currency, volatility or other return: net exposure of -40% of net assets or less, by its contracts or stated target. |

## Commodities

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gold and Precious Metals | precious-metals | 25 | Gold, silver, platinum or palladium, held as metal or as futures. |
| Energy Commodities | energy-commodities | 12 | Futures on oil, natural gas or other energy. |
| Broad Commodities | broad-commodities | 23 | Futures on commodities of several kinds. |
| Other Commodities | other-commodities | 14 | Futures on farm goods, industrial metals, freight or carbon allowances. |

## Crypto assets

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | bitcoin | 24 | Bitcoin, held or through futures or other funds' shares. |
| Ether | ether | 19 | Ether, held or through futures or other funds' shares. |
| Other Crypto Assets | crypto-other | 53 | A crypto asset other than bitcoin or ether, or several. |

## Alternatives

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Currency | currency | 8 | A currency or the US dollar against others, held or through futures. |
| Volatility | volatility | 3 | VIX futures. |
| Managed Futures | managed-futures | 17 | Futures long and short across several asset classes. |
| Long-Short Equity | long-short-equity | 11 | Stocks held long with stocks or indexes sold short through contracts. |
| Other Alternatives | alternative-other | 16 | Contracts on several asset classes that no other category describes. |

## Other

| Category | Id | ETFs | What it requires |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Single Stock | single-stock | 10 | One company's shares make 80% or more of its net assets. |
| Not Yet Classified | unclassified | 24 | Too little to measure: no holdings file yet, or a file that names too little of what it holds, and a name and stated objective that do not say what it holds. The category comes with a file that does. |


## How an ETF's category is set

1. A trust or commodity pool is placed by what its own SEC filing says it holds: a metal, a crypto asset, a currency, or futures on a commodity or on volatility, with the multiple it targets.
2. An ETF with swaps, futures or options in its filing is placed by them first. Net exposure of 115% of net assets or more makes it leveraged, -40% or less inverse; written calls or puts make it option income; purchased puts with written calls and puts make it a buffer; purchased puts or calls that limit losses make it hedged; otherwise the asset its contracts are on decides.
3. A fund of funds whose ETFs are option strategies, crypto assets, commodities, bonds, leveraged and inverse and alternatives takes the category that 80% of the ETFs it holds share, when they share one. An ETF of stock ETFs is read through to their stocks.
4. A bond ETF is placed by the kind of debt that dominates, the country of its borrowers, and its duration from the filing: under 1 year, 1 to 3.5, 3.5 to 7.5, or over 7.5 years. A corporate ETF whose average coupon is 5.75% or more is high yield.
5. A stock ETF is read in this order: preferred shares; gold and silver miners; a country or region outside the US holding 75% of its stocks with a known country (90% for Asia as a whole); one sector holding 60% of the stocks whose sector is known and 45% or more of all its stocks (energy and materials count together in an ETF whose name names a natural resource); energy and materials together on the same two lines; a theme its name names (solar, clean energy, batteries, uranium and lithium) in an ETF of fewer than 200 companies when no sector reaches those lines; two sectors holding 80% in fewer than 200 companies; then where its companies are: 75% or more in the US is a US ETF (85% for an ETF whose name says global or international), 20% or less international, half or more of the rest in emerging markets an emerging markets ETF, anything between global.
6. Size is the average place of its stocks in their market, weighted by holding: the share of the market's value in larger companies. Up to 78% is large, 78% to 94% mid, over 94% small. An ETF with fewer than 50% of its stocks ranked by size is counted large.
7. Style is the share of its stocks' value that growth index funds hold rather than value index funds, compared with the share they hold of companies of the same sizes across the whole market: 10 points or more above is growth, 10 or more below is value, anything between blend. An ETF with fewer than 50% of its stocks given a style takes the style its name says, growth or value, and is otherwise counted blend.
8. A company's sector and country are the ones every ETF's breakdown gives it (https://tickerinside.com/how-the-numbers-are-produced/#sectors): the sector the sector funds that hold it vote for, else the sector of its SEC industry code; the country a single-country index fund places it in, else the market it is listed on, else the country of its SEC filings. A measure is taken only when it covers 50% or more of the ETF's stocks; below that, a sector or a theme the ETF's name names decides.
9. The name in the ETF's filing decides what the file cannot show: a strategy whose options or swaps the file leaves out, an ETF whose file holds only cash and Treasuries, a sector or theme or a style the measures above cannot set, and, within 2.5 points of a line, which side of it the ETF is on. An ETF with no holdings file yet is placed by its name and the objective its prospectus states.
10. The night before decides the side of a line a measure sits within 2.5 points of, when the name does not: the ETF keeps the side its category was on the night before. Within 2.5 points of the line of a sector, a theme or natural resources, an ETF whose name and category of the night before say neither is not counted in it. Past 2.5 points the measure alone decides, and each ETF's rule says when the name or the night before did.

Reference maps, rebuilt every night: 7,078 companies placed in a sector by 115 sector funds and the SEC industry codes, 11,646 ranked by size in VTI and VXUS, 3,656 given a style by 10 pairs of growth and value index funds. 46 single-country index funds place companies in their country.

Until 9 October 2026 the site printed the category the market data gave for an ETF. These categories replaced it, and the category pages the site had then lead to the nearest one here.

## Use the categories in code

- https://tickerinside.com/api/v1/funds.json gives every ETF's category as `cat_id`, its id, and `c`, its name: its label, except for the nine US size and style categories, whose name there is the one the lists gave them before 9 October 2026 (Large Blend for US Large Blend), so that programs written before then read them as they did.
- Every ETF's file has a `category` block: `id`, `label`, `group`, `asset_class`, `rule`, the `facets` it measured and the figures behind them.
- https://tickerinside.com/api/v1/screen?category=us-small-value lists the ETFs of one category, by id or label.
- The MCP tool list_etfs gives the category and its id of each ETF it finds, and get_etf_holdings an ETF's category with the rule that set it.