SPXU vs SOXL.
ProShares UltraPro Short S&P 500 (-3x daily S&P 500) against Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (3x daily NYSE Semiconductor) — fees, long-horizon total returns, holdings overlap, and sector tilt, side by side.
Daily bar history for this pair isn’t loaded yet — returns will appear once the nightly ingest covers both funds.
| SPXU | SOXL | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | ProShares UltraPro Short S&P500 | Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares |
| Category | Trading--Inverse Equity | Trading--Leveraged Equity |
| Style | Passive | Passive |
| Expense ratio | 0.9% | 0.76% |
| Assets (AUM) | $426.7M | $31.6B |
| Dividend yield | 6.85% | 0.00% |
| Avg volume (3-mo) | 9.8M | 61.1M |
| Inception | June 23, 2009 | March 11, 2010 |
| Benchmark proxy | S&P 500 (-3x daily target) | PHLX Semiconductor (3x daily) |
SOXL costs 0.14 pp less per year — about $14.00 per $10,000 invested.
Expense ratios verified against issuer fact sheets. Dividend yield is trailing 12-month distributions divided by price, as reported by the fund data provider.
Sum of min(weight in each fund) across shared tickers — the standard fund-overlap measure. Computed on the top 25 holdings each fund reports, so it is a lower bound; the coverage figures show how much of each fund those top holdings represent.