Key Highlights

  • The fund holds 80 companies, with the top ten at only 17.08%.
  • Industrials (45.18%) and Technology (44.31%) make up almost 90% of the portfolio.
  • The management fee is 0.69% and the fund size is $321.55 million.
  • The July 2026 distribution of $9.576 is far above the $0.182 paid in July 2025.

Global X ROBO Global Robotics & Automation ETF (ASX:ROBO) aims to provide investors with a return that, before fees and expenses, tracks the performance of the ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index. The fund was admitted to the ASX on 14 September 2017 and last traded at $91.58 on 13 October 2026. It reports a fund size of $321.55 million.

Detail

Information

Ticker

ASX:ROBO

Fund

Global X ROBO Global Robotics & Automation ETF

Category

Equity World Other

Benchmark

ROBO Gbl Robotic&Automat TR USD

Fund size

$321.55 million

Management fee

0.69%

Total holdings

80

ASX admission date

14 September 2017

Holdings

The ten largest positions represent 17.08% of the fund, and no single holding exceeds 1.93%. Intuitive Surgical leads at 1.93%, followed by Harmonic Drive Systems (1.74%), Celestica, Illumina and Fanuc (1.73% each) and Teradyne (1.72%).

Rockwell Automation holds 1.66%, and Ambarella, Novanta and Fuji Corp 1.60% each. Companies between $500 million and $1 billion in market capitalisation represent 21.50% and those below $500 million 3.98%.

Sector and country exposure

Industrials holds 45.18%, against 13.12% for the category, and Technology 44.31%, against 24.99%. Healthcare holds 5.88%, well below the 24.41% category weighting. The fund has no weighting in Financial Services, Energy or Real Estate.

The United States accounts for 39.02%, Japan 20.66%, against 4.31% for the category, Germany 9.62%, Taiwan 9.79% and China 4.57%.

Fee, risk and distributions

The management fee is 0.69% a year. The fund reports a beta of 1.98 and a standard deviation of 24.19. The final distribution of $9.576 per unit had an ex-date of 2 July 2026, a record date of 3 July and payment on 16 July, equal to an annual yield of 10.37%.

That is higher than the $0.182 paid in July 2025, $0.152 in July 2024, $0.393 in July 2023 and $4.822 in July 2022.

Category classification and liquidity

Morningstar places the fund in the Equity World Other category, which covers funds investing primarily in global stocks almost exclusively, with less than 20% of the portfolio in assets other than equities and a possible bias towards a single sector or country.

Liquidity indicators add a further view. There are 3,483,010 units on issue, and average daily trading volume is 8,369 units. Over the five sessions from 7 to 13 October 2026, daily volume ranged from 4,300 to 8,700 units, with 6,630 recorded on 13 October while the market was still open. The bid-offer range stood at $91.15 to $92.36, and the day range at $91.18 to $92.49. These figures change through the trading day and reflect market activity rather than the fund's holdings.

Recent announcements

The issuer lodged Units on Issue for September 2026 on 7 October, the Annual Financial Report on 28 September and Annual Statements 2026 on 16 September. A Quarterly Exit Periodic Statement followed on 14 August.

Closing Perspective

ROBO spreads exposure thinly across 80 automation-related companies, with a Japan weighting almost five times its category. The 0.69% fee, beta of 1.98 and lumpy distributions are part of its profile. These facts do not forecast outcomes.