How is VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) doing?
VanEck Semiconductor ETF is an exchange-traded fund. Here is how it has done against the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Strong
VanEck Semiconductor ETF shares are up 74% over the past year, 51 points ahead of the S&P 500. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 96th percentile on market beat and the 41st on staying power. It appears on 3 of our dashboards, including 3rd on “Which ETFs actually beat the S&P 500?” and 5th on “Is the S&P 500 stretched?”.
The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Semis & hardware, 67 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Chipmakers and the gear that builds them — the AI-cycle epicentre.
VanEck Semiconductor ETF is +74% over the past year, against +74% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 25th of 67 in Semis & hardware.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
Calmer than usual VanEck Semiconductor ETF typically moves 2.5% in a day, calmer than usual for it, and it swings more than 91% of large US funds.
SMH on our dashboards
Every question where VanEck Semiconductor ETF appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with SMH highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is the S&P 500 stretched? Market health | 64Extended | 5 of 17 | vs 200-day +19.2% · RSI 53 · From high −9.8% |
| Which sectors and countries are leading? What’s leading | 57Middle | 45 of 86 | Group Sector · vs S&P, 1M +4.3 pts · 3M −4.4 pts |
| Which ETFs actually beat the S&P 500? Funds and commodities | 9934 of 52 wks | 3 of 60 | vs S&P, 1Y +66 pts · vs S&P, 3Y +226 pts · Weeks won, 3Y 60% |
Go deeper on Stox
SMH’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see SMH’s full profile on Stox.
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