BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged (ASX: QAU) - Share Price and Research

BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged's (QAU) current share price is $21.44. This constitutes a price movement of 3.16% when compared to the share price 7 days ago and is -6.90% below QAU's 12-month high of $23.03 per share. Prices are delayed by at least 20 minutes.

Relative to the previous close share price of $21.51, BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged's (QAU) current share price of $21.44 constitutes a movement of -$0.07 or -0.33%. BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged's (QAU) share price movement is -3.16% when compared to 7 days ago and is -6.90% below QAU's 52-week high of $23.03.

BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged's (QAU) 52-week high is $23.03 which was reached on 31 Oct 2024. Relative to this, QAU's current share price of $21.44 constitutes a -$1.59 or -6.90% drop since that high of $23.03 per QAU share.

BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged's (QAU) 52-week low is $16.71 which was reached on 15 Feb 2024. Relative to this, QAU's current share price of $21.44 constitutes a $4.73 or 28.31% gain since that low of $16.71 per QAU share.

BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged's (QAU) current market capitalisation is $685,879,965. Market capitalisation, sometimes referred to as "market cap", is the total value of a company's or ETF's issued shares or units owned by shareholders or unitholders. Market capitalisation is equal to the market price per share or unit multiplied by the number of shares or units outstanding.

Upcoming ex-distribution date: 1 Jul 2022

Upcoming record date: 4 Jul 2022

Upcoming payment date: 18 Jul 2022

ETFs, such as BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged (QAU), pay distributions instead of dividends. The difference is that dividends are declared by companies from part of the profits made during any given year and the company’s management decide the amount of earnings retained verses how much to pay out to investors. An ETF, like BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged (QAU), must pay out all realised income. This is a combination of any dividends received plus capital gains realised from the buying and selling of underlying holdings within BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged (QAU).

A distribution has three key dates:

Ex-distribution date: Date the distribution value leaves the ETF. This will normally correspond with the ETF unit price dropping in value by the same amount as the distribution.

Record date: Date someone must be on the unit registry to receive the distribution.

Payment date date: Date the distribution is paid to the unit holder.

BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF - Currency Hedged (QAU) has a franking level of 0%. Franking represents the tax a company has already paid on any profit it distributes to shareholders as a dividend. Only Australian companies pay franking credits therefore you will not see franking on ETFs that invest internationally. For ETFs that are diversified across asset classes, you may see partial franking.