Direxion Daily Pharmaceutical & Medical Bull 3X ETF (PILL) holdings & weights
Per-holding contribution · concentration · sector skew — a deep read
Fund overview
This is a US-listed ETF from Direxion. It tracks the S&P Pharmaceuticals Select Industry. Key facts — expense ratio 0.98%; net assets about $15M; inception Nov 15, 2017. Its 1-year return is +69.19%.
Fund details
Fund overview
This is a US-listed ETF from Direxion. It tracks the S&P Pharmaceuticals Select Industry. Key facts — expense ratio 0.98%; net assets about $15M; inception Nov 15, 2017. Its 1-year return is +69.19%.
61 identified stocks · net exposure / NAV 74.76%. Display weights are normalized to 100%; calculations retain original exposures without an additional leverage multiplier. Cash and unallocated contracts are excluded from stock attribution.
Weight and calculation basis
61 identified stocks · net exposure / NAV 74.76%. Display weights are normalized to 100%; calculations retain original exposures without an additional leverage multiplier. Cash and unallocated contracts are excluded from stock attribution.
We have this ETF's holdings, but the prices for those particular listings are outside our quote coverage (currently Korea- and US-listed securities). So today's contribution and return are not computed — showing 0% would claim it did not move, which is a different statement. The holdings and weights below follow the calculation basis above.
Today's summary
Its top 10 holdings make up about 23.9% of the fund. The concentration index (HHI) is 184 — Low — evenly diversified, and the largest sector is Health Care (99%). The higher the concentration, the more one stock or sector drives the whole ETF's return.
Structural health
A five-axis read on how this fund is built. It is not a return forecast or a recommendation, and a low score does not mean a bad fund — leveraged products score low by design. Each axis shows the figure behind it.
Concentration is below 1,500 (184), so no single holding dominates.
Health Care alone is 99%. This is effectively a bet on that one industry — if the sector falls, diversification will not help.
0.98% a year is on the high side — about 9.8% over a decade, so it needs a reason to earn that.
Net assets of $15M are small. Thin funds trade at wider spreads, and very small ones get closed or merged.
A 3x leveraged fund. It resets exposure daily, so over more than a few days the result drifts from "index move × 3". Built for short holds.
Concentration and diversification
Structural health
A five-axis read on how this fund is built. It is not a return forecast or a recommendation, and a low score does not mean a bad fund — leveraged products score low by design. Each axis shows the figure behind it.
Concentration is below 1,500 (184), so no single holding dominates.
Health Care alone is 99%. This is effectively a bet on that one industry — if the sector falls, diversification will not help.
0.98% a year is on the high side — about 9.8% over a decade, so it needs a reason to earn that.
Net assets of $15M are small. Thin funds trade at wider spreads, and very small ones get closed or merged.
A 3x leveraged fund. It resets exposure daily, so over more than a few days the result drifts from "index move × 3". Built for short holds.
Top 20 holdings
4 derivative positions are excluded. Stock contributions do not explain the entire ETF return.
Weights are normalized to 100% of absolute exposures across analysed positions, including positions outside this top list. Cash, collateral and unverified assets are excluded. Contributions retain original signed NAV exposures; leverage is not applied twice.
Normalized to 100% of analysed positions
Weights are normalized to 100% of absolute exposures across analysed positions, including positions outside this top list. Cash, collateral and unverified assets are excluded. Contributions retain original signed NAV exposures; leverage is not applied twice.
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | XERIS BIOPHARMAXERS | 2.80% |
| 2 | PACIRA BIOSCIENCESPCRX | 2.65% |
| 3 | PERRIGOPRGO | 2.43% |
| 4 | VIATRISVTRS | 2.37% |
| 5 | ELI LILLYLLY | 2.33% |
| 6 | AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALSAMRX | 2.33% |
| 7 | VERADERMICSMANE | 2.29% |
| 8 | ZOETISZTS | 2.27% |
| 9 | PFIZERPFE | 2.23% |
| 10 | LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALSLGND | 2.15% |
| 11 | PRESTIGE CONSUMER HEALTHCAREPBH | 2.15% |
| 12 | ANI PHARMACEUTICALSANIP | 2.14% |
| 13 | ORGANONOGN | 2.11% |
| 14 | ROYALTY PHARMA-RPRX | 2.11% |
| 15 | ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTHELAN | 2.10% |
| 16 | MAZE THERAPEUTICSMAZE | 2.09% |
| 17 | MERCKMRK | 2.07% |
| 18 | INNOVIVAINVA | 2.06% |
| 19 | COLLEGIUM PHARMACEUTICALCOLL | 2.03% |
| 20 | JOHNSON & JOHNSONJNJ | 2.00% |
Holdings below 0.5% or outside the top list are folded into “Others” and omitted above.
Where the weight sits — sector mix
Listed equity weights summed by sector and normalized to 100%. Each band is one sector's share.
Industry breakdown
HHI sums the squared weights. The more it leans on a few names, the higher it goes — and the more the whole ETF moves with them.
Leverage / inverse caveat
This fund tracks its index at 3x.
That 3x applies to a **single day**. Held longer, the daily reset makes the period return drift from 3x the index: if the index chops up and down and returns to where it started, this fund is still down. That is volatility decay.
It bites hardest in sideways markets and compounds with holding time. These are built for short directional trades.
How concentrated is it
Concentration (HHI) is low at 184, with the top 10 holdings at just 23.9% of equity weight. No single name can dominate the fund.
Good for damping single-stock risk — and equally, a big winner inside gets diluted.
HHI squares each weight and sums them: 10,000 means one stock is everything, and the more evenly spread the holdings, the closer it falls to zero.
Where the sector weight sits
By sector, Health Care alone is 99% — whatever the fund is called, this is a bet on that industry.
Bad news for the sector moves the whole fund. Worth checking against anything else you hold in the same space.
Weights above sum the individually listed equities and normalize that equity total to 100%.
How much it overlaps others
Even its closest peer, ELIL, overlaps only 11% (3 shared names).
Funds filed under the same label can hold quite different companies, so pairing this one with another may genuinely spread risk.
What it is made of
The fund holds 68 positions in total; this page lists the largest 61 and folds the rest into "Others".
Equities are 74.8% of the fund, the rest swaps and cash — index exposure built synthetically rather than by owning the shares, which adds counterparty risk.
The expense ratio is 0.98% a year, which is not cheap. Fees come out of returns every year you hold, so it is worth checking whether the same index is available for less.
This page is not investment advice. Investment decisions and responsibility are your own.
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