Hedgeye Index Adds ETF (ADDS) Price & Chart

Hedgeye Index Adds ETF

Hedgeye Index Adds ETF (ADDS) is an actively managed U.S. equity ETF that seeks to profit from a specific, event-driven market inefficiency: the price appreciation that commonly follows a company’s inclusion in major U.S. stock indices. Rather than tracking a broad benchmark, ADDS maintains a narrow, concentrated portfolio of U.S.-listed stocks across the full market-cap spectrum that the fund’s quantitative process identifies as likely to be added to indexes such as the S&P and Russell families. Positioned in the Size & Style category with a Total Market focus and a Broad-based niche, ADDS draws its investment universe from the entire U.S. equity market and targets a compact set of high-conviction candidates. The fund’s selection engine blends proprietary machine learning with rule‑based quantitative models to analyze signals tied to index candidacy—corporate filings, share counts and float, liquidity and turnover patterns, valuation and momentum, and historical reconstitution behavior—seeking to anticipate which names will trigger index-driven buying and therefore outsized near-term gains. Because the strategy concentrates on event catalysts rather than market-cap weighting or style exposure, ADDS often exhibits higher turnover and more concentrated position sizes than passive broad-market ETFs. That design aims to deliver alpha from predictable portfolio flows and re-rating opportunities around index additions while accepting the added volatility and idiosyncratic risk that accompany a focused, active approach. The ETF is intended for investors seeking an actively managed complement to core equity holdings—one that exploits index-reconstitution dynamics across the total U.S. market rather than tracking conventional size- or style-based benchmarks.