Van Eck Vectors Retail ETF (NASDAQ:RTH) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MVIS® US Listed Retail 25 Index. The fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise the fund’s benchmark index. To be initially eligible for the index, companies must generate at least 50% of their revenues from retail. Retail includes companies engaged primarily in retail distribution; wholesalers; online, direct mail and TV retailers; multi-line retailers; specialty retailers; and food and other staples retailers. The fund is non-diversified.

Fund Overview

• Net Assets 258.35 Millions
• YTD Daily Total Return 14.05%
• Yield 0.57%
• Annual Expense Ratio 0.35%

Performance Overview

• 14.05% YTD Daily Total Return
• 23.82% 1-Year Daily Total Return
• 20.33% 3-Year Daily Total Return

Van Eck Vectors Retail ETF has a 20.28% allocation to Amazon.com. This ETF’s willingness to concentrate its bets on a single stock has paid off with dramatic outperformance. Most of the other stocks among the fund’s holdings are traditional retailers in the home-improvement, drugstore, grocery, and big-box department-store niches, but the fact that returns are double the SPDR’s average performance shows how instrumental online retail has been.

Top 10 Holdings (71.68% of Total Assets)

Name	Symbol	% Assets
Amazon.com Inc	AMZN	20.28%
The Home Depot Inc	HD	11.60%
Walmart Inc	WMT	8.27%
Costco Wholesale Corp	COST	5.04%
Lowe’s Companies Inc	LOW	4.92%
JD.com Inc ADR	JD	4.78%
Target Corp	TGT	4.54%
TJX Companies Inc	TJX	4.51%
CVS Health Corp	CVS	4.28%
Dollar General Corp	DG	3.46%

Therefore, Van Eck Vectors Retail ETF is the best ETF for investors who want to own retail stocks.