Owns companies using new technologies across ten themes, including healthcare innovation, cloud computing, fintech, robotics and AI, cybersecurity, clean energy, 3D printing and mobile payments.
DTEC, the ALPS Disruptive Technologies ETF, is a $72 million ETF whose main story is the productivity handoff. Over the past year it returned −0.9%, against +16.8% for broad US ETFs. Figures to October 2, 2026; past performance, not a recommendation.
DTEC · the ETFFRI OCT 2Market price total return
+8.7% a yearTotal return since launch, December 2017
Share is each ETF’s slice of the capital carrying this narrative. 1 year is market price total return; cost is the expense ratio. See all 168 ETFs on the narrative page →
1M, 3M, 1Y, 3Y, 5Y: one month to five years. YTD: year to date. * A year, annualised. A dash means the ETF has not traded for the whole period. Since it started trading on December 29, 2017: +8.7% a year.
Total return in each calendar year; this year is year to date. A year appears only if DTEC traded for all of it.
Total return on the market price, with each distribution reinvested on its ex-date. Not the NAV return the issuer publishes; the two differ when the ETF trades above or below the value of its holdings. The narrative is the asset-weighted return of the unlevered ETFs that carry it. The market is the asset-weighted return of broad US index ETFs. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
FRI OCT 2MARKET PRICE TOTAL RETURN
How closely it moves
With the market0.84
−1 opposite0 unrelated+1 in step
DTEC moves closely with the market. When the market has moved 1%, DTEC has tended to move 1.10%.
With The productivity handoff0.89
−1 opposite0 unrelated+1 in step
DTEC moves closely with the productivity handoff. When the productivity handoff has moved 1%, DTEC has tended to move 0.73%.
Weekly returns over 157 weeks. The narrative is measured without DTEC in it, so it is not compared with itself.
Correlation of weekly returns over the last 3 years, among unlevered ETFs StoryVector covers.
Where it sits in The productivity handoff
Each dot is one of 31 unlevered ETFs whose main narrative is the productivity handoff, placed by its return (up) and how much it swung (right) over the last year.
Risk
19.9%Volatility, last year
−20.3%Largest fall, last year
−4.9%Below its high now
0.50%Expense ratio, a year · 8th cheapest of 26
0.04%Payout yield, last 12 months
$259,178Traded each day, 3-month average
$72.3mAssets
Issued by ALPS · launched December 28, 2017
Cost against its peers
DTEC is the 8th cheapest of 26 ETFs in the productivity handoff. The dashed line is the middle of the group, 0.56% a year.
How it is built
An unlevered long ETF that owns its holdings directly. It counts toward Share of Narrative.
Leverage1xMoves one for one with what it holds
OptionsNoneNo options on top of what it holds
ExposureOwns its holdingsHolds the securities or the asset directly
Second narrative: not yet confirmed from a filing.
Common questions
What story is DTEC selling?
DTEC’s main story is the productivity handoff, which covers software, cloud and online retail: the companies that sell the work AI is starting to do. Its second is physical AI layer.
Which ETFs compete with DTEC?
The ETFs whose weekly returns move most like DTEC’s over the past 3 years are ROBT (0.93), TMFX (0.91) and NUMG (0.91).
How has DTEC performed against its story?
Over the past year DTEC returned −0.9%, the ETFs carrying the productivity handoff +17.9% and broad US ETFs +16.8%, to October 2, 2026. Its weekly returns have a correlation of 0.89 with the story. Past performance only.
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Narrative figures are from the weekly board. Performance is market price total return as of October 2, 2026. Assets are StoryVector’s weekly figure. Classification and measurement. Not investment advice. How the measurement works →