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BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (ASX: BEAR) - Share Price and Research

- Current share price for BEAR : $7.555

BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) is an Exchange Traded Fund - commonly known as an ETF. For more details about how ETFs work, feel free to check out our What is an ETF? overview. BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR), also known as Bear Fund, is a managed fund in Australia that allows investors to profit from, or protect against, a decline of the Australian share market.

BEAR General Information +

ASX Code BEAR
Website http://www.betashares.com.au
Industry/Sector Asset Management & Custody Banks
Market Cap ($M) 49
BEAR Share Price $7.555
Day High $7.575
Day Low $7.555
Last Close $7.555
BEAR Share Price Movement - ( No change )
Prices as at 16:40, 9 Dec 2024
+Security prices are delayed by at least 20 minutes and are indicative only.

BEAR Fund Information

Alternative - Other
RBA Bank accepted Bills 90 Days
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Not Rated
Investment Fund
6 Jul 2012
$49.44 million (as at 5 Dec 2024)

BEAR ETF performance (30 Nov 2024)

NOTE : returns for periods greater than 1 year are annualised
  1 Month % 3 Month % 6 Month % 1 Year % p.a. 2 Year % p.a. 3 Year % p.a. 5 Year % p.a. 10 Year % p.a.
Total return -3.13 -3.67 -7.03 -13.42 -5.09 -5.87 -8.09 -8.23
Growth return -3.13 -3.67 -7.03 -13.42 -5.09 -6.3 -8.34 -8.45
Income return (Yield) 0 0 0 0 0 0.43 0.25 0.22

Market index (RBA Bank accepted Bills 90 Days)

Total return 0.36 1.08 2.19 4.39 4.13 3.21 1.98 1.93

BEAR Related Research

BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) Upcoming Dividends & Yields

Distribution Type Dividend Franking Ex-dividend date Payment date Current Price+ Price 7D Avg Dividend Yield
HFResult 0% 3 Jul 2023 18 Jul 2023 $7.555 $7.520 -
HFResult 13.16¢ 0% 1 Jul 2022 18 Jul 2022 $7.555 $7.520 -
HFResult 16.86¢ 0% 1 Jul 2016 18 Jul 2016 $7.555 $7.520 -

See all dividends from BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) or use our Upcoming Dividends tool to search for dividends across all ASX-listed securities.

BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) Recent ASX Announcements

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BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) Financials $50 Units on Issue Disclosure - November 2024 5 Dec 2024 11:39AM $7.490 $7.555 risen by 0.87%
BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) Financials $50 Units on Issue Disclosure - October 2024 6 Nov 2024 12:07PM $7.740 $7.555 fallen by 2.39%
BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) Financials $50 Units on Issue Disclosure - September 2024 4 Oct 2024 12:56PM $7.745 $7.555 fallen by 2.45%
BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) Financials $50 Annual Report 27 Sep 2024 4:09PM $7.670 $7.555 fallen by 1.50%
BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) Financials $50 Units on Issue Disclosure - August 2024 5 Sep 2024 2:57PM $7.920 $7.555 fallen by 4.61%
BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) Financials $50 Units on Issue Disclosure - July 2024 6 Aug 2024 5:34PM $8.200 $7.555 fallen by 7.87%

BEAR Financial Summary

Year to Jun NPAT EPS EPS chg (%) PER DPS Yield (%) Franking (%)
2024A -$2.36 -$44.20 -59.10% 0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.0%
2023A -$6.53 -$108.00 -444.80% 0.00 0.00 0.00% 0.0%
2022A $2.02 $31.30 -109.20% 28.80 13.20 1.50% 0.0%

BEAR Peer Comparison

Company Mkt Cap EPS Growth (%) P/E (%) Dividend Yield (%)
2022 A 2023 A 2024 A 2022 A 2023 A 2024 A 2022 A 2023 A 2024 A
BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) $0M -0.5910 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
HMC Capital (HMC) $5,093M 0.0191 0.0000 0.0000 59.2042 0.0000 0.0000 0.97% 0.00% 0.00%
Netwealth Group (NWL) $7,454M 0.2382 0.2487 0.2325 89.2962 71.5124 58.0221 0.92% 1.16% 1.40%
Pinnacle Investment Management Group (PNI) $5,471M 0.1667 0.1969 0.1911 53.6484 44.8219 37.6291 1.72% 2.01% 2.39%
Perpetual (PPT) $2,503M -0.1521 0.2241 -0.0452 15.3900 12.5726 13.1679 5.40% 5.95% 5.49%

BEAR Market Comparison

Earnings P/E Ratio P/B Ratio P/E Growth
Company 0.00 0.00 0.94 0.00
Market 0.39 13.70 1.11 0.91
Sector 0.56 13.20 1.06 0.79

BEAR Directors

Name Position Start Date
Mr Alex Vynokur Executive Director 21 Sep 2009
Mr Jason Gellert Executive Director 5 Mar 2021
Mr Edward Sippel Non-Executive Director 5 Mar 2021

BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) Changes in Directors' Interest & Trades

There are no directors' trades from BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR). Please use our Changes in directors' interest tool to search for changes & trades across all ASX-listed securities.

FAQs about BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR)

BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund's (BEAR) current share price is $7.56. This constitutes a price movement of 0.47% when compared to the share price 7 days ago and is -11.64% below BEAR's 12-month high of $8.55 per share. Prices are delayed by at least 20 minutes.

Relative to the previous close share price of $7.56, BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund's (BEAR) current share price of $7.56 constitutes a movement of or 0%. BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund's (BEAR) share price movement is 0.47% when compared to 7 days ago and is -11.64% below BEAR's 52-week high of $8.55.

BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund's (BEAR) 52-week high is $8.55 which was reached on 11 Dec 2023. Relative to this, BEAR's current share price of $7.56 constitutes a -$1.00 or -11.64% drop since that high of $8.55 per BEAR share.

BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund's (BEAR) 52-week low is $7.46 which was reached on 3 Dec 2024. Relative to this, BEAR's current share price of $7.56 constitutes a $0.10 or 1.34% gain since that low of $7.46 per BEAR share.

BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund's (BEAR) current market capitalisation is $49,831,496. 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: 3 Jul 2023

Upcoming record date: 4 Jul 2023

Upcoming payment date: 18 Jul 2023

ETFs, such as BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR), 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 Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR), 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 Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR).


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 Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) 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.

BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR) has a current dividend yield of 0% this year. Last year's dividend yield was 0%. The dividend yield for BEAR is a ratio that tells you the percentage of BetaShares Australian Equities Bear Hedge Fund (BEAR)'s share price that it pays out in dividends each year. The dividend yield is calculated by dividing the annual dividends by the current share price.

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