Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF

BOTZ

Market cap $3.11B

While the world is binging on Artificial Intelligence (AI), worries over payoffs from massive AI investments are not leaving stakeholders and investors. Artificial intelligence firms such as OpenAI are racing fast with ambitious plans to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into data centers.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a huge catalyst for the portfolios of many investors over the past several years. Large tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out their AI hardware infrastructure, creating massive winners like semiconductor designer Nvidia.

Though it's far from a new approach, many exchange-traded funds (ETFs) aiming to provide exposure to the much-hyped artificial intelligence (AI) space tend to lean fairly heavily on a small number of big names. NVIDIA Corp. NASDAQ: NVDA, for example, is the single largest holding of the popular Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF NASDAQ: BOTZ fund, representing nearly 12% of the entire portfolio.

The Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF offers exposure to robotics and AI across multiple sectors, focusing on "physical AI" applications. BOTZ tracks the Indxx Global Robotics & AI Thematic Index, with a $300M minimum market cap, allowing small-cap robotics inclusion. The portfolio of 49 holdings is concentrated in technology, industrials, and healthcare; the U.S. and Japan dominate country exposure.

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