AFK — VanEck Africa Index ETF

US equity
29.86 +2.32% today
USD · as of 2026-08-21

Price · 2024-08-26 → 2026-08-21

499 daily closes shown
52w low 21.64 · high 30.56

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Performance

1 day+2.32%
1 week+6.99%
1 month+17.14%
3 months+10.84%
6 months+0.14%
Year to date+12.72%
1 year+38.82%
3 years+105.43%
5 years+36.85%

Technicals

RSI 1480.5
vs 50-day avg+12.03%
vs 200-day avg+11.27%
Volatility 1y27.9%
Max drawdown 1y-19.54%
Avg volume 30d80.3K
Daily bars held2,674
History from2016-01-04

Dividends

Yield (trailing 12m)0.91%
Paid last 12m0.2716
Payments in 12m1
Paying since2016-12-19

Largest institutional holders

managervalueshares
JANE STREET GROUP, LLC3.6M139.4K
Private Wealth Advisors, LLC1.9M71.9K
FLAGSHIP HARBOR ADVISORS, LLC1.4M55.1K
Texas Yale Capital Corp.1.4M52.5K
MORGAN STANLEY821.6K31.9K
Yoffe Investment Management, LLC602.8K23.4K
SBI Securities Co., Ltd.596.5K23.2K
Apollon Wealth Management, LLC516.5K20.1K
Pekin Hardy Strauss, Inc.482.8K18.8K
LPL Financial LLC371.1K14.4K

13F positions as of 2026-03-31, filed up to 45 days after quarter end. Long-only US equity — shorts and derivatives never appear. What 13F does and does not show →

Short selling

Avg short volume, 90d28.3% of tape
Days observed61

This is off-exchange short volume, not short interest: it is flow, not position, and 40–50% is normal because market makers short to fill your buy. Why that number misleads →

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