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DOG · Proshares Short Dow30

Over the last 15 years (2011-09 to 2026-09), $10,000 invested in DOG with dividends reinvested grew to $1,554, -11.61% a year, with a worst peak-to-trough fall of -85.69%. Past performance doesn't predict future results.

Growth of $10,000 · 2011-09 to 2026-09 · dividends reinvested

CAGR (annualized return)
-11.61%
Volatility (annualized)
13.41%
Worst drawdown
-85.69%
Sharpe ratio
-0.97

How DOG held up in past market crashes

DOG has been through 4 of the market crashes since 2000 in our data. Its deepest price fall was 26.9% in the 2008 financial crisis, when the S&P 500 fell 56.5%. Its price had not yet regained that high by the latest close (price only, not counting the dividends or interest it paid). No fund is safe from losses; past falls do not predict future ones.

Deepest price fall and recovery time of DOG in each market crash, next to the S&P 500
CrashDOG deepest fallS&P 500 (SPY)Peak to bottomBack to peak
2008 financial crisis-26.9%-56.5%Nov 2008 to Jan 2009Not yet
2018 fourth-quarter selloff-6.7%-20.2%Oct 2018 to Nov 2018Under a month
2020 COVID crash-9.2%-34.1%Mar 2020 to Mar 2020Under a month
2022 bear market-12.7%-25.4%Jun 2022 to Aug 20221 months

Price declines in the fund's listing currency, dividends not included, inside each crash's S&P 500 peak-to-bottom window. See how 50 popular ETFs compare in the crash study.

About DOG

ProShares Short Dow30 is an inverse exchange-traded fund designed to provide daily investment results that correspond to the opposite of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It offers exposure to 30 large, price-weighted U.S. blue-chip companies, making it a tool used for short-term tactical positioning and portfolio hedging against broad market declines. The fund is structured as a passive ETF and uses derivatives-based replication to seek its objective, rather than directly holding the index constituents. ProShares Short Dow30 is part of ProShares’ leveraged and inverse fund lineup and is commonly used by market participants seeking efficient access to an inverse view on large-cap U.S. equities.

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