
The Defiance Large Cap ex-Magnificent Seven ETF endeavors to replicate the investment outcomes of the BITA US 500 ex-Magnificent 7 Index, exclusive of any fees and expenditures.
Is XMAG's expense ratio expensive, average, or a steal for its category?
Pro reveals the verdict on a 5-tier spectrum calibrated against ICI 2025 industry averages, with strategy-aware bands so the comparison is meaningful.

Nvidia (NVDA) showed the AI trade remains very much alive, says Sylvia Jablonski, along with how important everything that energizes AI really is. She talks about how memory and photonics "fuel the engine" to AI, pointing to several ETFs investors can use to add exposure to portfolios.

The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (CBOE:MAGS) was designed to provide investors with clean, equal-weighted exposure to the seven mega-caps that drove the S&P 500 higher for most of the past three years.

An exchange-traded fund holding the S&P 500 minus those seven names is outperforming the Magnificent Seven group by nearly 17 percentage points this year.

In H1 2026, part of my 2026 framework was confirmed: AI‑driven productivity, industrial strength, and utilities' power‑demand tailwinds played out, while the Iran shock created the only major deviation from expectations. However, the macro backdrop is changing: Brent is back in contango, Warsh is firmly higher‑for‑longer, growth and labor remain resilient, and hyperscalers continue pushing toward trillion‑dollar cumulative AI capex.

If you own an ETF tracking the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq-100, the Magnificent Seven are unavoidable.