Charted: How Leverage Multiplies Stock Returns

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An investment in any ETF involves significant risk.

Swipe between images to see how leverage works for both long and short ETFs.

Charted: How Leverage Multiplies Stock Returns

Have you ever wondered how to increase your stock exposure? Beyond simply investing a higher amount, using leverage is an opportunity to multiply your returns.

This graphic, from GraniteShares, shows hypothetical examples of how leveraged ETFs can affect your returns compared to regular stock trades.

How Does Leverage Work?

If you have a strong belief that a company’s stock price will go up or down, single-stock leveraged ETFs can help you increase your short-term exposure. The ETFs aim to multiply a stock’s daily price changes by a certain percentage before fees and expenses.

Long ETFs

Single-stock long ETFs are useful if you think the stock will gain value. Here’s a hypothetical example of how a $100 trade might perform over a single day for two scenarios:

The stock experienced a 5% gain
The stock experienced a 5% loss

We’ve compared a regular stock trade to a 2x long ETF, which aims to multiply a stock’s daily price changes by 200% in the same direction as the stock’s movement.

Stock Daily Price Movement	Ending Value of Initial $100 Stock Trade	2x Long ETF Daily Price Movement	Ending Value of Initial $100 2x Long ETF Trade
+5%	$105	+10%	$110
-5%	$95	-10%	$90

These examples are for illustrative purposes only, are not meant to be indicative of any specific investment or strategy and do not include the effects of fees or expenses associated with the ETFs.

When the stock gains 5%, the leverage of the 2x long ETF aims to double that gain for a daily return of 10%. On the flip side, if the stock goes down by 5%, the 2x long ETF could create a 10% loss for the investor.

Short ETFs

If you think a stock will lose value, single-stock short ETFs can be useful. Here’s a hypothetical example of how a $100 trade might perform over a single day for the same two scenarios.

We’ve compared a regular stock trade to a 2x short ETF, which aims to multiply a stock’s daily price changes by 200% in the opposite direction from the stock’s movement.

Stock Daily Price Movement	Ending Value of Initial $100 Stock Trade	2x Short ETF Daily Price Movement	Ending Value of Initial $100 2x Short ETF Trade
+5%	$105	-10%	$90
-5%	$95	+10%	$110

These examples are for illustrative purposes only, are not meant to be indicative of any specific investment or strategy and do not include the effects of fees or expenses associated with the ETFs.

Get 2x short exposure to Tesla with GraniteShares’ TSDD ETF.

Here, you can see that a 5% stock gain can result in a 10% loss with the 2x short ETF. However, if the stock loses 5%, the 2x short ETF aims for a 10% gain.

Using Leverage to Magnify Stock Exposure

If you’re confident in the future direction of particular stocks and want to increase your exposure, leverage can be a useful tool. It multiplies stock returns, which means more volatility, but also higher return potential.

Ready to explore leveraged ETFs on well-known tech stocks? GraniteShares offers short and long positions for a variety of companies, like Nvidia and Tesla.

Get details on single-stock leveraged ETFs from GraniteShares.

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