Summary Prospectus
December 29, 2025
Goldman Sachs Enhanced U.S. Equity ETF
Ticker: GUSE Stock Exchange: The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Before you invest, you may want to review the Goldman Sachs Enhanced U.S. Equity ETF (the "Fund") Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund's Prospectus, reports to shareholders and other information about the Fund online at dfinview.com/GoldmanSachs. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 800-621-2550 or by sending an e-mail request to
[email protected]. The Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information ("SAI"), both dated December 29, 2025, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.
The Goldman Sachs Enhanced U.S. Equity ETF (the "Fund") seeks long-term growth of capital.
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Fees and Expenses of the Fund
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This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell Shares of the Fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example below.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
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Management Fee
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0.30%
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Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fee
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0.00%
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Other Expenses1
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0.00%
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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
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0.30%
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The Fund's "Other Expenses" have been estimated to reflect expenses expected to be incurred during the current fiscal year.
This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of owning Shares of the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then sell all of your Shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
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1 Year
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3 Years
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5 Years
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10 Years
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$31
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$97
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$169
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$381
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The Fund may pay transaction costs when it buys and sells securities or instruments (i.e., "turns over" its portfolio). A high rate of portfolio turnover may result in increased transaction costs, including brokerage commissions, which must be borne by the Fund and its shareholders, and is also likely to result in higher short-term capital gains for taxable shareholders. These costs are not reflected in total annual fund operating expenses or in the expense example above, but are reflected in the Fund's performance. The Fund's portfolio turnover rate for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025 was 73% of the average value of its portfolio. The portfolio turnover rate shown is that of the predecessor fund (as defined below).
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Principal Investment Strategies
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The Fund invests, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes (measured at the time of purchase) ("Net Assets") in equity securities issued by small-, mid- and large-cap U.S. companies. Equity securities represent an ownership interest, or the right to acquire an ownership interest, in an issuer. Equity securities include, among other things, common stocks. A U.S. company is an issuer economically tied to the United States.
The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, in companies that are considered by the Investment Adviser to be positioned for long-term growth of capital. Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. ("GSAM" or the "Investment Adviser") uses a combination of fundamental research and quantitative factors to achieve its investment objective. The Fund's fundamental equity investment process involves evaluating potential investments based on specific characteristics believed to identify high-quality businesses with sustainable growth prospects, including strong business franchises, favorable long-term prospects, and excellent management. The Investment Adviser may integrate environmental, social and governance ("ESG") factors alongside traditional fundamental factors as part of its fundamental research process. No one factor or consideration is determinative in the stock selection process.
The Fund's portfolio will be evaluated for its exposures to quantitative factors, such as, for example, valuation, profitability and volatility, to seek to enhance the Fund's risk adjusted returns. Risk management, portfolio construction and sizing of positions will be informed by
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portfolio-level quantitative factor considerations. The Investment Adviser may decide to sell a position for various reasons, including when a company's fundamental outlook deteriorates, because of valuation and price considerations, for risk management purposes, or when a company is deemed to be misallocating capital.
Although the Fund invests primarily in publicly traded U.S. securities, it may invest up to 20% of its Net Assets in foreign securities, including securities of issuers in countries with emerging markets or economies ("emerging countries") and securities quoted in foreign currencies. The Fund may also invest in privately held companies and companies that only recently began to trade publicly.
The Fund may invest up to 10% of its Net Assets in fixed income securities (including high yield fixed income securities), such as government, corporate and bank debt obligations.
The Fund is an actively managed ETF, which is a fund that trades like other publicly traded securities. The Fund is not an index fund and does not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index.
The Investment Adviser measures the Fund's performance against the S&P 500® Index.
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Principal Risks of the Fund
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Loss of money is a risk of investing in the Fund. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") or any government agency. The Fund should not be relied upon as a complete investment program. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. Investments in the Fund involve substantial risks which prospective investors should consider carefully before investing. The Fund's principal risks are presented below in alphabetical order, and not in the order of importance or potential exposure.
Goldman Sachs (as defined herein) and its affiliates advise accounts and funds which have investment objectives, investment strategies and/or policies similar to those of the Fund, and such accounts and funds will have portfolio holdings that overlap with the Fund. Due to differences in tax management considerations and implementation techniques, trades of the Fund's portfolio are generally executed after those of such accounts and funds. As a result, the Fund's investment results may be higher or lower, and potentially significantly lower, than those of such accounts and funds.
Foreign and Emerging Countries Risk. Foreign securities may be subject to risk of loss because of more or less foreign government regulation; less public information; less stringent investor protections; less stringent accounting, corporate governance, financial reporting and disclosure standards; and less economic, political and social stability in the countries in which the Fund invests. The imposition of sanctions, exchange controls (including repatriation restrictions), confiscations, trade restrictions (including tariffs) and other government restrictions by the United States and other governments, or from problems in share registration, settlement or custody, may also result in losses. The type and severity of sanctions and other similar measures, including counter sanctions and other retaliatory actions, that may be imposed could vary broadly in scope, and their impact is impossible to predict. For example, the imposition of sanctions and other similar measures could, among other things, cause a decline in the value and/or liquidity of securities issued by the sanctioned country or companies located in or economically tied to the sanctioned country and increase market volatility and disruption in the sanctioned country and throughout the world. Sanctions and other similar measures could limit or prevent the
Fund from buying and selling securities (in the sanctioned country and other markets), significantly delay or prevent the settlement of securities transactions, and significantly impact the Fund's liquidity and performance. Foreign risk also involves the risk of negative foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, which may cause the value of securities denominated in such foreign currency (or other instruments through which the Fund has exposure to foreign currencies) to decline in value. Currency exchange rates may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time. These risks are more pronounced in connection with the Fund's investments in securities of issuers located in, or otherwise economically tied to, emerging countries.
Investment Style Risk. Different investment styles (e.g., "growth", "value" or "quantitative") tend to shift in and out of favor depending upon market and economic conditions and investor sentiment. The Fund may outperform or underperform other funds that invest in similar asset classes but employ different investment styles. Growth investing is an example of an investment style.Growth companies are often expected by investors to increase their earnings at a certain rate. When these expectations are not met, investors can punish the stocks inordinately even if earnings showed an absolute increase.
Large Shareholder Risk. Certain shareholders, including other funds advised by the Investment Adviser, may from time to time own a substantial amount of the Fund's Shares. In addition, a third party investor, the Investment Adviser or an affiliate of the Investment Adviser, an authorized participant, a lead market maker, or another entity (i.e., a seed investor) may invest in the Fund and hold its investment solely to facilitate commencement of the Fund or to facilitate the Fund's achieving a specified size or scale. Any such investment may be held for a limited period of time.There can be no assurance that any large shareholder would not redeem its investment, that the size of the Fund would be maintained at such levels or that the Fund would continue to meet applicable listing requirements. Redemptions by large shareholders could have a significant negative impact on the Fund, including on the Fund's liquidity. In addition, transactions by large shareholders may account for a large percentage of the trading volume on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC ("NASDAQ") and may, therefore, have a material upward or downward effect on the market price of the Shares.
Market Risk. The value of the securities in which the Fund invests may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies, particular sectors, governments or countries and/or general economic conditions throughout the world due to increasingly interconnected global economies and financial markets. Events such as war, military conflict, geopolitical disputes, acts of terrorism, social or political unrest, natural disasters, recessions, inflation, rapid interest rate changes, supply chain disruptions, tariffs and other restrictions on trade, sanctions or the spread of infectious illness or other public health threats, or the threat or potential of one or more such events and developments, could also significantly impact the Fund and its investments.
Market Trading Risk. The net asset value ("NAV") of the Fund and the value of your investment may fluctuate. Market prices of Shares may fluctuate, in some cases significantly, in response to the Fund's NAV, the intraday value of the Fund's holdings and supply and demand for Shares. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of extreme market volatility or potential lack of an active trading market for Shares. Any of these factors, among others, may result in Shares trading at a significant premium or discount to NAV, which will be reflected in the intraday bid/ask spreads and/or the closing price of Shares as compared to NAV. If a shareholder purchases Shares at a time when the market price is at a premium to the NAV or sells Shares at a time when the
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market price is at a discount to the NAV, the shareholder may pay more for, or receive less than, the underlying value of the Shares, respectively. Additionally, in stressed market conditions, the market for Shares may become less liquid in response to deteriorating liquidity in the markets for the Fund's underlying portfolio holdings.
The securities held by the Fund may be traded in markets that close at a different time than the stock exchange on which the Fund's Shares are listed. Liquidity in those securities may be reduced after the applicable closing times. Accordingly, during the time when the Fund's listing exchange is open but after the applicable market closing, fixing or settlement times, bid-ask spreads and the resulting premium or discount to the Shares' NAV may widen.
Mid-Cap and Small-Cap Risk. Investments in mid-capitalization and small-capitalization companies involve greater risks than those associated with larger, more established companies. These securities may be subject to more abrupt or erratic price movements and may lack sufficient market liquidity, and these issuers often face greater business risks.
Stock Risk. Stock prices have historically risen and fallen in periodic cycles. U.S. and foreign stock markets have experienced periods of substantial price volatility in the past and may do so again in the future.
Valuation Risk. The sale price the Fund could receive for a security may differ from the Fund's valuation of the security, particularly for securities that trade in low volume or volatile markets or that are valued using a fair value methodology. Because non-U.S. exchanges may be open on days when the Fund does not price its Shares, the value of foreign securities or assets in the Fund's portfolio may change on days when investors will not be able to purchase or sell the Fund's Shares. The Fund relies on various sources to calculate its NAV. The information may be provided by third parties that are believed to be reliable, but the information may not be accurate due to errors by such pricing sources, technological issues or otherwise. NAV calculation may also be impacted by operational risks arising from factors such as failures in systems and technology.
The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. Before the Fund commenced operations, the assets of another investment company advised by the Investment Adviser, Goldman Sachs Enhanced U.S. Equity Fund (the "predecessor fund"), were transferred to the Fund in a tax-free reorganization on November 14, 2025. The Fund and the predecessor fund have identical investment objectives and fundamental investment policies and have substantially similar investment strategies. The performance of the predecessor fund has not been restated to reflect the annual operating
expenses of the Fund, which are lower than those of the predecessor fund. Because the Fund has different fees and expenses than the predecessor fund, the Fund would also have had different performance results.
The bar chart and table show: (a) changes in the performance of the Fund's Shares (represented by the performance of the predecessor fund's Institutional Shares) from year to year; and (b) how the average annual total returns of the Fund (represented by the average annual total returns of the predecessor fund's Institutional Shares) compare to those of a broad-based securities market index. Prior to August 31, 2017, the Fund had been known as the Goldman Sachs Flexible Cap Growth Fund, and certain of its principal investment strategies differed. From September 1, 2017 through April 25, 2025, the predecessor fund had been known as the Goldman Sachs Enhanced Core Equity Fund, and certain of its principal investment strategies differed. Performance information set forth below during such periods reflects the performance resulting from the predecessor fund's former strategies during the periods. The Fund's (and the predecessor fund's) past performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available at no cost at am.gs.com or by calling the appropriate phone number on the back cover of the Prospectus.
Performance reflects applicable fee waivers and/or expense limitations in effect during the periods shown.
CALENDAR YEAR (INSTITUTIONAL)
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Returns
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Quarter ended
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Year-to-Date Return
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11.01%
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September 30, 2025
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During the periods shown in the chart above:
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Returns
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Quarter ended
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Best Quarter Return
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21.54%
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June 30, 2020
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Worst Quarter Return
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-18.70%
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March 31, 2020
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AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURN
For the period ended December 31, 2024
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1 Year
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5 Years
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10 Years
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Institutional Shares
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1/31/2008
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Returns Before Taxes
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22.97%
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15.12%
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13.35%
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Returns After Taxes on Distributions
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22.26%
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13.97%
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11.56%
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Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
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13.99%
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11.84%
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10.38%
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S&P 500® Index
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24.94%
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14.51%
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13.09%
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Benchmark returns do not reflect any deductions for fees or expenses.
After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. In addition, the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold Fund Shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
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Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. is the investment adviser for the Fund.
Portfolio Managers: Kevin Martens, Managing Director; Jenny Chang, Managing Director; and Raj Garigipati, Managing Director, have managed the Fund since 2025. Mr. Martens and Ms. Chang were the predecessor fund's portfolio managers since 2024.
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Buying and Selling Fund Shares
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Individual Shares of the Fund may only be purchased and sold in secondary market transactions through a broker or dealer at market price. Because Shares trade at market prices, rather than NAV, Shares of the Fund may trade at a price greater than NAV (i.e., a premium) or less than NAV (i.e., a discount).
You may incur costs attributable to the difference between the highest price a buyer is willing to pay for Shares (bid) and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept for Shares (ask) (the "bid-ask spread") when buying or selling Shares in the secondary market.
Recent information, including information about the Fund's NAV, market price, premiums and discounts, and bid-ask spreads (when available), is included on the Fund's website at am.gs.com.
The Fund's distributions are taxable, and will be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. Investments made through tax-deferred arrangements may become taxable upon withdrawal from such arrangements.
Payments to Broker-Dealers and
Other Financial Intermediaries
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If you purchase shares of the Fund through an Intermediary, the Fund and/or its related companies may pay the Intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the Intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your Intermediary's website for more information.
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