# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001591939
**File Stem:** 0000894189-25-014096
**Filing Date:** 2025-11
**Character Count:** 4499
**Document Hash:** 3e61e977a1e08c2ec621d9e6904e56de
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000894189-25-014096.hdr.sgml**: 20251120

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000894189-25-014096

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-A12B

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251120

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251120

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Absolute Shares Trust
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001591939

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0630

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-A12B
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-36606
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251502094

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O WBI INVESTMENTS, INC.
- **STREET 2:** 331 NEWMAN SPRINGS ROAD, SUITE 105
- **CITY:** RED BANK
- **STATE:** NJ
- **ZIP:** 07701
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 732-842-4920

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O WBI INVESTMENTS, INC.
- **STREET 2:** 331 NEWMAN SPRINGS ROAD, SUITE 143
- **CITY:** RED BANK
- **STATE:** NJ
- **ZIP:** 07701

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 20, 2025

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-A**

**FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES PURSUANT TO** 

**SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934** 

**ABSOLUTE SHARES TRUST**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

**Delaware**

(State of incorporation or organization)

**See List Below**

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

c/o U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC

615 East Michigan Street

Milwaukee, WI 53202

(Address of registrant's principal executive offices)

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| <u>Title of each class of securities <br>to be registered</u> | <u>Name of each exchange on which each class is to be registered</u> |
| WBI Power Factor High Dividend ETF | Listed on New York Stock Exchange, LLC |

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| If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c), check the following box. | [X] |
| If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d), check the following box. | [ ] |
| Securities Act Registration file number to which this form relates: 333-192733 |  |
| Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Not applicable. |  |

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**Item 1.**&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**Description of Registrant's Securities to be Registered.**

Reference is made to Post-Effective Amendment No. 30 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (File Nos. 333-192733 and 811-22917), as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") via EDGAR (Accession No. 0000894189-25-012211) on October 28, 2025, which is incorporated herein by reference.

The Trust currently consists of 8 separate series. The series to which this filing relates and its IRS Employer Identification Number is as follows:

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| <u>Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered</u> | <u>IRS Employer ID Number</u> |
| WBI Power Factor High Dividend ETF | 81-4113430 |

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**Item 2.**&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**Exhibits**

A. <u>[Registrant's Declaration of Trust dated December 5, 2013 was filed as an exhibit to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A (File Nos. 333-192733; 811-22917), as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on August 8, 2014 (Accession Number: 0000891092-14-006020).](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1591939/000089109214006020/e59847ex99a.htm)</u>

B. <u>[Registrant's By-Laws were filed as an exhibit to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A (File Nos. 333-192733; 811-22917), as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on August 8, 2014 (Accession Number: 0000891092-14-006020).](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1591939/000089109214006020/e59847ex99b.htm)</u>

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

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| **Absolute Shares Trust** |
| November 20, 2025 |
| By: */s/ Don Schreiber, Jr.* |
| Don Schreiber, Jr.<br>Chairman, Trustee, President and<br>Principal Executive Officer |

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