Avantis All Equity Markets ETF
$99.48−0.93 (−0.92%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.23%
- Fund size
- $1.2B
- 1Y return
- +22.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.72%
- Holdings
- 14
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $100.38
- 52W range
The ETF.net AVGE Grade
Score 79 of 100 sits in the A band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 98Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 76Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 71Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 81Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 35Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 79Category rank
Our read on AVGE
AOne ticker, the whole world's stock market. AVGE is Avantis in a single line: a wrapper around its own US, developed and emerging funds, tilted toward companies it expects to beat a plain cap-weighted index.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through a broadly diversified equity portfolio. It invests directly or through Avantis ETFs and emphasizes companies expected to offer higher returns or better risk characteristics than a passive, market-cap-weighted index.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.25% a year for US, developed international and emerging market stocks in one line item, well under the typical fund in its active global peer group.
- The tilt is systematic, not stock-picking: it emphasizes companies expected to offer higher returns or better risk characteristics than a passive, market-cap-weighted index.
- It can invest directly or through Avantis ETFs, so the regional mix is handled inside the fund rather than by you. Distributions arrive quarterly.
- Sits among the strongest implementations in the global active equity group, and priced in the same neighborhood as the cheapest of them, DFAW at 0.24%.
Worth knowing
- Built to differ from a cap-weighted world index, which means stretches where it moves apart from plain global trackers come with the design.
- You are buying Avantis's judgment on regional and company weights. There is no public rules-based index to check the portfolio against.
- Launched in 2022, so the live record is short next to decades-old global funds, and trading is moderate rather than heavy.
AVGE Holdings
- Stocks
- 14
- 95%
- AVUS
Sectors
- Financials20.1%
- Technology20.0%
- Industrials12.8%
- Consumer Discr.11.5%
- Energy8.6%
- Health Care6.4%
- Communication6.1%
- Materials4.9%
- Cons. Staples4.5%
- Real Estate3.3%
- Utilities1.8%
Geography
- United States100.00%
AVGE Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | AVGE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +18.1% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | +1.2% |
| 1 year | +22.5% |
| 3 years | +21.7% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | AVGE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +18.1% | |
| 2025 | +20.8% | |
| 2024 | +14.0% | |
| 2023 | +19.1% | |
| 2022 | +11.2% |
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AVGE Dividends
- 1.72%
- $1.72
- $0.33 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | Sep 14, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Jun 15, 2026 | $0.49 |
| Mar 12, 2026 | Mar 16, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $0.73 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.70 |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Dec 23, 2024 | $0.76 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.63 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | $0.68 |
| Jun 22, 2023 | Jun 27, 2023 | $0.57 |
| Dec 19, 2022 | Dec 22, 2022 | $0.41 |
AVGE Risk
- 12.5%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.20
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −17.1%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AVGE Cost
- The middle half of Global Active Equity funds
- Median 0.69%
No Global Active Equity fund charges less.