Avantis U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF
$91.12−2.93 (−3.12%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $1.5B
- 1Y return
- +23.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.98%
- Holdings
- 850
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $91.64
- 52W range
The ETF.net AVLC Grade
Score 86 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 96Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 66Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 89Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 86Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on AVLC
AActive management with index-fund manners: roughly 900 U.S. large caps, with the dial turned toward cheaper, more profitable companies. Avantis charges 0.15% a year to do it.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation. It invests broadly in U.S. large-capitalization companies while using active decisions to overweight lower valuations and higher profitability.
Why people hold it
- 0.15% a year against a 0.65% median for active U.S. equity funds. That is passive-style pricing on an actively run book.
- Holds about 900 names against the Russell 1000, so the value and profitability tilts sit on top of broad market exposure instead of a concentrated bet.res.avantisinvestors.com
- One of the stronger builds in the active U.S. equity group, priced in the same neighborhood as the Dimensional core funds (DFAU, DFAC) it competes with.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades steadily, so spreads and liquidity are rarely the sticking point. Distributions are paid quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Launched in 2023. The tilt philosophy is well worn at Avantis, but this fund's own live record is still short.
- Active, not index-tracking. The Russell 1000 is a reference point, not a leash, so holdings and weights can drift from it.
- Leaning toward cheaper, higher-profitability companies means stretches where it moves differently from the plain cap-weighted market, in either direction.res.avantisinvestors.com
AVLC Holdings
- Stocks
- 850
- 31%
- AAPL
Sectors
- Technology33.0%
- Financials14.9%
- Industrials10.2%
- Consumer Discr.10.1%
- Health Care8.4%
- Communication7.5%
- Energy7.0%
- Cons. Staples4.6%
- Materials2.2%
- Utilities2.0%
- Real Estate0.1%
Geography
- United States97.00%
- Ireland0.92%
- United Kingdom0.45%
- Bermuda0.39%
- Switzerland0.37%
- Singapore0.34%
- Netherlands0.18%
- Uruguay0.08%
- 0.27%
AVLC 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 | AVLC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +20.4% |
| 1 month | +2.9% |
| 3 months | +5.0% |
| 1 year | +23.8% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | AVLC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +20.4% | |
| 2025 | +17.6% | |
| 2024 | +22.8% | |
| 2023 | +12.8% |
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AVLC Dividends
- 0.98%
- $0.92
- $0.19 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Jun 11, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Mar 12, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 25, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.21 |
AVLC Risk
- 12.9%
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.
- 1.42
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.
- −19.6%
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.
- 1.02
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AVLC Cost
- The middle half of US Active Equity funds
- Median 0.70%
5 of the 124 US Active Equity funds charge less.