Avantis U.S. Quality ETF
$67.97−0.60 (−0.88%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $347M
- 1Y return
- +14.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.36%
- Holdings
- 562
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $68.39
- 52W range
The ETF.net AVUQ Grade
Score 56 of 100 sits in the B 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 87Category 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.FScore 22Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 56Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 26Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 42Category rank
Our read on AVUQ
BMost quality ETFs screen a large-cap index and call it a day. AVUQ is Avantis running an active, all-cap book of roughly 600 U.S. growth names, judging them on profitability and price together, for 0.15% a year.
Seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in high-quality U.S. growth companies across all market capitalizations and selecting and weighting them using relative profitability and valuations to seek higher expected returns.
Why people hold it
- 0.15% a year puts it level with the household names in quality factor investing (QUAL, FQAL) and under a good chunk of the peer group.
- Price is part of the quality test. The fund selects and weights on relative profitability and valuation together, so expensive profit machines get less room.res.avantisinvestors.com
- All-cap by design: roughly 600 holdings reaching into mid and small companies, where quality index funds usually stop at the large-cap tier.
- Actively managed rather than locked to a benchmark, so the portfolio can be adjusted continuously instead of waiting on a set index reconstitution date.res.avantisinvestors.com
Worth knowing
- Launched in 2025, so there is not yet a full market cycle to judge it by. Older rivals in the quality aisle have years of behavior on the tape.
- It measures itself against a growth index (MSCI USA IMI Growth), so the sector mix leans growth rather than the broad market blend some quality funds hold.
- Volume is light next to the category's giants, so limit orders matter more than they would in a heavily traded fund.
AVUQ Holdings
- Stocks
- 562
- 54%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology48.9%
- Consumer Discr.13.4%
- Communication11.9%
- Industrials7.5%
- Health Care6.5%
- Financials4.9%
- Cons. Staples2.8%
- Energy2.6%
- Materials0.9%
- Utilities0.5%
- Real Estate0.1%
Geography
- United States98.06%
- Singapore0.80%
- Ireland0.33%
- United Kingdom0.32%
- Bermuda0.31%
- Canada0.13%
- Sweden0.03%
- Israel0.01%
- 0.01%
AVUQ 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 | AVUQ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.2% |
| 1 month | +2.8% |
| 3 months | +4.5% |
| 1 year | +14.8% |
| 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 | AVUQ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.2% | |
| 2025 | +22.5% |
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AVUQ Dividends
- 0.36%
- $0.24
- $0.04 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Jun 11, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Mar 12, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.10 |
AVUQ Risk
- 14.5%
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.
- 1.39
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.
- −11.9%
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.
- 1.17
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AVUQ Cost
- The middle half of US Quality Index funds
- Median 0.38%
2 of the 27 US Quality Index funds charge less.