Capital Group Dividend Growers ETF
$37.63−0.34 (−0.90%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.47%
- Fund size
- $5.7B
- 1Y return
- +12.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.26%
- Holdings
- 101
- Volume · 30D
- 0.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $37.88
- 52W range
The ETF.net CGDG 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 88Category 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 59Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 78Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 85Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 82Category rank
Our read on CGDG
ACapital Group's stock pickers hunt dividend growers anywhere on the map, developed markets and emerging ones alike, and charge less than the typical active global fund to do it. Roughly 100 names, income paid quarterly.
CGDG seeks long-term total returns by investing in companies worldwide with the potential to provide attractive yield and dividend growth over the long term.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.47% a year, below the going rate for actively managed global equity ETFs. Cheap for a hand-picked portfolio, even if index products undercut it.
- The mandate is genuinely worldwide, developed and emerging markets both in scope, and it screens for dividend growth potential rather than chasing the fattest current yield.
- About 100 holdings, concentrated enough that individual picks carry real weight instead of getting diluted into an index-shaped blob. Distributions land quarterly.
- Rates among the strongest funds in a crowded global active-equity group, and one of the few there built specifically around dividend growers.
Worth knowing
- Launched in 2023, so there's no decade of results to judge this team's approach through a full market cycle.
- Several highly rated global peers (GSWO, DFAW, AVGE) charge less. The extra fee here buys active selection, not broader coverage.
- Emerging-market holdings bring currency swings and country-specific risk that a US-only dividend fund doesn't carry.
CGDG Holdings
- Stocks
- 101
- 25%
- TSM
Sectors
- Financials21.5%
- Technology15.3%
- Industrials11.3%
- Health Care10.9%
- Cons. Staples10.4%
- Energy7.1%
- Consumer Discr.6.7%
- Utilities6.6%
- Materials4.8%
- Real Estate3.5%
- Communication1.7%
Geography
- United States50.93%
- United Kingdom9.62%
- France6.71%
- Japan5.52%
- Taiwan4.48%
- Switzerland3.72%
- Spain2.87%
- Germany2.59%
- 13.56%
Developed 86% · Emerging 14%
CGDG 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 | CGDG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.1% |
| 1 month | −2.4% |
| 3 months | +2.5% |
| 1 year | +12.6% |
| 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 | CGDG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.1% | |
| 2025 | +22.7% | |
| 2024 | +11.5% | |
| 2023 | +9.5% |
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CGDG Dividends
- 2.26%
- $0.86
- $0.39 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Apr 1, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Oct 1, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Jul 1, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Apr 1, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Mar 28, 2024 | Apr 2, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.11 |
CGDG Risk
- 8.7%
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.
- 1.52
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.
- −10.5%
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.
- 0.49
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CGDG Cost
- The middle half of Global Active Dividend Income funds
- Median 0.50%
No Global Active Dividend Income fund charges less.