WisdomTree Dynamic International SmallCap Equity ETF
$45.78−0.83 (−1.79%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.48%
- Fund size
- $432M
- 1Y return
- +14.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.49%
- Holdings
- 1033
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.15
- 52W range
The ETF.net DDLS Grade
Score 50 of 100 sits in the C 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.CScore 40Category 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.AScore 72Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 53Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 50Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 49Category rank
Our read on DDLS
CMost international small-cap funds pick a lane on currency: fully exposed or fully hedged. DDLS takes a third path, screening developed-market small caps outside the US and Canada for dividend payers, then moving its dollar hedge by rule.
The fund seeks exposure to small-capitalization, dividend-paying companies in the industrialized world outside the United States and Canada, with dynamic hedging of applicable foreign-currency fluctuations against the U.S. dollar.
Why people hold it
- The hedge is the point: a rules-based currency overlay that shifts with the dollar, not the fixed always-on or always-off setting most rivals hand you.wisdomtree.com
- Roughly 1,000 dividend-paying small caps across the industrialized world outside the US and Canada. Broad by design, and it distributes quarterly.
- Running since 2016, so the strategy has worked through several dollar up-and-down stretches rather than one convenient regime.
- Follows a named WisdomTree index rather than a manager's discretion, so the dividend screen and the hedge both operate on published rules.
Worth knowing
- At 0.48% it sits above the 0.40% category median, and far above plain-index peers like VSS and SCHC at 0.06%. The hedging machinery is not free.
- Thinly traded next to the category's household names, so execution deserves more attention than with the biggest index funds here.
- The hedge cuts both ways: it damps currency-driven losses and also gives up the tailwind a weakening dollar hands unhedged international funds.wisdomtree.com
DDLS Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,033
- 6%
- HAFNI.OL
Sectors
- Industrials27.7%
- Financials14.5%
- Consumer Discr.12.9%
- Materials9.6%
- Technology8.3%
- Cons. Staples7.9%
- Real Estate6.8%
- Communication4.4%
- Health Care3.6%
- Energy2.4%
- Utilities1.9%
Geography
- Japan29.51%
- United Kingdom13.58%
- Australia9.14%
- Sweden6.43%
- Norway5.88%
- Israel5.62%
- Singapore5.28%
- France3.48%
- 21.08%
Developed 93% · Emerging 7%
DDLS 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 | DDLS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.5% |
| 1 month | +1.4% |
| 3 months | +4.3% |
| 1 year | +14.4% |
| 3 years | +18.9% |
| 5 years | +10.1% |
| 10 years | +10.0% |
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 | DDLS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.5% | |
| 2025 | +28.0% | |
| 2024 | +10.2% | |
| 2023 | +15.2% | |
| 2022 | −10.1% | |
| 2021 | +17.7% | |
| 2020 | −3.0% |
DDLS in the news
ETF.net Research hasn’t filed on DDLS yet — coverage lands here as it’s written.
DDLS Dividends
- 3.49%
- $1.63
- $0.77 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.77 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.43 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.75 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.40 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.24 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.24 |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Sep 28, 2023 | $0.34 |
DDLS Risk
- 10.4%
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.
- 1.23
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.
- −19.0%
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.
- 0.77
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DDLS Cost
- The middle half of International Small-Cap funds
- Median 0.44%
9 of the 16 International Small-Cap funds charge less.