WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Fund
$38.74−0.12 (−0.31%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $2.1B
- 1Y return
- +17.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.36%
- Holdings
- 586
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $38.89
- 52W range
The ETF.net DES Grade
Score 59 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.CScore 52Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 85Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 23Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 49Category 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 71Category rank
Our read on DES
BMost dividend ETFs crowd into the same mega-cap payers. DES points the dividend screen at the other end of the market: small U.S. companies that actually write checks, on a WisdomTree index running since 2006.
The fund seeks to track dividend-paying small-cap companies in the U.S. equity market.
Why people hold it
- Rare mandate: a dividend screen aimed at U.S. small caps rather than the mega-cap payer roster nearly every rival dividend fund owns.
- Launched in 2006, one of the older dividend ETFs still running, and now a multi-billion-dollar fund with a long unbroken record through several market cycles.
- Pays monthly, not the quarterly cadence most dividend funds stick to.
- Spread across about 600 names, so one small-cap blowup does not steer the whole portfolio. Diversification is among the stronger features here.
Worth knowing
- 0.38% a year sits right around the middle of the dividend-screen crowd, and large-cap options like SCHD (0.06%) and VIG (0.04%) charge a fraction of it.
- Small-cap payers move harder than blue chips, so this is the bumpier corner of the dividend aisle.
- Volume is moderate rather than heavy, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than in the biggest dividend ETFs.
DES Holdings
- Stocks
- 586
- 10%
- TFSL
Sectors
- Financials26.4%
- Consumer Discr.15.0%
- Industrials13.7%
- Energy11.8%
- Real Estate9.4%
- Materials6.0%
- Technology5.2%
- Utilities4.2%
- Cons. Staples3.3%
- Communication2.6%
- Health Care2.3%
Geography
- United States99.42%
- Singapore0.40%
- Puerto Rico0.18%
DES 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 | DES |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.6% |
| 1 month | −4.6% |
| 3 months | −0.8% |
| 1 year | +17.1% |
| 3 years | +14.2% |
| 5 years | +7.8% |
| 10 years | +7.3% |
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 | DES |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.6% | |
| 2025 | +0.3% | |
| 2024 | +9.7% | |
| 2023 | +15.9% | |
| 2022 | −11.0% | |
| 2021 | +26.5% | |
| 2020 | −4.3% |
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DES Dividends
- 2.36%
- $0.92
- $0.08 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.15 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.01 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.0086 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.13 |
DES Risk
- 17.5%
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.
- 0.55
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.
- −25.3%
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.
- 0.90
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DES Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
23 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.