Xtrackers Russell US Multifactor ETF
$64.56−0.24 (−0.37%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.17%
- Fund size
- $292M
- 1Y return
- +13.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.43%
- Holdings
- 864
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $64.89
- 52W range
The ETF.net DEUS Grade
Score 73 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 76Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 84Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 76Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 50Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 82Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 49Category rank
Our read on DEUS
AFour factors (value, momentum, quality, low volatility) blended into a single Russell 1000 portfolio of roughly 900 stocks, for 0.17% a year. One ticket instead of four separate factor sleeves.
The fund uses a passive indexing approach to seek returns that generally correspond, before fees and expenses, to the Russell 1000 Comprehensive Factor Index.
Why people hold it
- 0.17% a year undercuts the typical multifactor fund, and comes in under blend-style peers like FNDX at 0.25%.
- One wrapper carries four tilts at once: value, momentum, quality and low volatility, tracked through the Russell 1000 Comprehensive Factor Index.
- Roughly 900 US names, so no single stock carries the thesis. Pays quarterly.
- Live since 2015, and it sits in the upper half of a crowded multifactor peer group.
Worth knowing
- Trades lightly next to the category's giants. Limit orders and a glance at the spread matter more here than with a mega-fund.
- Blending four factors dilutes each one. A single-factor fund gives a more concentrated dose of whichever tilt you actually want.
- Looking different from a plain cap-weighted Russell 1000 is the design, so the portfolio can diverge from the headline index in either direction.
DEUS Holdings
- Stocks
- 864
- 7%
- ALL
Sectors
- Industrials16.2%
- Financials14.3%
- Health Care13.9%
- Technology11.2%
- Consumer Discr.10.4%
- Cons. Staples7.6%
- Utilities6.7%
- Energy6.2%
- Real Estate5.3%
- Materials5.0%
- Communication3.2%
Geography
- United States95.61%
- Ireland1.45%
- Bermuda1.34%
- United Kingdom0.55%
- Switzerland0.50%
- Luxembourg0.24%
- Netherlands0.13%
- Puerto Rico0.07%
- 0.11%
DEUS 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 | DEUS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.3% |
| 1 month | −4.2% |
| 3 months | +0.3% |
| 1 year | +13.9% |
| 3 years | +16.2% |
| 5 years | +9.4% |
| 10 years | +11.1% |
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 | DEUS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.3% | |
| 2025 | +10.4% | |
| 2024 | +14.3% | |
| 2023 | +14.8% | |
| 2022 | −11.2% | |
| 2021 | +26.3% | |
| 2020 | +8.9% |
DEUS in the news
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DEUS Dividends
- 1.43%
- $0.93
- $0.25 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.24 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.20 |
DEUS Risk
- 12.6%
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.
- 0.88
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.
- −20.9%
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.
- 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.
DEUS Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
23 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.