Dimensional - Emerging Markets Value ETF
$42.66−0.75 (−1.73%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.46%
- Fund size
- $2.2B
- 1Y return
- +37.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.98%
- Holdings
- 3164
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $43.07
- 52W range
The ETF.net DFEV Grade
Score 61 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 53Category 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.CScore 52Category 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 75Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 66Category rank
Our read on DFEV
BDimensional's emerging-markets value playbook in an ETF wrapper: roughly 3,200 stocks screened for low relative price, run actively but with index-like breadth, at a fee just under the peer norm.
The ETF seeks long-term capital appreciation. It uses an integrated, actively managed approach to invest in emerging-market equity securities selected for value characteristics while diversifying across countries, sectors, and companies.
Why people hold it
- Holds roughly 3,200 emerging-market stocks spread across countries and sectors, so no single name or market drives the result.
- 0.46% expense ratio, slightly below the median for its multifactor EM peer group, which is uncommon for an actively managed strategy.
- Active by design: managers buy on low relative price and can act between index rebalance dates rather than on someone else's calendar.
- Launched in 2022 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund; distributions are paid quarterly.
Worth knowing
- A value screen means deliberately owning less of the pricier growth names, so the ride can look very different from a plain emerging-markets index.
- Cheaper doors to the same factor exist: AVES charges 0.36% and EMGF 0.26%.
- Moderately traded rather than a category heavyweight, which can matter on large orders or choppy sessions.
DFEV Holdings
- Stocks
- 3,164
- 18%
- 000660.KS
Sectors
- Technology29.5%
- Financials24.9%
- Industrials10.0%
- Materials9.4%
- Consumer Discr.7.8%
- Energy7.7%
- Cons. Staples2.6%
- Health Care2.5%
- Communication2.5%
- Real Estate2.2%
- Utilities0.8%
Geography
- Taiwan29.86%
- South Korea20.80%
- China16.96%
- India11.39%
- Brazil3.33%
- South Africa3.02%
- Saudi Arabia2.10%
- Hong Kong1.70%
- 10.84%
Developed 2% · Emerging 98%
DFEV 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 | DFEV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +29.5% |
| 1 month | +3.5% |
| 3 months | −2.3% |
| 1 year | +37.4% |
| 3 years | +25.0% |
| 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 | DFEV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +29.5% | |
| 2025 | +32.5% | |
| 2024 | +7.3% | |
| 2023 | +15.5% | |
| 2022 | −6.7% |
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DFEV Dividends
- 1.98%
- $0.86
- $0.24 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.39 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Sep 19, 2024 | $0.38 |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Jun 20, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.15 |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 | $0.52 |
DFEV Risk
- 15.1%
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.
- 1.21
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.
- −18.5%
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.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DFEV Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Multifactor funds
- Median 0.47%
9 of the 20 Emerging Markets Multifactor funds charge less.