Dimensional Emerging Markets Sustainability Core 1 ETF
$48.80−0.86 (−1.74%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.44%
- Fund size
- $653M
- 1Y return
- +22.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.83%
- Holdings
- 4263
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $49.25
- 52W range
The ETF.net DFSE Grade
Score 65 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.DScore 37Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 50Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 68Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 87Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 62Category rank
Our read on DFSE
BDimensional's answer to emerging-markets ESG: own almost everything. Roughly 4,300 stocks across the developing world, tilted toward profitability and value, with sustainability considerations shaping the weights.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through a broad, diversified portfolio of emerging-markets companies, with sustainability considerations affecting portfolio composition.
Why people hold it
- Roughly 4,300 holdings across emerging markets. A whole-market net rather than a shortlist of screened leaders.
- The screen sits on top of a factor engine. Dimensional tilts toward profitable and cheaper companies, then layers its sustainability considerations onto that base.
- What's inside tracks closely with what the prospectus describes: broad emerging-markets equity, shaped by sustainability criteria, with little off-mandate drift.
Worth knowing
- At 0.44%, it prices above the category median and well above index-based peers like LDEM (0.16%) and ESGE (0.25%). Breadth and factor tilts carry a fee.
- Thinly traded. On small orders the bid-ask spread can weigh more than the expense ratio does.
- Launched in 2022, so the live record is short. Distributions come quarterly, not monthly.
DFSE Holdings
- Stocks
- 4,263
- 24%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Technology36.8%
- Financials18.3%
- Industrials10.9%
- Consumer Discr.9.6%
- Communication5.8%
- Materials5.6%
- Health Care4.7%
- Cons. Staples3.3%
- Real Estate2.2%
- Utilities1.6%
- Energy1.3%
Geography
- Taiwan28.52%
- South Korea20.05%
- China16.98%
- India11.35%
- Brazil4.03%
- Hong Kong2.66%
- South Africa2.39%
- Saudi Arabia2.06%
- 11.95%
Developed 4% · Emerging 96%
DFSE 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 | DFSE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +20.5% |
| 1 month | +2.2% |
| 3 months | −2.0% |
| 1 year | +22.3% |
| 3 years | +20.9% |
| 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 | DFSE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +20.5% | |
| 2025 | +28.2% | |
| 2024 | +6.9% | |
| 2023 | +14.7% | |
| 2022 | +11.6% |
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DFSE Dividends
- 1.83%
- $0.91
- $0.27 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Sep 19, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Jun 20, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.14 |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 | $0.33 |
DFSE Risk
- 14.7%
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.
- 0.98
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.
- −19.8%
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.
- 1.09
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DFSE Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.33%
7 of the 12 Emerging Markets ESG & Values Index funds charge less.