Dimensional - US Sustainability Core 1 ETF
$47.71−0.35 (−0.73%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $2.4B
- 1Y return
- +13.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.82%
- Holdings
- 1918
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $48.03
- 52W range
The ETF.net DFSU 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 70Category 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 45Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 67Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 71Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 69Category rank
Our read on DFSU
AMost US ESG funds are the S&P 500 with the worst offenders removed. DFSU is Dimensional's whole-market version: roughly 1,900 stocks, actively tilted toward cheap and profitable companies, with heavy carbon emitters cut or dialed down.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through an actively managed portfolio of U.S. companies, with sustainability considerations influencing security weights.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.15% a year against a 0.25% median for its ESG peer group. That is index-fund pricing on an actively managed portfolio.
- Roughly 1,900 holdings reach into small and mid caps. Screened S&P 500 rivals like SNPE, EFIV and XVV stop at large caps.
- The screen leads with carbon: the advisor can underweight, sell or exclude companies it views as high emitters or as holding fossil fuel reserves.sec.gov
- Dimensional runs it actively with profitability and value tilts, the same research plumbing as its non-ESG core funds. One of the stronger builds in its cohort.
Worth knowing
- Moderately traded, not a liquidity monster. Spreads can run wider than the mega-sized ESG index funds, so entry and exit costs are worth checking.
- Sustainability is the advisor's judgment call, not a published index rulebook. Exclusions and weights can shift without a public methodology change.sec.gov
- Cheaper shelf-mates exist: ESGV, XVV and SNPE all price under 0.10%. The broader, active portfolio is what the extra buys.
DFSU Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,918
- 31%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology30.6%
- Financials17.1%
- Health Care11.6%
- Consumer Discr.11.0%
- Industrials11.0%
- Communication9.2%
- Cons. Staples4.2%
- Materials2.3%
- Energy2.0%
- Utilities0.9%
- Real Estate0.2%
Geography
- United States97.21%
- Ireland1.09%
- Bermuda0.58%
- Switzerland0.48%
- United Kingdom0.37%
- Sweden0.12%
- Cayman Islands0.07%
- Puerto Rico0.04%
- 0.04%
DFSU 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 | DFSU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +11.2% |
| 1 month | −0.3% |
| 3 months | +4.1% |
| 1 year | +13.6% |
| 3 years | +21.0% |
| 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 | DFSU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +11.2% | |
| 2025 | +15.6% | |
| 2024 | +23.0% | |
| 2023 | +26.3% | |
| 2022 | +0.7% |
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DFSU Dividends
- 0.82%
- $0.39
- $0.11 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Sep 19, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Jun 20, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.12 |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 | $0.10 |
DFSU Risk
- 13.7%
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.
- 1.04
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.
- −19.9%
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.
- 1.03
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DFSU Cost
- The middle half of US ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.23%
13 of the 48 US ESG & Values Index funds charge less.