Dimensional - US Small Cap Value ETF
$38.40−0.25 (−0.65%)
History starts Feb 24, 2022.
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $8.2B
- 1Y return
- +21.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.38%
- Holdings
- 1015
- Volume · 30D
- 0.9M sh
- NAV per share
- $38.63
- 52W range
The ETF.net DFSV Grade
Score 83 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 91Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 63Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 57Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 93Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 81Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 88Category rank
Our read on DFSV
ASmall-cap value, spread wide: roughly a thousand of the market's cheaper small companies, measured against the Russell 2000 Value Index. A deeper bench than most rivals carry, at a higher price than the plain index funds beside it.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Roughly 1,000 holdings spread the small-value bet across the whole opportunity set instead of a handful of names.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, so getting a position on or off is rarely the hard part.
- Portfolio construction is the strong suit here: broad, diversified small-cap value exposure, with distributions paid quarterly.
- The mandate is plainly stated: long-term capital appreciation from US stocks, no side quests.
Worth knowing
- At 0.30% a year it costs more than the typical US value ETF (median 0.18%), and VTWV runs against the same Russell 2000 Value benchmark for 0.06%.
- Small-cap value is a bumpier corner than the large-cap value funds anchoring this group (VTV, SCHV), and the ride shows it.
- Launched in 2022, so its live record is short next to the value funds it sits beside.
DFSV Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,015
- 7%
- BWA
Sectors
- Financials28.0%
- Industrials15.1%
- Consumer Discr.14.1%
- Energy13.0%
- Health Care7.4%
- Technology7.3%
- Cons. Staples5.9%
- Materials5.1%
- Communication2.7%
- Real Estate0.8%
- Utilities0.6%
Geography
- United States93.57%
- Bermuda3.50%
- Ireland0.74%
- Switzerland0.67%
- Monaco0.45%
- Puerto Rico0.34%
- United Kingdom0.29%
- Panama0.19%
- 0.25%
DFSV Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
DFSV$12,184
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 | DFSV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +18.3% |
| 1 month | −4.1% |
| 3 months | +1.5% |
| 1 year | +21.8% |
| 3 years | +17.0% |
| 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 | DFSV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +18.3% | |
| 2025 | +8.6% | |
| 2024 | +7.1% | |
| 2023 | +19.2% | |
| 2022 | +0.6% |
DFSV in the news
DFSV Dividends
- 1.38%
- $0.54
- $0.13 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Sep 19, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Jun 20, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.11 |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 | $0.10 |
DFSV Risk
- 18.6%
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.
- 0.65
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.
- −28.0%
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.
DFSV Cost
0.30%
DFSV0.30%
- The middle half of US Active Small-Cap funds
- Median 0.55%
3 of the 39 US Active Small-Cap funds charge less.