iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF
$76.61−0.34 (−0.45%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $42.7B
- 1Y return
- +16.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.94%
- Holdings
- 389
- Volume · 30D
- 1.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $77.08
- 52W range
The ETF.net DGRO Grade
Score 85 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 88Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 99Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 72Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 85Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 63Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 87Category rank
Our read on DGRO
ABlackRock's dividend-growth screen casts a wider net than most: five straight years of raises rather than ten, plus a payout-ratio cap that filters out stretched payers. About 400 US dividend raisers, large through small cap, for 0.08% a year.
The fund seeks to follow an index of U.S. equities whose dividends have grown consistently.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.08% a year, a small fraction of the typical fee among US dividend-screen ETFs.
- The screen has teeth: a qualified dividend, five years of uninterrupted dividend growth, a payout ratio under 75%, and the top decile of yielders cut before the other tests run.ishares.com
- Roughly 400 names across large, mid and small caps, weighted by the dividend dollars each company pays rather than by market cap.ishares.comindices.cib.barclays
- Tracks the Morningstar US Dividend Growth Index about as tightly as this group gets, and it's an actively traded, multi-billion-dollar fund that has run since 2014.
Worth knowing
- Chopping the highest-yielding decile is deliberate: this is built around payout growth and dividend durability, not the fattest current yield on the shelf.ishares.com
- Only dividend payers qualify, so some of the market's biggest non-paying growth companies sit outside the portfolio by rule.ishares.com
- Income arrives quarterly, not monthly, and this is plain US stock exposure: no buffer, no hedge, full equity risk.
DGRO Holdings
- Stocks
- 389
- 27%
- AAPL
Sectors
- Financials21.0%
- Health Care18.4%
- Technology17.7%
- Cons. Staples11.9%
- Industrials10.5%
- Utilities6.5%
- Consumer Discr.5.8%
- Energy5.8%
- Materials2.3%
- Communication0.1%
Geography
- United States95.37%
- Ireland3.06%
- United Kingdom0.74%
- Switzerland0.47%
- Netherlands0.16%
- Bermuda0.15%
- Puerto Rico0.04%
DGRO Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
DGRO$11,616
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 | DGRO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.4% |
| 1 month | −2.9% |
| 3 months | +3.3% |
| 1 year | +16.2% |
| 3 years | +17.9% |
| 5 years | +11.2% |
| 10 years | +13.3% |
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 | DGRO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.4% | |
| 2025 | +15.7% | |
| 2024 | +16.6% | |
| 2023 | +10.5% | |
| 2022 | −7.9% | |
| 2021 | +26.6% | |
| 2020 | +9.5% |
DGRO in the news
DGRO Dividends
- 1.94%
- $1.49
- $0.39 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.45 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.38 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.40 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.37 |
DGRO Risk
- 10.4%
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.
- 1.18
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.
- −19.3%
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.
- 0.67
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DGRO Cost
0.08%
DGRO0.08%
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
7 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.