WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Dividend Growth Fund
$57.33+0.00 (+0.01%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $391M
- 1Y return
- +15.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.14%
- Holdings
- 219
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $57.09
- 52W range
The ETF.net DGRS Grade
Score 56 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 50Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 66Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 38Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category 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 64Category rank
Our read on DGRS
BMost quality-factor ETFs go hunting among mega caps. DGRS runs WisdomTree's quality and growth screens down in U.S. small caps instead, holding roughly 220 dividend payers and distributing monthly.
The fund provides exposure to U.S. small-cap companies with dividend-growth potential through quality and growth screens.
Why people hold it
- A small-cap take on a large-cap idea: peers like SPHQ screen for quality inside the S&P 500, while DGRS applies its quality and growth screens to U.S. small companies.wisdomtree.com
- Pays monthly rather than quarterly, so income lands on a steadier rhythm.
- Roughly 220 names spread the bet across a corner of the market where a single blowup stings, and the portfolio is the fund's strongest scoring feature.
- Live since 2013, tracking a published WisdomTree index (WTSDG) through a full decade of small-cap cycles rather than a back-tested launch story.
Worth knowing
- At 0.38% a year, it costs more than the typical quality-factor ETF, where several rivals sit at a fraction of that.
- Thinly traded next to the giants of the category, so bid-ask spreads carry more weight than they would in QUAL or JQUA.
- Small-cap dividend payers swing harder than blue chips, and its risk measures land in the lower half of the quality-factor group.
DGRS Holdings
- Stocks
- 219
- 19%
- AVT
Sectors
- Financials26.4%
- Industrials19.1%
- Consumer Discr.16.3%
- Energy10.3%
- Technology8.8%
- Materials7.6%
- Cons. Staples6.4%
- Communication2.3%
- Real Estate1.9%
- Health Care0.7%
- Utilities0.2%
Geography
- United States99.83%
- Puerto Rico0.17%
DGRS 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 | DGRS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.9% |
| 1 month | −4.6% |
| 3 months | −0.8% |
| 1 year | +15.9% |
| 3 years | +14.2% |
| 5 years | +8.1% |
| 10 years | +9.0% |
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 | DGRS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.9% | |
| 2025 | −0.3% | |
| 2024 | +10.1% | |
| 2023 | +21.1% | |
| 2022 | −13.1% | |
| 2021 | +23.1% | |
| 2020 | +7.8% |
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DGRS Dividends
- 2.14%
- $1.23
- $0.08 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.16 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.0076 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.26 |
DGRS Risk
- 19.0%
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.
- 0.53
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.
- −27.8%
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.
- 0.98
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DGRS Cost
- The middle half of US Quality Index funds
- Median 0.38%
13 of the 27 US Quality Index funds charge less.