WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend Fund
$63.76−1.12 (−1.73%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.58%
- Fund size
- $1.7B
- 1Y return
- +15.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.72%
- Holdings
- 1097
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $64.11
- 52W range
The ETF.net DGS Grade
Score 63 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 51Category 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.DScore 35Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 43Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 85Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 66Category rank
Our read on DGS
BMost emerging-market dividend funds crowd into the giants. DGS goes the other way: roughly 1,100 dividend-paying small caps across the developing world, a corner it has worked since 2007.
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of dividend-paying small-cap companies in the emerging markets region.
Why people hold it
- The down-cap tilt is the whole point. It screens for dividend payers among emerging-market small caps, a slice the large-cap EM dividend funds mostly skip.
- Roughly 1,100 holdings spread the single-stock risk that usually comes with small caps, and payouts land quarterly.
- Fee runs a shade under the typical emerging-market dividend fund at 0.58%, on a multi-billion-dollar fund that has been trading since 2007.
- Sticks tight to its stated index, one of the cleaner implementations in its emerging-market dividend peer group.
Worth knowing
- Emerging-market small caps are a bumpy ride: local currency moves and single-country shocks hit harder here than in a large-cap EM fund.
- It trades thin next to headline EM funds, so spreads are part of the cost. Limit orders and calm market hours matter more than usual.
- 0.58% is not cheap in absolute terms. Broad EM dividend exposure is available for less, such as DIEM at 0.19%, though without the small-cap focus.
DGS Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,097
- 10%
- 3481.TW
Geography
- Taiwan26.94%
- South Korea12.68%
- China9.47%
- South Africa9.20%
- India8.43%
- Brazil5.87%
- Malaysia5.35%
- Thailand5.28%
- 16.79%
Developed 0% · Emerging 100%
DGS 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 | DGS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.2% |
| 1 month | +2.4% |
| 3 months | −0.9% |
| 1 year | +15.2% |
| 3 years | +15.0% |
| 5 years | +7.8% |
| 10 years | +8.4% |
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 | DGS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.2% | |
| 2025 | +21.2% | |
| 2024 | +1.2% | |
| 2023 | +19.1% | |
| 2022 | −12.3% | |
| 2021 | +15.3% | |
| 2020 | +4.1% |
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DGS Dividends
- 3.72%
- $2.41
- $0.84 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.84 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.58 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.80 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.53 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.61 |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.68 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.46 |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Sep 28, 2023 | $0.78 |
DGS Risk
- 13.0%
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.
- 0.76
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.
- −24.6%
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.
- 0.92
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DGS Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.59%
4 of the 10 Emerging Markets Dividend Index funds charge less.