WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund
$114.44−0.33 (−0.28%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $1.6B
- 1Y return
- +18.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.33%
- Holdings
- 378
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $115.23
- 52W range
The ETF.net DHS Grade
Score 64 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 52Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 87Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 74Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 52Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 51Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on DHS
BFrom the shop that made dividend weighting a thing. Since 2006, DHS has ranked US payers by yield, then weighted the survivors by the actual dollars of dividends they pay. Market cap never enters the math.
The fund seeks to track the investment results of high-dividend-yielding companies in the U.S. equity market.
Why people hold it
- Weighting runs on cash dividends paid, tilted by a value, quality and momentum risk score. Big payers get big weights, shaky ones get trimmed.wisdomtree.com
- Only the top 30% of eligible US payers by yield make the cut, and a name stays until it slips out of the top 35%. Deep screen, low churn.sec.gov
- Pays monthly, holds about 400 names, and caps sector weight at the lesser of 25% or 3x the market-cap version so no single yield-heavy sector runs the show.wisdomtree.com
- A 2006 original in the dividend-screen category, now a multi-billion-dollar fund still running the mandate it launched with.
Worth knowing
- The 0.38% fee sits at the middle of the dividend-screen pack, but the cheapest peers here (VIG at 0.04%, SCHD at 0.06%) charge a fraction of it.
- Trades thinly next to the category giants, so limit orders matter more here than in a fund that changes hands constantly.
- By design it buys today's highest yielders, not tomorrow's dividend growers. A different flavor of income than growth-screened peers like DGRO.
DHS Holdings
- Stocks
- 378
- 35%
- ABBV
Sectors
- Financials23.0%
- Health Care17.1%
- Cons. Staples13.1%
- Energy10.0%
- Communication9.2%
- Utilities8.2%
- Technology6.6%
- Consumer Discr.5.1%
- Industrials4.1%
- Real Estate2.6%
- Materials1.1%
Geography
- United States99.80%
- Puerto Rico0.20%
DHS 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 | DHS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.1% |
| 1 month | −3.5% |
| 3 months | +3.1% |
| 1 year | +18.9% |
| 3 years | +17.5% |
| 5 years | +12.1% |
| 10 years | +9.5% |
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 | DHS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.1% | |
| 2025 | +12.9% | |
| 2024 | +17.5% | |
| 2023 | −0.2% | |
| 2022 | +7.9% | |
| 2021 | +23.2% | |
| 2020 | −5.7% |
DHS in the news
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DHS Dividends
- 3.33%
- $3.82
- $0.32 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.36 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.58 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.43 |
DHS Risk
- 12.2%
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.
- 1.03
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.
- −15.3%
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.
- 0.47
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DHS Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
23 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.