iShares Core Dividend ETF
$66.12−0.28 (−0.42%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.05%
- Fund size
- $2.0B
- 1Y return
- +31.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.23%
- Holdings
- 380
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $66.78
- 52W range
The ETF.net DIVB Grade
Score 78 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 95Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 89Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 66Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 55Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 59Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 70Category rank
Our read on DIVB
AMost dividend funds only count the check that hits your account. DIVB's index also counts buybacks, treating a shrinking share count as cash returned to owners, and it charges five basis points to do it.
The fund seeks to track an index of U.S. companies selected for a history of dividend payments and/or share buybacks, providing equity exposure oriented toward income and long-term growth.
Why people hold it
- Five basis points a year, one of the lowest fees in the dividend-screen aisle, where the typical fund charges many times more.
- The Morningstar US Dividend and Buyback Index counts repurchases alongside payouts, so a company buying back stock qualifies even with a modest yield. Roughly 400 US names.
- Sits in the top tier of a large dividend-screen peer group and stays tight to its stated mandate: US dividend payers and buyback machines, nothing exotic.
- A billion-dollar-plus member of the iShares Core lineup, running since 2017 and distributing quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Buybacks return value through share count, not cash in your pocket, so the income profile can sit lighter than pure high-yield screens like SPYD.
- Moderately traded rather than a volume heavyweight like SCHD or VIG, so limit orders earn their keep, especially in size.
- All-equity, all-US. Dividends and buybacks soften nothing when the American stock market sells off.
DIVB Holdings
- Stocks
- 380
- 31%
- IBM
Geography
- United States93.03%
- Ireland5.87%
- Bermuda0.64%
- United Kingdom0.16%
- Switzerland0.12%
- Netherlands0.10%
- Puerto Rico0.05%
- Sweden0.03%
DIVB 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 | DIVB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +27.2% |
| 1 month | −3.1% |
| 3 months | +9.7% |
| 1 year | +31.4% |
| 3 years | +24.3% |
| 5 years | +13.8% |
| 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 | DIVB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +27.2% | |
| 2025 | +15.1% | |
| 2024 | +18.6% | |
| 2023 | +13.3% | |
| 2022 | −10.5% | |
| 2021 | +31.3% | |
| 2020 | +10.8% |
DIVB in the news
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DIVB Dividends
- 2.23%
- $1.48
- $0.42 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.39 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.29 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.35 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.36 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.35 |
DIVB 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.
- 1.39
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.
- −21.1%
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.
- 0.87
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DIVB Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
1 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.