Sound Equity Dividend Income ETF
$29.80−0.09 (−0.30%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $28M
- 1Y return
- +18.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.95%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.43
- 52W range
The ETF.net DIVY Grade
Score 47 of 100 sits in the C 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 74Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 23Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 27Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 32Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 46Category rank
Our read on DIVY
CMost dividend funds hope for yield. DIVY writes it into the job description: an actively picked portfolio aiming for at least twice the S&P 500's dividend yield, paid out monthly.
The actively managed fund seeks current income by targeting a portfolio dividend yield at least twice that of the S&P 500, with long-term capital appreciation as a secondary objective.
Why people hold it
- The yield target is in the mandate, not the marketing: the fund seeks a portfolio dividend yield at least twice that of the S&P 500, with long-term growth as the stated second job.
- Cash arrives monthly, and the 0.45% fee sits under the typical charge for an active dividend-income fund.
- Names are chosen bottom-up on profitability, quality and value, so a fat payout has to clear a fundamentals bar first.
Worth knowing
- A small fund that trades thinly. Spreads can be wider than in household-name dividend ETFs, and bigger orders can push the price around.
- Doubling the market's yield narrows the hunting ground toward higher-payout corners, so the sector mix can look quite different from the broad market.
- The category is crowded with cheaper active options (CGDV at 0.33%, HIDV at 0.35%), and DIVY lands in the lower half of our dividend-income peer group.
DIVY Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 45%
- OMC
Sectors
- Financials18.3%
- Energy15.0%
- Health Care13.6%
- Cons. Staples12.2%
- Communication11.0%
- Consumer Discr.8.4%
- Industrials7.0%
- Technology6.6%
- Utilities4.6%
- Materials3.3%
Geography
- United States83.71%
- Ireland4.46%
- France3.38%
- United Kingdom3.35%
- Switzerland2.70%
- Canada2.41%
DIVY 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 | DIVY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.7% |
| 1 month | −4.1% |
| 3 months | +6.3% |
| 1 year | +18.7% |
| 3 years | +10.2% |
| 5 years | +8.5% |
| 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 | DIVY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.7% | |
| 2025 | +7.4% | |
| 2024 | +2.7% | |
| 2023 | +5.1% | |
| 2022 | +3.4% | |
| 2021 | +35.4% |
DIVY in the news
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DIVY Dividends
- 2.95%
- $0.88
- $0.04 per share
- Bi-Weekly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 16, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Aug 18, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 16, 2026 | $0.04 |
| May 28, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.04 |
| May 14, 2026 | May 15, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Apr 17, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.04 |
DIVY Risk
- 12.3%
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.
- 0.51
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.
- −18.3%
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.
- 0.59
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DIVY Cost
- The middle half of US Active Dividend Income funds
- Median 0.51%
8 of the 40 US Active Dividend Income funds charge less.