WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund
$98.53−0.55 (−0.55%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.28%
- Fund size
- $6.2B
- 1Y return
- +16.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.76%
- Holdings
- 305
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $98.79
- 52W range
The ETF.net DLN Grade
Score 76 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 71Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 86Category 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.AScore 83Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 65Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 74Category rank
Our read on DLN
AMost dividend funds sort by yield or by streaks of raises. DLN sorts by dollars: the more cash a company is projected to pay out, the bigger its weight. Roughly 300 US large caps, dividend-weighted since 2006, paid out monthly.
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of dividend-paying large-cap companies in the U.S. equity market.
Why people hold it
- Weights holdings by projected cash dividends, not yield, so the biggest actual payers get the biggest slice. A different sort order than most large-cap dividend funds.sec.gov
- At 0.28% a year, it undercuts the typical fund in its dividend-screen peer group, where the median runs 0.39%.
- Pays monthly rather than quarterly, and has run the same dividend-weighted playbook since its 2006 launch.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that stays close to its stated index, and one of the stronger implementations in the US dividend-screen group.
Worth knowing
- Cheap for its cohort, not cheap outright: VIG, SCHD and DGRO all charge under a tenth of a percent.
- Dividend dollars drive the weights, so the largest payers dominate. No dividend-growth-streak or quality screen sits behind the weighting.sec.gov
- Weights are set once a year at the index measurement date, so between resets the mix drifts with share prices.sec.gov
DLN Holdings
- Stocks
- 305
- 26%
- MSFT
Sectors
- Technology21.4%
- Financials18.2%
- Health Care13.9%
- Cons. Staples8.8%
- Energy8.1%
- Communication7.8%
- Industrials7.5%
- Utilities5.1%
- Consumer Discr.4.6%
- Real Estate3.8%
- Materials1.1%
Geography
- United States100.00%
DLN 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 | DLN |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.8% |
| 1 month | −1.5% |
| 3 months | +3.3% |
| 1 year | +16.4% |
| 3 years | +19.1% |
| 5 years | +12.7% |
| 10 years | +12.5% |
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 | DLN |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.8% | |
| 2025 | +15.5% | |
| 2024 | +19.4% | |
| 2023 | +9.9% | |
| 2022 | −3.8% | |
| 2021 | +25.6% | |
| 2020 | +4.6% |
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DLN Dividends
- 1.76%
- $1.75
- $0.13 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.21 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.21 |
DLN Risk
- 10.3%
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.
- 1.27
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.
- −16.3%
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.
- 0.76
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DLN Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
14 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.