VanEck Durable High Dividend ETF
$38.67−0.12 (−0.31%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $38M
- 1Y return
- +19.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.12%
- Holdings
- 71
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $38.78
- 52W range
The ETF.net DURA Grade
Score 43 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.BScore 67Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.DScore 37Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 25Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 28Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 27Category rank
Our read on DURA
CMost dividend screens stop at yield. DURA's Morningstar index adds financial-strength and valuation tests on top, hunting high payers that also look cheap rather than just high-yielding.
The fund seeks to track the Morningstar US Dividend Valuation Index, which targets high-dividend-yielding U.S. companies selected for financial strength and attractive valuations.
Why people hold it
- The index screens high-yielding US stocks for financial strength and attractive valuation, a built-in check against chasing yield on its own.vaneck.com
- At 0.30% a year, it undercuts the 0.39% median fee for dividend-screen funds.
- Roughly 70 stocks and quarterly distributions: a compact income sleeve, not a broad-market proxy wearing a dividend label.
- Trading since 2018, so the quality-plus-value approach has a multi-year live record behind it, not just a backtest.
Worth knowing
- A small fund that trades thinly next to the category's giants, so spreads and fill quality can matter more than the expense ratio.
- Cheaper than the typical dividend screener, but the category's largest funds cost a fraction: VIG at 0.04%, SCHD at 0.06%, DGRO at 0.08%.
- A value tilt across roughly 70 names concentrates sector bets and puts more weight on each holding than broad dividend indexes do.
DURA Holdings
- Other
- 71
- 49%
- MRK
Sectors
- Cons. Staples22.2%
- Health Care16.9%
- Energy14.6%
- Financials9.9%
- Communication8.8%
- Technology8.2%
- Utilities6.2%
- Consumer Discr.6.0%
- Industrials5.3%
- Materials1.9%
Geography
- United States96.86%
- Ireland2.13%
- Netherlands0.63%
- Switzerland0.37%
DURA 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 | DURA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.5% |
| 1 month | −3.3% |
| 3 months | +4.2% |
| 1 year | +19.6% |
| 3 years | +11.7% |
| 5 years | +8.2% |
| 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 | DURA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.5% | |
| 2025 | +7.6% | |
| 2024 | +8.5% | |
| 2023 | +0.8% | |
| 2022 | +2.4% | |
| 2021 | +15.5% | |
| 2020 | +0.1% |
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DURA Dividends
- 3.12%
- $1.21
- $0.27 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Apr 4, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.39 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Apr 5, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.31 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Oct 6, 2023 | $0.29 |
DURA Risk
- 11.5%
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.
- 0.62
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.
- −15.8%
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.
- 0.38
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DURA Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
17 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.