iShares Select Dividend ETF
$155.72−0.52 (−0.33%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $22.9B
- 1Y return
- +15.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.42%
- Holdings
- 98
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $157.21
- 52W range
The ETF.net DVY Grade
Score 71 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.CScore 52Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 92Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 52Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 91Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 71Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 88Category rank
Our read on DVY
AOne of the original US dividend ETFs (2003). It starts with the high yielders, then makes them prove they can keep paying, landing on about 100 names from a rules-based screen rather than a market-cap sweep.
The Fund tracks an index of relatively high dividend-paying U.S. equities, using a rules-based selection of high-yielding stocks with dividend sustainability and liquidity requirements.
Why people hold it
- Launched in 2003, one of the first dividend ETFs on the market, and today a multi-billion-dollar fund with two decades of live history behind the strategy.ishares.com
- The index screens for dividend sustainability and liquidity, not just a fat yield, so a name has to show it can keep the checks coming to get in.ishares.com
- Tracks the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index closely, trades with everyday liquidity, and distributes quarterly.
- Among the stronger implementations in the US dividend-screen crowd: the fund delivers the mandate its documents describe, without structural asterisks.
Worth knowing
- At 0.38% it sits near the middle of dividend screeners, but rivals like SCHD (0.06%) and VIG (0.04%) run their versions for a fraction of the fee.
- A yield-first screen of roughly 100 stocks leans toward mature, income-heavy industries, so sector weights can look nothing like a broad market fund.
- US equities only. Foreign dividend payers sit outside the mandate.
DVY Holdings
- Stocks
- 98
- 20%
- HPQ
Sectors
- Financials25.8%
- Utilities21.6%
- Cons. Staples14.0%
- Consumer Discr.10.3%
- Energy9.9%
- Communication6.0%
- Health Care5.5%
- Technology3.1%
- Materials2.1%
- Industrials1.8%
Geography
- United States97.49%
- United Kingdom1.26%
- Ireland1.25%
DVY Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
DVY$11,557
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 | DVY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.4% |
| 1 month | −4.0% |
| 3 months | +2.2% |
| 1 year | +15.6% |
| 3 years | +16.7% |
| 5 years | +10.4% |
| 10 years | +9.9% |
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 | DVY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.4% | |
| 2025 | +11.6% | |
| 2024 | +16.3% | |
| 2023 | +1.2% | |
| 2022 | +1.8% | |
| 2021 | +31.7% | |
| 2020 | −4.9% |
DVY in the news
DVY Dividends
- 3.42%
- $5.34
- $1.33 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $1.33 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.25 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $1.15 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.62 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $1.25 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $1.23 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $1.05 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $1.32 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $1.55 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.93 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $1.00 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $1.19 |
DVY Risk
- 12.6%
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.
- 0.96
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.
- −17.5%
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.
- 0.57
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DVY Cost
0.38%
DVY0.38%
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
23 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.