iShares U.S. Equity Factor Rotation Active ETF
$69.72−0.43 (−0.61%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.26%
- Fund size
- $42.6B
- 1Y return
- +19.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.80%
- Holdings
- 261
- Volume · 30D
- 2.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $70.36
- 52W range
The ETF.net DYNF Grade
Score 84 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 89Category 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.AScore 70Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 98Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 69Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 97Category rank
Our read on DYNF
AMost factor funds make you pick a lane: value, momentum, quality. DYNF rotates across five styles instead, letting a factor model decide which one leads, and charges an index-fund-ish 0.26% to do it.
The Fund seeks to outperform the U.S. equity market through diversified, tactical exposure to style factors using a factor rotation model.
Why people hold it
- Five style factors in one ticket (value, quality, momentum, growth, low volatility), reweighted by a rotation model rather than locked to a single tilt.
- 0.26% is well under half the median fee in its active US equity peer group, which is unusual pricing for a strategy with a human-supervised model behind it.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund and one of the more actively traded names in its category, so getting in and out rarely becomes the hard part. Pays quarterly.
- Running since 2019 under one of the biggest ETF shops, and it stands among the strongest overall implementations in the active US equity group we track.
Worth knowing
- The yardstick isn't the S&P 500: it's a custom blend of 80% MSCI USA and 20% MSCI USA Minimum Volatility, so a low-vol tilt is baked into the benchmark itself.
- Active by design. The factor mix shifts, the book runs to a couple hundred stocks, and a rotation call can leave it out of step with a plain US market index fund.
- Cheap for active, not the cheapest shelf: systematic peers DFAU (0.12%), AVLC (0.15%), DFAC (0.17%) and FELC (0.18%) all undercut it on fee.
DYNF Holdings
- Stocks
- 261
- 41%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology39.8%
- Financials14.9%
- Communication9.6%
- Industrials8.9%
- Health Care7.8%
- Consumer Discr.7.3%
- Energy4.8%
- Real Estate2.1%
- Cons. Staples2.1%
- Utilities1.8%
- Materials1.1%
Geography
- United States98.39%
- Ireland1.46%
- Bermuda0.07%
- Luxembourg0.06%
- Cayman Islands0.02%
DYNF Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
DYNF$11,930
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 | DYNF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.1% |
| 1 month | +1.8% |
| 3 months | +3.8% |
| 1 year | +19.3% |
| 3 years | +27.3% |
| 5 years | +15.9% |
| 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 | DYNF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.1% | |
| 2025 | +20.0% | |
| 2024 | +30.3% | |
| 2023 | +36.3% | |
| 2022 | −20.3% | |
| 2021 | +25.0% | |
| 2020 | +13.5% |
DYNF in the news
DYNF Dividends
- 0.80%
- $0.56
- $0.14 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.09 |
DYNF Risk
- 13.7%
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.
- 1.37
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.
- −26.9%
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.
- 1.02
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DYNF Cost
0.26%
DYNF0.26%
- The middle half of US Active Equity funds
- Median 0.70%
14 of the 124 US Active Equity funds charge less.