Invesco S&P Emerging Markets Low Volatility ETF
$28.31−0.19 (−0.67%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.29%
- Fund size
- $425M
- 1Y return
- +12.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.29%
- Holdings
- 202
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.62
- 52W range
The ETF.net EELV Grade
Score 64 of 100 sits in the B 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 78Category 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.BScore 62Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 35Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 68Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 70Category rank
Our read on EELV
BEELV hunts the calm corners of emerging markets: roughly 200 of the least volatile stocks in a broad EM universe, chosen by rule rather than by a manager's hunch. Same asset class, deliberately lower-drama construction.
The fund provides exposure to emerging-market stocks selected for low volatility by tracking the S&P BMI Emerging Markets Low Volatility Index.
Why people hold it
- At 0.29% a year it undercuts the median fee in its emerging-markets factor cohort (0.44%), and it has run the same low-volatility rulebook since its 2012 launch.
- The rule is plain: track the S&P BMI Emerging Markets Low Volatility Index, which screens a broad EM universe on realized volatility. No stock-picker discretion.invesco.com
- Roughly 200 holdings means no single name or headline steers the whole portfolio, and distributions land on a quarterly schedule.
Worth knowing
- It trades lightly next to the category's largest funds, so the spread paid at the trade can matter as much as the 0.29% fee.
- A pure volatility screen reshapes the map: sector and country weights can sit far from a standard cap-weighted emerging-markets index.invesco.com
- Cheap, but not the cheapest low-vol EM shelf: iShares' EEMV lists a 0.25% fee.
EELV Holdings
- Stocks
- 202
- 9%
- KFH.KW
Sectors
- Financials42.7%
- Industrials10.9%
- Cons. Staples9.0%
- Communication8.7%
- Utilities7.2%
- Health Care5.2%
- Materials4.4%
- Consumer Discr.4.4%
- Energy4.1%
- Real Estate2.8%
- Technology0.5%
Geography
- Taiwan20.06%
- Saudi Arabia11.56%
- Malaysia10.37%
- China10.28%
- South Africa7.16%
- Thailand6.61%
- Kuwait6.07%
- Hong Kong4.63%
- 23.26%
Developed 5% · Emerging 95%
EELV 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 | EELV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.1% |
| 1 month | +0.4% |
| 3 months | +2.6% |
| 1 year | +12.2% |
| 3 years | +12.8% |
| 5 years | +7.6% |
| 10 years | +6.4% |
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 | EELV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.1% | |
| 2025 | +22.0% | |
| 2024 | +1.9% | |
| 2023 | +8.9% | |
| 2022 | −4.0% | |
| 2021 | +16.2% | |
| 2020 | −3.9% |
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EELV Dividends
- 4.29%
- $1.22
- $0.43 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.35 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $0.36 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.32 |
EELV Risk
- 9.4%
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.
- 0.79
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.
- −19.0%
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.
- 0.60
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EELV Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Factor Index funds
- Median 0.45%
1 of the 10 Emerging Markets Factor Index funds charge less.