Harbor SMID Cap Core ETF (EPSB)
$26.53−0.06 (−0.23%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.88%
- Fund size
- $5M
- 1Y return
- +19.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Holdings
- 58
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $26.58
- 52W range
The ETF.net EPSB Grade
Score 29 of 100 sits in the D band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E. A structural cap ceilings this fund at 40, so B and A are out of reach.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 9Category 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 68Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 24Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 43Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 32Category rank
Our read on EPSB
DMost "core" equity ETFs mean large caps and a phone book of holdings. Harbor's SMID Cap Core goes the other way: an active, roughly 60-stock portfolio of US small- and mid-cap companies, launched in 2025.
The Fund invests principally in common stocks and other equity securities of U.S. small- and mid-capitalization companies.
Why people hold it
- Concentrated by design: about 60 US small- and mid-cap names, so each pick carries real weight in the portfolio.
- Narrow, legible mandate. The prospectus commits it principally to common stocks and other equity securities of US small- and mid-cap companies.
- Sits where the cohort's leaders mostly don't: DFAU, FELC and AVLC are total-market or large-cap builds, while this one lives entirely down-cap.
Worth knowing
- Active pricing: 0.88% a year, against a 0.65% cohort median and index-built peers like DFAC at 0.17%. The manager has to earn that gap.
- A 2025 launch with a small asset base, so there is little live track record to judge the strategy on yet.
- Thinly traded, so spreads can run wider and order timing matters more than it would in the category's heavyweights. Distributions come once or twice a year.
EPSB Holdings
- Stocks
- 58
- 26%
- MOG-A
Sectors
- Industrials28.8%
- Technology22.1%
- Financials12.4%
- Health Care10.5%
- Consumer Discr.9.2%
- Real Estate6.1%
- Materials5.9%
- Energy2.6%
- Utilities2.6%
Geography
- United States100.00%
EPSB 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 | EPSB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.1% |
| 1 month | −3.4% |
| 3 months | −3.4% |
| 1 year | +19.2% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | EPSB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.1% | |
| 2025 | +15.1% |
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EPSB Dividends
- $0.31 per share
- Irregular
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.31 |
EPSB Risk
- 13.2%
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.
- 1.41
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.
- −8.5%
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.
- 0.61
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EPSB Cost
- The middle half of US Active Small/Mid-Cap funds
- Median 0.55%
41 of the 47 US Active Small/Mid-Cap funds charge less.