Northern Trust STOXX US ESG Select ETF
$181.28−1.18 (−0.65%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.33%
- Fund size
- $137M
- 1Y return
- +19.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.82%
- Holdings
- 253
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $182.00
- 52W range
The ETF.net ESG Grade
Score 58 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.DScore 32Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 76Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 30Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 45Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 61Category rank
Our read on ESG
BPlenty of ESG funds hand you the S&P 500 with a few names shaved off. This one narrows to about 300 US companies chosen on ESG key performance indicators, tracked passively since 2016.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the STOXX USA ESG Select KPIs Index. It uses a passive representative-sampling approach to invest in U.S. equities selected using ESG criteria.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely selective: roughly 300 US names screened on ESG key performance indicators, not the full large-cap index with a handful of names trimmed out.flexshares.com
- Straight index execution: passive representative sampling of one named STOXX index, no manager discretion. What the label promises is what the portfolio holds.
- Live since 2016, so it has a longer real-world record than much of the ESG shelf, and it pays out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.33% a year, it costs more than the cheapest index-based ESG peers, including XVV at 0.08% and ESGV at 0.09%.
- A modest asset base and light trading mean bid-ask spreads can run wider than at the giants of the category.
- A roughly 300-stock portfolio is a narrower slice than S&P 500-based ESG funds, so it can drift from the broad market in either direction.
ESG Holdings
- Stocks
- 253
- 42%
- MU
Sectors
- Technology35.7%
- Financials20.4%
- Health Care14.3%
- Cons. Staples9.7%
- Industrials4.9%
- Energy4.0%
- Materials3.2%
- Consumer Discr.3.1%
- Real Estate2.3%
- Communication2.3%
- Utilities0.1%
Geography
- United States97.23%
- Ireland1.52%
- United Kingdom0.91%
- Netherlands0.23%
- Australia0.07%
- Canada0.04%
ESG 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 | ESG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.0% |
| 1 month | +0.4% |
| 3 months | +4.1% |
| 1 year | +19.4% |
| 3 years | +21.1% |
| 5 years | +12.5% |
| 10 years | +15.4% |
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 | ESG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.0% | |
| 2025 | +16.0% | |
| 2024 | +20.2% | |
| 2023 | +27.9% | |
| 2022 | −19.9% | |
| 2021 | +28.5% | |
| 2020 | +20.8% |
ESG in the news
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ESG Dividends
- 0.82%
- $1.50
- $0.35 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.47 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.41 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $0.51 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.41 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.41 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.39 |
ESG Risk
- 12.5%
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.
- 1.13
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.
- −26.0%
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.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ESG Cost
- The middle half of US ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.23%
33 of the 48 US ESG & Values Index funds charge less.