Northern Trust STOXX Global ESG Select ETF
$240.07−1.96 (−0.81%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $114M
- 1Y return
- +24.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.24%
- Holdings
- 742
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $240.83
- 52W range
The ETF.net ESGG Grade
Score 56 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 29Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 94Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 74Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 47Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 32Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 56Category rank
Our read on ESGG
BMost ESG funds in this lane stop at the US border. ESGG doesn't: one ticker, roughly 700 companies worldwide, screened by a published set of ESG key performance indicators. The trade-off is a pricier ticket and light trading.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the STOXX Global ESG Select KPIs Index.
Why people hold it
- Global by design, not ex-US. Roughly 700 holdings spanning developed markets including the US, while most ESG peers in its group (VSGX, ESGD, PABD) leave American stocks out.flexshares.com
- Rules over hunches: it tracks the STOXX Global ESG Select KPIs Index, so the ESG screen follows a published methodology rather than a manager's judgment call.flexshares.com
- The mandate is narrow and the fund sticks to it. Live since 2016 under Northern Trust's FlexShares banner, with quarterly distributions.
Worth knowing
- The fee is the sore spot: 0.45% a year, roughly double the median for its ESG peer group, where VSGX charges 0.10% and DMXF 0.12%.
- It trades lightly next to the heavyweights in its category, so bid-ask spreads can run wider. That bites most on large or hurried orders.
- Global means global: US mega-caps sit alongside foreign names here, so it overlaps a US core holding in a way the ex-US ESG funds don't.
ESGG Holdings
- Stocks
- 742
- 40%
- MU
Sectors
- Technology39.1%
- Financials20.5%
- Health Care13.9%
- Industrials6.0%
- Cons. Staples5.3%
- Energy5.0%
- Consumer Discr.4.0%
- Materials2.3%
- Communication1.6%
- Utilities1.3%
- Real Estate1.0%
Geography
- United States67.99%
- Japan6.32%
- United Kingdom4.91%
- Switzerland3.17%
- France3.03%
- Australia2.88%
- Canada2.10%
- Spain1.83%
- 7.77%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
ESGG 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 | ESGG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +19.0% |
| 1 month | +1.0% |
| 3 months | +4.1% |
| 1 year | +24.5% |
| 3 years | +23.0% |
| 5 years | +12.9% |
| 10 years | +14.1% |
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 | ESGG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +19.0% | |
| 2025 | +24.0% | |
| 2024 | +14.5% | |
| 2023 | +25.6% | |
| 2022 | −18.7% | |
| 2021 | +23.8% | |
| 2020 | +17.3% |
ESGG in the news
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ESGG Dividends
- 1.24%
- $3.00
- $0.48 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.48 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $1.30 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.89 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.48 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $1.14 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $1.05 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.52 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $1.24 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.76 |
ESGG Risk
- 11.9%
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.
- 1.32
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.
- −27.6%
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.
ESGG Cost
- The middle half of International ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.26%
12 of the 18 International ESG & Values Index funds charge less.