Franklin U.S. Mid Cap Multifactor Index ETF
$58.66−0.27 (−0.46%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $1.5B
- 1Y return
- +6.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.67%
- Holdings
- 119
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $58.98
- 52W range
The ETF.net FLQM 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.CScore 49Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 71Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 40Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 63Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 71Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 58Category rank
Our read on FLQM
BMultifactor investing usually stops at the mega caps. FLQM runs the full four-factor screen (value, quality, momentum, low volatility) through the middle of the US market, landing on roughly 120 names.
The Fund uses a passive indexing approach to seek investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the U.S. Mid Cap Underlying Index.
Why people hold it
- Four screens in one rule set: value, quality, momentum and low volatility, applied to US mid caps rather than the large-cap names most factor funds fish in.
- 0.30% a year, a shade under the typical fee across its multifactor peer group.
- Straight passive indexing against a named, published index, with no manager discretion layered on top. It sits in the upper half of a crowded multifactor field.
- Live since 2017, now a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades at moderate volume and pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- About 120 stocks is a tighter net than a broad mid-cap index, so each holding carries real weight in the outcome.
- Blending four factors means it rarely looks like a plain mid-cap index. When one style is leading the market, this one can move on its own path.
- 0.30% is real money next to the cheapest names in the same peer group, where FNDX charges 0.25% and VYM 0.04%.
FLQM Holdings
- Stocks
- 119
- 11%
- EXPE
Sectors
- Financials16.6%
- Consumer Discr.15.9%
- Health Care15.8%
- Industrials14.7%
- Technology13.8%
- Cons. Staples9.0%
- Energy5.2%
- Real Estate3.3%
- Communication2.5%
- Utilities1.8%
- Materials1.4%
Geography
- United States95.64%
- Bermuda1.95%
- Switzerland1.14%
- Ireland0.46%
- Canada0.35%
- Luxembourg0.33%
- Netherlands0.07%
- Brazil0.06%
FLQM 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 | FLQM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +5.9% |
| 1 month | −4.1% |
| 3 months | +4.7% |
| 1 year | +6.2% |
| 3 years | +12.9% |
| 5 years | +7.1% |
| 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 | FLQM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +5.9% | |
| 2025 | +5.2% | |
| 2024 | +14.3% | |
| 2023 | +17.5% | |
| 2022 | −12.9% | |
| 2021 | +28.8% | |
| 2020 | +15.5% |
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FLQM Dividends
- 1.67%
- $0.98
- $0.19 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.24 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 25, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | $0.25 |
FLQM Risk
- 13.6%
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.
- 0.58
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.
- −22.5%
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.
- 0.81
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FLQM Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
48 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.