Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index ETF
$35.66−0.38 (−1.04%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.25%
- Fund size
- $8.8B
- 1Y return
- +15.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.16%
- Holdings
- 917
- Volume · 30D
- 0.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $35.93
- 52W range
The ETF.net FNDA Grade
Score 59 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 34Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 76Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 79Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 65Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 66Category rank
Our read on FNDA
BMost small-cap index funds size positions by stock price. FNDA sizes them by fundamental measures of business size instead, which tilts the portfolio toward value. Schwab's contrarian take on small-cap indexing.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, an index representing small U.S. companies selected and weighted according to fundamental size measures.
Why people hold it
- Weights companies by fundamental size measures rather than market price, so a name's slot in the fund follows the business, not the crowd's current enthusiasm for the shares.schwabassetmanagement.com
- Roughly 900 holdings, so no single small cap steers the whole portfolio.
- The 0.25% expense ratio sits right at the median for US small-cap ETFs, which is modest for a rules-based strategy that rebalances against price.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, running on an index built with a liquidity screen, which matters in a corner of the market where spreads bite.
Worth knowing
- Plain market-cap rivals go far cheaper: SCHA and VB both charge 0.03%. The fundamental tilt carries a real fee premium over vanilla small-cap exposure.
- The advertised value screen means returns can drift from standard small-cap benchmarks for long stretches, in either direction.
- Fundamental weighting rebalances toward shares that have fallen relative to their business size, so the fund leans into unloved names by design.
FNDA Holdings
- Stocks
- 917
- 4%
- LITE
Sectors
- Industrials18.3%
- Financials15.8%
- Technology14.3%
- Consumer Discr.13.1%
- Real Estate9.9%
- Health Care8.1%
- Energy5.6%
- Materials4.7%
- Cons. Staples4.0%
- Communication3.7%
- Utilities2.5%
Geography
- United States97.90%
- Bermuda1.03%
- United Kingdom0.39%
- Luxembourg0.17%
- Monaco0.15%
- Puerto Rico0.15%
- Ireland0.14%
- Greece0.07%
FNDA 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 | FNDA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.9% |
| 1 month | −4.5% |
| 3 months | −2.3% |
| 1 year | +15.8% |
| 3 years | +15.7% |
| 5 years | +8.1% |
| 10 years | +10.0% |
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 | FNDA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.9% | |
| 2025 | +7.4% | |
| 2024 | +9.0% | |
| 2023 | +20.3% | |
| 2022 | −14.8% | |
| 2021 | +31.1% | |
| 2020 | +8.0% |
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FNDA Dividends
- 1.16%
- $0.42
- $0.10 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Dec 15, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Dec 16, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Mar 25, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Dec 11, 2023 | $0.13 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Sep 25, 2023 | $0.09 |
FNDA Risk
- 18.1%
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.
- 0.59
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.
- −25.9%
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.
- 1.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FNDA Cost
- The middle half of US Small-Cap funds
- Median 0.20%
10 of the 17 US Small-Cap funds charge less.