Federated Hermes MDT Small Cap Core ETF
$34.07−0.54 (−1.56%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $425M
- 1Y return
- +15.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.23%
- Holdings
- 310
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $34.45
- 52W range
The ETF.net FSCC Grade
Score 57 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.BScore 64Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 84Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 37Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 60Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 63Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 67Category rank
Our read on FSCC
BMost standout active small-cap funds are tilt machines: value, profitability, quality. FSCC is the plain one, picking stocks across the Russell 2000 universe for long-term capital appreciation at a middle-of-the-pack price.
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Core, not a bet on one style: active stock selection measured against the Russell 2000, with long-term capital appreciation as the stated objective.
- 0.50% a year, a touch under the typical active US small-cap fund and well below the 0.80% on GSC, which points at the same Russell 2000 benchmark.
- What is inside matches what is on the label: a US equity portfolio run to its small-cap core mandate, landing in the upper half of its active small-cap peer group.
- Moderately traded rather than thin, so routine buying and selling does not depend on catching a quiet moment in the tape.
Worth knowing
- Launched in 2024, so the record is short and there is not yet a full market cycle to judge the manager on.
- Volatility is the softest part of its profile. Small caps swing harder than large caps, and this fund fishes in the whole Russell 2000 pond.
- You pay for the active call: several of the highest-rated funds in this group, including AVSC, AVUV and DUHP, charge 0.25% or less.
FSCC Holdings
- Stocks
- 310
- 12%
- AHR
Sectors
- Health Care21.9%
- Financials20.4%
- Industrials14.9%
- Technology13.3%
- Consumer Discr.7.4%
- Real Estate7.1%
- Energy5.4%
- Materials3.3%
- Cons. Staples2.9%
- Communication1.7%
- Utilities1.7%
Geography
- United States90.74%
- Bermuda3.24%
- Ireland1.49%
- Singapore0.69%
- Luxembourg0.62%
- Puerto Rico0.56%
- France0.53%
- Switzerland0.41%
- 1.72%
FSCC 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 | FSCC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.3% |
| 1 month | −3.6% |
| 3 months | −4.4% |
| 1 year | +15.5% |
| 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 | FSCC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.3% | |
| 2025 | +15.3% | |
| 2024 | +2.2% |
FSCC in the news
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FSCC Dividends
- 0.23%
- $0.08
- $0.08 per share
- Irregular
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 2, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 31, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.04 |
FSCC Risk
- 18.5%
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.
- 0.72
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.
- −27.2%
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.
- 1.23
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FSCC Cost
- The middle half of US Active Small-Cap funds
- Median 0.55%
16 of the 39 US Active Small-Cap funds charge less.