Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF
$51.94−0.24 (−0.46%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $1.4B
- 1Y return
- +7.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.26%
- Holdings
- 104
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $51.65
- 52W range
The ETF.net FSTA Grade
Score 74 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 94Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 68Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 70Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 44Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 55Category rank
Our read on FSTA
AConsumer staples at Fidelity's house price: 0.08% a year for roughly 100 US soap, soda and supermarket stocks, tracking an investable-market index that reaches past the mega caps.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the MSCI USA IMI Consumer Staples Index.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.08% a year against a 0.40% median for staples ETFs. It matches the cheapest household name in the group (XLP) and edges out VDC.
- Tracks the MSCI USA IMI Consumer Staples 25/50 Index, an investable-market benchmark, so the basket runs to about 100 names instead of a large-cap-only slice.institutional.fidelity.com
- Trading since 2013 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund, it sits in the top quartile of the consumer staples funds we grade.
Worth knowing
- One sector, one country. Results ride on US packaged food, household products and grocery shelves, with no ballast from the rest of the market.
- Moderately traded rather than a tape-topper, so spreads can run wider than at the biggest staples ETFs, particularly in fast markets.
- Income arrives quarterly, not monthly.
FSTA Holdings
- Stocks
- 104
- 66%
- WMT
Sectors
- Cons. Staples98.2%
- Consumer Discr.0.8%
- Technology0.4%
- Materials0.3%
- Industrials0.3%
Geography
- United States99.72%
- Cayman Islands0.16%
- Ireland0.12%
FSTA 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 | FSTA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +7.9% |
| 1 month | −2.9% |
| 3 months | +0.8% |
| 1 year | +7.3% |
| 3 years | +8.8% |
| 5 years | +6.6% |
| 10 years | +7.6% |
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 | FSTA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +7.9% | |
| 2025 | +1.8% | |
| 2024 | +13.3% | |
| 2023 | +2.3% | |
| 2022 | −1.7% | |
| 2021 | +17.5% | |
| 2020 | +11.0% |
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FSTA Dividends
- 2.26%
- $1.18
- $0.29 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.10 |
FSTA Risk
- 12.1%
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.
- 0.36
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.
- −16.6%
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.
- 0.51
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FSTA Cost
- The middle half of Consumer Staples (Broad) funds
- Median 0.38%
No Consumer Staples (Broad) fund charges less.