Pacer Global Cash Cows Dividend ETF
$45.44−0.36 (−0.80%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $3.5B
- 1Y return
- +22.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.97%
- Holdings
- 110
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.81
- 52W range
The ETF.net GCOW Grade
Score 47 of 100 sits in the C 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.FScore 1Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 60Category rankRisk
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 85Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 55Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 63Category rank
Our read on GCOW
CCash first, dividends second. GCOW ranks global companies by free cash flow yield, then takes the big payers from that pool, so the income comes from businesses the screen says can actually fund it.
The fund seeks income and capital appreciation by screening global companies for high free-cash-flow yield and dividend yield, using a rules-based quality and value methodology.
Why people hold it
- The screen leads with free cash flow, not headline yield: global names are filtered on cash generation and value/quality rules before dividends decide the final cut.paceretfs.com
- Truly global, not just overseas. The mandate covers developed markets worldwide in a concentrated basket of roughly 110 stocks, rules-based rather than manager-picked.paceretfs.com
- Running since 2016 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades with reasonable regularity, so getting in and out is rarely the hard part.
- Income arrives on a quarterly schedule from the fund's own distribution calendar.paceretfs.com
Worth knowing
- At 0.60% a year, it costs more than the typical dividend-screen fund and far more than plain index rivals like VYMI (0.07%) and SCHY (0.08%). The screen has to earn that gap.
- Against its dividend-screen peer group, it sits in the lower tier once cost is weighed alongside how the portfolio is built.
- No target payout is declared. Distributions rise and fall with what the underlying companies pay and with what the screen holds after each rebalance.paceretfs.com
GCOW Holdings
- Stocks
- 110
- 21%
- T
Sectors
- Cons. Staples22.2%
- Health Care17.6%
- Communication15.5%
- Industrials13.2%
- Energy11.2%
- Utilities7.0%
- Consumer Discr.6.6%
- Materials3.7%
- Technology3.0%
Geography
- United States18.11%
- Japan13.50%
- United Kingdom12.55%
- France9.16%
- Germany8.15%
- Hong Kong6.93%
- Australia4.82%
- Switzerland4.63%
- 22.15%
Developed 95% · Emerging 5%
GCOW 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 | GCOW |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.2% |
| 1 month | −3.5% |
| 3 months | +6.4% |
| 1 year | +22.6% |
| 3 years | +16.6% |
| 5 years | +13.8% |
| 10 years | +9.7% |
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 | GCOW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.2% | |
| 2025 | +27.3% | |
| 2024 | +3.5% | |
| 2023 | +14.0% | |
| 2022 | +5.5% | |
| 2021 | +14.5% | |
| 2020 | −4.3% |
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GCOW Dividends
- 4.97%
- $2.27
- $0.43 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Mar 5, 2026 | Mar 9, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $1.01 |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Sep 10, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Jun 11, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Mar 12, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Jan 2, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | $0.32 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.72 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.35 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.28 |
GCOW Risk
- 11.2%
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.
- 1.08
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.
- −21.5%
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.
- 0.40
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GCOW Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
32 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.