Harbor Dividend Growth Leaders ETF (GDIV)
$18.42−0.16 (−0.86%)
History starts May 23, 2022.
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $236M
- 1Y return
- +16.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.14%
- Holdings
- 53
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $18.53
- 52W range
The ETF.net GDIV Grade
Score 50 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.BScore 60Category 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.DScore 25Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 36Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 66Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 82Category rank
Our read on GDIV
CA Westfield stock-picker's dividend strategy that moved into an ETF shell in 2022: same manager, same playbook, roughly 50 large caps chosen for the ability to keep raising payouts rather than for fat yields.
The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital and invests at least 80% of its net assets in dividend-paying equity securities.
Why people hold it
- Not a launch-day idea in a new wrapper. Harbor merged Westfield's dividend growth mutual fund into this ETF in 2022, keeping the strategy and the portfolio manager intact.businesswire.com
- A real active bet, not an index in disguise: about 50 large caps, with at least 80% of net assets in dividend payers picked for stable or rising payouts.businesswire.com
- At 0.50%, it prices below the median active dividend fund in its peer group, and it distributes quarterly.
Worth knowing
- One of the thinner-traded funds in its category, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than on the big income ETFs.
- Cheaper active neighbors exist: CGDV charges 0.33% and HIDV 0.35% for their own takes on dividend equity.
- The stated goal is long-term growth of capital, not maximum income, and with roughly 50 names each pick carries real weight.
GDIV Holdings
- Stocks
- 53
- 35%
- AAPL
Sectors
- Financials24.0%
- Industrials19.7%
- Health Care16.7%
- Technology16.1%
- Energy5.9%
- Consumer Discr.5.2%
- Cons. Staples4.1%
- Utilities3.5%
- Materials2.8%
- Real Estate2.1%
Geography
- United States87.97%
- Japan5.91%
- Ireland2.79%
- Spain1.87%
- Switzerland1.46%
GDIV Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
GDIV$11,606
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 | GDIV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +11.8% |
| 1 month | −2.5% |
| 3 months | −0.2% |
| 1 year | +16.1% |
| 3 years | +16.2% |
| 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 | GDIV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +11.8% | |
| 2025 | +10.8% | |
| 2024 | +14.8% | |
| 2023 | +15.6% | |
| 2022 | −1.6% |
GDIV in the news
GDIV Dividends
- 1.14%
- $0.21
- $0.05 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Apr 4, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Apr 4, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 21, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.07 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Oct 5, 2023 | $0.05 |
GDIV Risk
- 11.8%
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.
- 0.93
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.
- −19.8%
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.
- 0.90
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GDIV Cost
0.50%
GDIV0.50%
- The middle half of US Active Dividend Income funds
- Median 0.51%
16 of the 40 US Active Dividend Income funds charge less.