Northern Trust Global Quality Real Estate ETF
$60.70−0.48 (−0.79%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.46%
- Fund size
- $445M
- 1Y return
- +5.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.33%
- Holdings
- 195
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $61.02
- 52W range
The ETF.net GQRE Grade
Score 67 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.AScore 71Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 72Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 54Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 72Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 69Category rank
Our read on GQRE
BMost global real estate funds just buy landlords by size. GQRE runs the world's REITs through a quality, value and momentum screen first, then owns about 200 of them, and charges less than its category's median fee to do it.
The Fund seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Northern Trust Global Quality Real Estate Index.
Why people hold it
- Screens global property stocks on quality, value and momentum instead of ranking them by market size alone.flexshares.com
- 0.46% a year undercuts the median fee in its global real estate group, which is rare for a rules-based screen rather than a plain cap-weighted basket.
- Hews very closely to the Northern Trust Global Quality Real Estate Index, one of the tightest index followers among its global property peers.flexshares.com
- Roughly 200 landlords spread across global markets, running since 2013, with cash paid out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- The screen costs you: plain cap-weighted rivals REET, HAUZ and VNQI all charge close to a tenth of a percent.
- Thinly traded next to the category's giants, so spreads and order size matter more here than with the household-name trackers.
- One sector, globally. It is real estate equity only, so it moves with rates and property cycles rather than the broad market.
GQRE Holdings
- Stocks
- 195
- 35%
- PLD
Sectors
- Real Estate99.4%
- Consumer Discr.0.6%
Geography
- United States67.91%
- Japan7.79%
- Hong Kong4.95%
- France3.40%
- Australia3.18%
- Switzerland2.08%
- Canada2.02%
- Israel1.97%
- 6.71%
Developed 89% · Emerging 11%
GQRE 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 | GQRE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +5.8% |
| 1 month | −4.3% |
| 3 months | −2.6% |
| 1 year | +5.8% |
| 3 years | +11.2% |
| 5 years | +1.3% |
| 10 years | +3.3% |
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 | GQRE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +5.8% | |
| 2025 | +8.3% | |
| 2024 | +6.0% | |
| 2023 | +9.2% | |
| 2022 | −27.2% | |
| 2021 | +32.0% | |
| 2020 | −9.1% |
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GQRE Dividends
- 4.33%
- $2.65
- $0.42 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.58 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $1.57 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.51 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.60 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $1.25 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.41 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.44 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.50 |
GQRE Risk
- 15.1%
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.
- 0.44
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.
- −35.1%
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.
- 0.92
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GQRE Cost
- The middle half of Global & International Real Estate funds
- Median 0.50%
5 of the 17 Global & International Real Estate funds charge less.