Hartford Large Cap Growth ETF
$30.36−0.46 (−1.49%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.59%
- Fund size
- $213M
- 1Y return
- +11.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- —
- Holdings
- 45
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $30.63
- 52W range
The ETF.net HFGO Grade
Score 43 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.CScore 42Category 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.CScore 41Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 48Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 39Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 62Category rank
Our read on HFGO
CWellington's high-conviction growth desk in an ETF wrapper: roughly 40 large-cap names run against the Russell 1000 Growth benchmark, with the freedom to reach down the market-cap ladder for ideas.
The Fund seeks capital appreciation. It is actively managed and invests in large-cap securities using a growth-oriented style.
Why people hold it
- Concentrated by design: about 40 holdings, so each pick carries real weight instead of being diluted across hundreds of names.
- Actively managed and sub-advised by Wellington Management, whose team picks stocks across market caps rather than replicating an index.sec.govhartfordfunds.com
- At 0.59%, it undercuts several rivals measured against the same Russell 1000 Growth benchmark, including TLG (0.82%), PJFG (0.75%) and LSGR (0.67%).
Worth knowing
- 0.59% sits above the typical fund in its active large-cap growth group, and far above enhanced-index cousins like FELG (0.18%) and JUSA (0.12%).
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so spreads can be wider than the mega-cap growth ETFs it competes with.
- The mandate is capital appreciation, not income; distributions have not been a feature of this fund.
HFGO Holdings
- Stocks
- 45
- 62%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology57.3%
- Communication20.6%
- Consumer Discr.7.9%
- Industrials6.5%
- Health Care5.7%
- Financials1.5%
- Energy0.5%
Geography
- United States89.93%
- Canada3.04%
- Sweden2.00%
- Netherlands1.83%
- Singapore1.68%
- United Kingdom1.17%
- Switzerland0.35%
HFGO 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 | HFGO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.9% |
| 1 month | +5.2% |
| 3 months | +5.3% |
| 1 year | +11.8% |
| 3 years | +28.6% |
| 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 | HFGO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.9% | |
| 2025 | +15.5% | |
| 2024 | +40.7% | |
| 2023 | +42.4% | |
| 2022 | −36.7% | |
| 2021 | −5.2% |
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HFGO Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
HFGO Risk
- 19.6%
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.
- 0.94
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.
- −44.6%
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.
- 1.30
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HFGO Cost
- The middle half of US Active Growth funds
- Median 0.56%
51 of the 89 US Active Growth funds charge less.