Hartford US Quality Growth ETF
$67.66−0.46 (−0.67%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.34%
- Fund size
- $51M
- 1Y return
- +15.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.44%
- Holdings
- 97
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $67.98
- 52W range
The ETF.net HQGO Grade
Score 53 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 46Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 91Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 34Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 36Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 27Category rank
Our read on HQGO
CHartford's growth sleeve with a seatbelt: an in-house index that leans on growth and quality while keeping a foot in value and momentum, packed into roughly 100 US stocks. Young, small, and priced above plain index growth.
The Fund seeks to provide total returns corresponding to the Hartford US Quality Growth Index, which invests in U.S. equities emphasizing growth and quality while retaining exposure to value and momentum.
Why people hold it
- Four factors, one ticker. The index emphasizes growth and quality but retains value and momentum exposure, so it is not a pure chase-the-winners growth build.
- The portfolio has stayed tightly aligned with the Hartford US Quality Growth Index it advertises, one of the closer index-to-holdings matches in its multifactor group.
- Concentrated on purpose: roughly 100 names rather than a sprawling growth basket, so individual positions carry real weight.
- A conventional 1940 Act fund tracking a named, published index, with quarterly distributions. No derivatives wrapper, no outcome period to track.
Worth knowing
- 0.34% a year is the price of the factor blend. Plain US growth beta in the same cohort runs far cheaper, with IUSG at 0.04%.
- Small asset base and light trading volume, so spreads tend to be wider than at the cohort's giants.
- Launched December 2023, so the record is short and does not cover a full market cycle.
HQGO Holdings
- Stocks
- 97
- 38%
- AAPL
Sectors
- Technology42.4%
- Consumer Discr.13.3%
- Communication10.9%
- Health Care10.2%
- Financials6.7%
- Industrials6.2%
- Energy3.8%
- Cons. Staples3.7%
- Materials1.9%
- Real Estate0.8%
- Utilities0.1%
Geography
- United States97.59%
- Ireland1.01%
- Singapore0.87%
- Australia0.32%
- Cayman Islands0.17%
- Canada0.04%
HQGO 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 | HQGO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.6% |
| 1 month | +1.4% |
| 3 months | +5.8% |
| 1 year | +15.1% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | HQGO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.6% | |
| 2025 | +15.1% | |
| 2024 | +25.1% | |
| 2023 | +6.1% |
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HQGO Dividends
- 0.44%
- $0.30
- $0.07 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Mar 25, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.07 |
HQGO Risk
- 13.0%
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.
- 1.13
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.
- −20.9%
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.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HQGO Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
51 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.