Northern Trust International Quality Dividend ETF
$34.88−0.56 (−1.57%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $1.1B
- 1Y return
- +28.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.35%
- Holdings
- 258
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $35.06
- 52W range
The ETF.net IQDF Grade
Score 60 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.CScore 50Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 93Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 46Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 38Category 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.BScore 59Category rank
Our read on IQDF
BFlexShares screens overseas payers through Northern Trust's Dividend Quality Score, favoring profitable, well-run companies over the fattest yields. Running since 2013, roughly 300 stocks, paid quarterly.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Northern Trust International Quality Dividend Index.
Why people hold it
- Quality-first screen: Northern Trust's Dividend Quality Score ranks names on profitability and quality rather than headline yield, landing on roughly 300 international stocks.flexshares.com
- Sticks closely to the Northern Trust International Quality Dividend Index, one of the tighter index-followers in its peer group. Passive and rules-based, no manager hunches.flexshares.com
- A 0.49% expense ratio lands mid-pack among international dividend-screen funds, on a multibillion-dollar fund that has been trading since 2013 and pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Broad-index rivals such as VYMI, SCHY and VIGI charge a small fraction of the fee. The extra cost here buys the quality screen, not extra coverage.
- Overseas holdings mean currency moves and local dividend withholding sit between what companies pay and what reaches a US shareholder.flexshares.com
- Volume is moderate rather than heavy, so bid-ask spreads matter more here than in the category's most-traded funds.
IQDF Holdings
- Stocks
- 258
- 20%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Financials27.3%
- Technology18.8%
- Industrials12.5%
- Materials8.5%
- Consumer Discr.6.8%
- Health Care5.7%
- Energy5.5%
- Cons. Staples5.3%
- Communication3.6%
- Utilities3.1%
- Real Estate3.0%
Geography
- Japan11.76%
- Taiwan (Province of China)11.45%
- United Kingdom7.69%
- Canada5.87%
- Korea (the Republic of)5.14%
- France4.93%
- Italy4.68%
- Australia4.10%
- 44.37%
Developed 63% · Emerging 37%
IQDF 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 | IQDF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +20.0% |
| 1 month | −0.3% |
| 3 months | +2.1% |
| 1 year | +28.2% |
| 3 years | +24.3% |
| 5 years | +12.3% |
| 10 years | +9.5% |
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 | IQDF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +20.0% | |
| 2025 | +35.4% | |
| 2024 | +6.6% | |
| 2023 | +20.1% | |
| 2022 | −14.7% | |
| 2021 | +10.2% | |
| 2020 | +3.4% |
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IQDF Dividends
- 3.35%
- $1.19
- $0.43 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.52 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.29 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $0.95 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.38 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.57 |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Sep 21, 2023 | $0.35 |
IQDF Risk
- 10.7%
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.
- 1.66
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.
- −29.1%
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.
- 0.81
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IQDF Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
14 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.