Northern Trust International Quality Dividend Dynamic ETF
$42.28−0.79 (−1.83%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.51%
- Fund size
- $111M
- 1Y return
- +30.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.24%
- Holdings
- 248
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.80
- 52W range
The ETF.net IQDY Grade
Score 55 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 62Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 80Category rankRisk
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.FScore 13Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 62Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on IQDY
CThe dial-it-up member of the FlexShares dividend family: quality, cash-generating stocks outside the US, weighted to run at 1.0 to 1.5 times the beta of its parent international large-cap index.
The Fund seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Northern Trust International Quality Dividend Dynamic Index.
Why people hold it
- The aggressive stance is written into the rules, not left to a manager's mood: the index targets overall beta generally between 1.0 and 1.5 times the Northern Trust International Large Cap Index.flexshares.com
- Yield alone does not get a stock in. Names are picked on expected dividends plus fundamentals like profitability and reliable cash flow, so shaky payers get filtered before weighting.flexshares.com
- Roughly 300 stocks across developed and emerging markets outside the US, so the international dividend sleeve arrives in one ticker instead of two.
- Live since 2013 and paying quarterly, with a track record long enough to show how the higher-beta tilt actually behaved through real drawdowns.
Worth knowing
- Above-market beta cuts both ways. This is the amplified corner of quality dividends, built to move more than its parent index in either direction, not the low-volatility option.flexshares.com
- At 0.51% the fee sits about at the median for international dividend screens, but plain-vanilla rivals such as VYMI (0.07%) and SCHY (0.08%) charge a small fraction of it.
- A smaller, lightly traded fund next to the category's giants, which tends to mean wider bid-ask spreads at the moment you transact.
IQDY Holdings
- Stocks
- 248
- 21%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Financials27.7%
- Technology21.1%
- Industrials14.8%
- Materials8.7%
- Consumer Discr.8.7%
- Energy5.2%
- Health Care5.0%
- Cons. Staples3.0%
- Communication2.6%
- Utilities2.0%
- Real Estate1.3%
Geography
- Taiwan (Province of China)12.39%
- Japan12.12%
- United Kingdom8.70%
- France5.51%
- Korea (the Republic of)5.51%
- Canada4.57%
- Italy4.30%
- Hong Kong4.20%
- 42.70%
Developed 62% · Emerging 38%
IQDY 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 | IQDY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +20.8% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −0.5% |
| 1 year | +30.8% |
| 3 years | +25.8% |
| 5 years | +13.2% |
| 10 years | +11.1% |
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 | IQDY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +20.8% | |
| 2025 | +37.4% | |
| 2024 | +6.0% | |
| 2023 | +23.5% | |
| 2022 | −15.7% | |
| 2021 | +12.0% | |
| 2020 | +9.6% |
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IQDY Dividends
- 3.24%
- $1.40
- $0.46 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.46 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.59 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.33 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.52 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $1.21 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.45 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.81 |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Sep 21, 2023 | $0.42 |
IQDY Risk
- 12.3%
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.
- 1.53
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.
- −32.3%
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.
- 0.91
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IQDY Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
19 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.