KraneShares Value Line Dynamic Dividend Equity Index ETF
$28.29−0.21 (−0.73%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.56%
- Fund size
- $41M
- 1Y return
- +12.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 8.12%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.50
- 52W range
The ETF.net KVLE Grade
Score 38 of 100 sits in the D 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.FScore 15Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 71Category 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.FScore 21Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 59Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 15Category rank
Our read on KVLE
DKVLE bolts a dividend portfolio onto Value Line's Safety and Timeliness rankings, the old-school stock-research scores, and lets the index shift with the market instead of holding one fixed high-yield list.
The fund seeks exposure to US large-cap companies through a market-adaptive index strategy emphasizing high dividend yields, strong Value Line Safety and Timeliness rankings, and quantitative risk management.
Why people hold it
- Stock picking runs off Value Line's Safety and Timeliness rankings, a research-house quality screen, not just a yield number or a dividend-streak count.
- The index is market-adaptive: it reshuffles its US large-cap dividend payers as conditions change, with quantitative risk management written into the rules.
- Plain shape underneath: US large-cap equity, dividends paid on a quarterly schedule.
Worth knowing
- The 0.56% fee sits above the dividend-screen median of 0.39% and far above index staples like SCHD (0.06%) and VIG (0.04%).
- Small asset base and thin trading, so spreads can run wider than in the household-name dividend funds.
- Value Line's rankings are proprietary, so the reasoning behind holdings is harder to eyeball than a published yield or dividend-growth rule.
KVLE Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 24%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology32.5%
- Real Estate13.3%
- Financials11.6%
- Industrials10.3%
- Consumer Discr.9.6%
- Health Care7.3%
- Cons. Staples6.3%
- Energy4.8%
- Materials2.6%
- Communication1.7%
Geography
- United States98.58%
- Singapore1.42%
KVLE 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 | KVLE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.6% |
| 1 month | −3.0% |
| 3 months | +2.7% |
| 1 year | +12.8% |
| 3 years | +16.5% |
| 5 years | +10.9% |
| 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 | KVLE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.6% | |
| 2025 | +10.1% | |
| 2024 | +18.3% | |
| 2023 | +10.5% | |
| 2022 | −6.0% | |
| 2021 | +28.0% | |
| 2020 | +1.4% |
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KVLE Dividends
- 8.12%
- $2.31
- $0.17 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $1.88 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 18, 2024 | $1.60 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 20, 2023 | $0.22 |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.12 |
KVLE Risk
- 11.8%
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.
- 0.96
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.
- −18.4%
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.
- 0.83
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
KVLE Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
44 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.