Matrix Advisors Value ETF
$138.88−0.93 (−0.67%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $95M
- 1Y return
- +18.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $140.39
- 52W range
The ETF.net MAVF Grade
Score 25 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 18Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 65Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 29Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 24Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 30Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 59Category rank
Our read on MAVF
DA 1996-vintage value strategy wearing an ETF ticker. Matrix picks US stocks by its own definition of cheap, aiming at appreciation and income both. Old-school active work in an aisle now ruled by rules-based screens.
The Fund seeks total return through capital appreciation and current income.
Why people hold it
- Actual stock picking. The portfolio is built on Matrix's own definition of value, not an off-the-shelf index screen, and the fund says so in its prospectus.
- The strategy dates to 1996, meaning it has run through the dot-com bust, 2008 and everything since. Track records that long are scarce in the value-ETF aisle.
- Two jobs, stated plainly: capital appreciation and current income. Shareholders get distributions on a set annual or semiannual rhythm.
- Simple plumbing. A standard 1940 Act US equity fund with no leverage or exotic wrapper mechanics to decode before you own it.
Worth knowing
- The 0.75% expense ratio sits above the typical US value fund's 0.55%, and well above index-built peers like AVLV (0.15%) and WTV (0.12%). Active judgment is the thing you're paying for.
- Small and thinly traded. Spreads can run wider than at the aisle's giants, and sizable orders can push the price around.
- In a crowded field of 50-plus US value funds, our review lands it near the back, mostly on cost and trading friction rather than how it follows its mandate.
MAVF Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 54%
- MSFT
Sectors
- Technology27.8%
- Financials23.7%
- Communication15.6%
- Consumer Discr.12.6%
- Health Care9.6%
- Cons. Staples6.9%
- Industrials3.9%
Geography
- United States92.65%
- Ireland7.35%
MAVF 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 | MAVF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.0% |
| 1 month | −0.1% |
| 3 months | +3.1% |
| 1 year | +18.9% |
| 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 | MAVF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.0% | |
| 2025 | +19.5% |
MAVF in the news
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MAVF Dividends
- $0.52 per share
- Irregular
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.52 |
MAVF Risk
- 15.0%
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.
- 1.19
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.
- −16.4%
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.
- 1.05
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MAVF Cost
- The middle half of US Active Value funds
- Median 0.55%
51 of the 66 US Active Value funds charge less.