PIMCO RAFI Dynamic Multi-Factor U.S. Equity ETF
$65.67−0.23 (−0.35%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $298M
- 1Y return
- +19.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.37%
- Holdings
- 838
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $65.81
- 52W range
The ETF.net MFUS Grade
Score 65 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 49Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 96Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 86Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 29Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 69Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 53Category rank
Our read on MFUS
BOne ticker, four factors. MFUS tracks a RAFI index that blends value, momentum, quality and low volatility across roughly 800 US stocks, so no single style has to carry the load.
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the RAFI Dynamic Multi-Factor U.S. Index.
Why people hold it
- Value, momentum, quality and low volatility ride in the same wrapper, so you are not stuck holding one style through its cold spell.
- At 0.30% a year, the fee sits just under the typical US multi-factor fund, unusual for a rules-based strategy with this much machinery under the hood.
- It has hugged its RAFI index tightly, with very little drift between fund and benchmark. One of the cleaner tracking records among US multi-factor peers.
- Roughly 800 holdings spread the bet wide across US equities, and the fund pays out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to the category's household names, so spreads can widen. That matters most on large or hurried orders.
- Plain-vanilla rivals cost a fraction: VONV at 0.06% and FNDX at 0.25%. The multi-factor engineering has to earn that gap.
- Mid-sized rather than a category giant, and a shifting factor mix can behave quite differently from a straight index over any given stretch.
MFUS Holdings
- Stocks
- 838
- 17%
- INTC
Sectors
- Technology21.8%
- Health Care15.9%
- Financials12.0%
- Industrials11.9%
- Cons. Staples9.7%
- Consumer Discr.9.3%
- Energy8.5%
- Communication4.9%
- Materials2.8%
- Real Estate2.0%
- Utilities1.2%
Geography
- United States97.67%
- Ireland0.66%
- Singapore0.56%
- United Kingdom0.38%
- Bermuda0.32%
- Netherlands0.23%
- Switzerland0.12%
- Monaco0.04%
- 0.01%
MFUS 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 | MFUS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.3% |
| 1 month | −1.2% |
| 3 months | −0.9% |
| 1 year | +19.1% |
| 3 years | +21.4% |
| 5 years | +13.2% |
| 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 | MFUS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.3% | |
| 2025 | +16.0% | |
| 2024 | +20.2% | |
| 2023 | +12.2% | |
| 2022 | −5.8% | |
| 2021 | +24.1% | |
| 2020 | +10.7% |
MFUS in the news
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MFUS Dividends
- 1.37%
- $0.90
- $0.22 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 3, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Apr 3, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Dec 31, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 3, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Apr 4, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Oct 5, 2023 | $0.21 |
MFUS Risk
- 12.2%
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.
- 1.20
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.
- −18.2%
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.
MFUS Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
48 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.