Motley Fool Value Factor ETF
$21.39−0.05 (−0.22%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $7M
- 1Y return
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- Yield · Last 12 months
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- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $21.61
- 52W range
The ETF.net MFVL 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 17Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 51Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 19Category 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.DScore 28Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 8Category rank
Our read on MFVL
DMotley Fool's stock-picking brand, boiled down to a rules-based value index. It opened in December 2025 at 0.50% a year, well above the value-ETF norm, and its record starts from scratch.
The Fund seeks investment results corresponding generally to the total-return performance of the Motley Fool Value Index.
Why people hold it
- The mandate fits on a napkin: track the Motley Fool Value Index. One factor, value, stated on the tin, with no blended-style small print to decode.
- The Fool's value view arrives as a named, published index rather than a manager's discretion, so the holdings follow a written screen you can look up.
Worth knowing
- At 0.50% a year, it costs multiples of the cohort's cheap giants: VTV charges 0.03% and SCHV 0.04% for large-cap value exposure.
- It launched in December 2025, so there is no multi-year record and no full market cycle showing how the screen behaves.
- Assets are small and trading is light, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads than the household names in the same category.
MFVL Holdings
- Stocks
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- 47%
- CRM
Geography
- United States100.00%
MFVL 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 | MFVL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +5.6% |
| 1 month | −6.0% |
| 3 months | +9.0% |
| 1 year | — |
| 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 | MFVL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +5.6% | |
| 2025 | +1.3% |
MFVL in the news
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MFVL Dividends
Listed Dec 2025. No distributions yet.
MFVL Risk
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 0.28
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MFVL Cost
- The middle half of US Value Index funds
- Median 0.20%
33 of the 41 US Value Index funds charge less.