VanEck Mortgage REIT Income ETF
$8.94−0.26 (−2.77%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.43%
- Fund size
- $338M
- 1Y return
- −0.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 16.16%
- Holdings
- 27
- Volume · 30D
- 1M sh
- NAV per share
- $9.11
- 52W range
The ETF.net MORT Grade
Score 67 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.BScore 67Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 97Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 39Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 61Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 44Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 69Category rank
Our read on MORT
BLandlords collect rent. Mortgage REITs collect interest. MORT tracks an index of roughly two dozen of them, a pure play on the lending side of real estate that has been running since 2011.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MVIS US Mortgage REITs Index, representing U.S. mortgage REITs.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.43% a year, below the 0.51% median for real estate sector ETFs and well under niche peers like CLIM at 0.90%.
- Live since 2011, a long run for such a narrow slice of the market, and it still does one job: track the MVIS US Mortgage REITs Index.
- Rules-based and actively traded, so the holdings come from published index criteria rather than a manager's calls, and shares change hands readily.
- Distributions land on a quarterly schedule, in step with a segment whose businesses are built around interest income rather than rent checks.
Worth knowing
- Concentrated by design at roughly two dozen names, so one company's stumble carries real weight in the fund.
- Mortgage REITs borrow to hold mortgage assets, which makes this corner more sensitive to rate and credit swings than a property-owning REIT fund.
- One country, one industry. Cheaper real estate options exist (NURE at 0.35%), but they buy the landlords, not the lenders.
MORT Holdings
- Other
- 27
- 75%
- NLY
Sectors
- Real Estate100.0%
Geography
- United States100.00%
MORT Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
MORT$9,923
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 | MORT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −5.5% |
| 1 month | −7.2% |
| 3 months | −4.1% |
| 1 year | −0.8% |
| 3 years | +4.7% |
| 5 years | −2.7% |
| 10 years | +1.2% |
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 | MORT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −5.5% | |
| 2025 | +12.1% | |
| 2024 | +0.3% | |
| 2023 | +14.9% | |
| 2022 | −26.9% | |
| 2021 | +15.9% | |
| 2020 | −22.0% |
MORT in the news
MORT Dividends
- 16.16%
- $1.49
- $0.43 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Apr 4, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.36 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 4, 2024 | $0.32 |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Jul 5, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Apr 5, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.34 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Oct 6, 2023 | $0.34 |
MORT Risk
- 17.3%
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.
- 0.15
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.
- −42.5%
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.
- 0.93
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MORT Cost
0.43%
MORT0.43%
- The middle half of Real Estate Sector funds
- Median 0.53%
1 of the 6 Real Estate Sector funds charge less.