WisdomTree Mortgage Plus Bond Fund
$42.58−0.44 (−1.03%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $73M
- 1Y return
- +0.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.49%
- Holdings
- 170
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.83
- 52W range
The ETF.net MTGP 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.DScore 29Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 50Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 35Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 23Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 67Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 37Category rank
Our read on MTGP
DMost mortgage ETFs are index machines bolted to agency pass-throughs. MTGP is the active counterpunch: a manager picking across mortgage and other securitized debt, hunting income and price gains, and paying out monthly.
The fund is actively managed and seeks income and capital appreciation by investing in mortgage-related debt and other securitized debt.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed, not index-bound. The mandate reaches beyond plain agency paper into mortgage-related and other securitized debt, so a manager sets the mix instead of a benchmark.wisdomtree.com
- Pays monthly, which suits investors who want mortgage-bond income arriving on a regular cadence rather than quarterly.
- Spreads its bets across a couple hundred securitized positions, so no single pool or deal dominates the book.
- Running since 2019 under WisdomTree, giving the active approach a multi-year track record through a brutal stretch for mortgage bonds.
Worth knowing
- Active costs money: 0.45% a year, while index rivals like VMBS (0.03%) and SPMB (0.04%) charge a sliver of that. The manager has to out-earn the gap.
- Thinly traded and modest in size, so spreads can be wider than the giant index MBS funds and large orders may need care.
- On our combined read of cost, tradability and mandate delivery, it lands in the lower half of the mortgage-bond ETF pack.
MTGP Holdings
- Bonds
- 170
- 28%
- FNCL 5.5 10/16 5.5%
Geography
- United States100.00%
MTGP 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 | MTGP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.9% |
| 1 month | −1.1% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | +0.6% |
| 3 years | +4.7% |
| 5 years | −0.0% |
| 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 | MTGP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.9% | |
| 2025 | +7.6% | |
| 2024 | +2.5% | |
| 2023 | +4.0% | |
| 2022 | −11.3% | |
| 2021 | −0.6% | |
| 2020 | +4.1% |
MTGP in the news
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MTGP Dividends
- 4.49%
- $1.93
- $0.15 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.15 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.15 |
MTGP Risk
- 5.7%
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.
- 0.02
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.
- −16.3%
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.
- 1.00
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MTGP Cost
- The middle half of Mortgage-Backed Securities funds
- Median 0.32%
16 of the 24 Mortgage-Backed Securities funds charge less.