Virtus Newfleet Multi-Sector Bond ETF
$22.32−0.12 (−0.51%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $497M
- 1Y return
- +2.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.46%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.47
- 52W range
The ETF.net NFLT Grade
Score 57 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 41Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 56Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 74Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 47Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 98Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on NFLT
BMost funds benchmarked to the Agg just copy it. NFLT hands the keys to Newfleet's credit team instead, hunting income across US, international and emerging-market bond sectors, and paying out monthly.
The Fund seeks a high level of current income and, secondarily, capital appreciation. Its adviser uses credit research to pursue opportunities across undervalued areas of the bond markets.
Why people hold it
- Active by design: managers choose sectors rather than replicate the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate, and the mandate reaches into international and emerging-market debt the Agg barely touches.
- Spread thin on purpose. About 200 positions means no single bond decides the outcome, one of the better-diversified books among aggregate bond funds.
- Income comes first by charter: high current income is the stated primary goal, capital appreciation second, and distributions land monthly.
- Trading since 2015 with a mid-size asset base and moderate everyday volume, so it is well past the fragile-startup stage.
Worth knowing
- Active talent has a price tag: 0.50% a year, above the category median and a wide gap over index Agg trackers like BND, AGG and SPAB at 0.03%.
- Leaving the benchmark cuts both ways. Sector rotation and emerging-market bonds mean results can drift from the Agg in either direction.
- Hunting undervalued corners of the bond market means taking credit risk, not just interest-rate risk. Know which lever you are pulling.
NFLT Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 9%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.625% 02/15/2055
Sectors
- Financials96.3%
- Health Care1.2%
- Real Estate1.2%
- Technology1.2%
Geography
- United States59.64%
- Mexico2.83%
- Brazil2.18%
- Canada2.06%
- United Kingdom2.03%
- South Africa1.96%
- Ireland1.58%
- Malaysia1.48%
- 26.24%
Developed 25% · Emerging 75%
NFLT 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 | NFLT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.1% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −0.8% |
| 1 year | +2.7% |
| 3 years | +7.1% |
| 5 years | +2.7% |
| 10 years | +3.7% |
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 | NFLT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.1% | |
| 2025 | +8.8% | |
| 2024 | +6.0% | |
| 2023 | +9.2% | |
| 2022 | −9.5% | |
| 2021 | +1.2% | |
| 2020 | +8.0% |
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NFLT Dividends
- 5.46%
- $1.22
- $0.10 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 28, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.11 |
| May 20, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 27, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 | $0.10 |
NFLT Risk
- 4.3%
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.
- 0.56
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.
- −13.4%
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.
- 0.70
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NFLT Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
17 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.