ProShares - S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF
$55.31−0.47 (−0.83%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $11.2B
- 1Y return
- +11.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.09%
- Holdings
- 71
- Volume · 30D
- 1.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $55.48
- 52W range
The ETF.net NOBL Grade
Score 69 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 65Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 88Category 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.AScore 79Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 71Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 70Category rank
Our read on NOBL
BDividend investing without the yield chase. NOBL holds roughly 70 S&P 500 companies picked for their records as dividend growers, not for the fattest payout on the screen. A purist's take on the theme, running since 2013.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index.
Why people hold it
- The screen is the product: a slice of about 70 names pulled from the S&P 500 on dividend-growth credentials, not headline yield.
- At 0.35% a year, it sits below the typical fee in its dividend-growth peer group and matches SDY, the other big S&P dividend index fund.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, and it has tracked its index tightly. One of the stronger builds in its niche.
Worth knowing
- Mid-priced, not cheap. Broad sector-neutral dividend index funds such as SPDG charge a fraction of NOBL's 0.35%.
- Roughly 70 stocks means real single-name and sector concentration next to the full S&P 500, and it is all-equity, so market drawdowns come through.
- Cash lands quarterly, not monthly, and the mandate rewards payout consistency rather than the biggest current yield.
NOBL Holdings
- Stocks
- 71
- 17%
- BDX
Sectors
- Cons. Staples22.8%
- Industrials19.9%
- Financials13.3%
- Health Care11.0%
- Materials10.0%
- Consumer Discr.5.8%
- Utilities5.4%
- Technology4.9%
- Real Estate3.9%
- Energy3.2%
Geography
- United States92.83%
- Switzerland2.88%
- United Kingdom2.63%
- Ireland1.66%
NOBL 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 | NOBL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.3% |
| 1 month | −5.1% |
| 3 months | +2.4% |
| 1 year | +11.0% |
| 3 years | +9.6% |
| 5 years | +6.5% |
| 10 years | +9.7% |
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 | NOBL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.3% | |
| 2025 | +6.8% | |
| 2024 | +6.7% | |
| 2023 | +8.1% | |
| 2022 | −6.5% | |
| 2021 | +25.5% | |
| 2020 | +8.4% |
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NOBL Dividends
- 2.09%
- $1.16
- $0.30 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.33 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jul 1, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Apr 1, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | $0.26 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.33 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | $0.26 |
NOBL Risk
- 12.8%
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.
- 0.41
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.
- −17.9%
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.
- 0.62
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NOBL Cost
- The middle half of Dividend Aristocrats funds
- Median 0.40%
1 of the 7 Dividend Aristocrats funds charge less.