WisdomTree U.S. Efficient Core Fund
$59.41−0.80 (−1.32%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $1.4B
- 1Y return
- +12.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.07%
- Holdings
- 509
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $59.26
- 52W range
The ETF.net NTSX Grade
Score 80 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 94Category 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.BScore 61Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 72Category 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 93Category rank
Our read on NTSX
AStocks and Treasuries stacked on the same dollar. NTSX owns roughly 500 large U.S. companies, then layers Treasury futures on top, so one line item does the work of a balanced portfolio. Running since 2018.
The Fund seeks total return through investments in large-capitalization U.S. equity securities and U.S. Treasury futures contracts.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.20% a year, while the typical fund in its allocation peer group charges closer to four times that.
- The equity sleeve is a plain large-cap U.S. portfolio of roughly 500 names. The Treasury futures ride alongside as collateralized exposure, not as a stock-picking bet.wisdomtree.com
- Delivers its stated mandate with very little drift, and rates among the strongest builds in a crowded field of allocation funds.
- Sibling GDE runs the same capital-efficient playbook at the same 0.20% fee, swapping the Treasury leg for gold, if you want the mechanism pointed elsewhere.
Worth knowing
- Futures mean total market exposure runs above the fund's actual assets. When stocks and Treasuries fall together, the drop lands harder than in an unlevered balanced fund.
- Trades thinly for a multi-billion-dollar fund. Limit orders and quieter parts of the session matter more here than with the mega-cap index crowd.
- Income is a side effect of the structure, not the goal. Distributions come quarterly.
NTSX Holdings
- Other
- 509
- 44%
- CASH-DREYFUS TRSY CASH
Sectors
- Technology38.9%
- Financials12.6%
- Communication10.7%
- Consumer Discr.9.0%
- Health Care8.8%
- Industrials7.1%
- Cons. Staples4.9%
- Energy3.6%
- Utilities1.8%
- Materials1.4%
- Real Estate1.4%
Geography
- United States98.92%
- Ireland0.41%
- United Kingdom0.19%
- Switzerland0.16%
- Singapore0.08%
- Australia0.07%
- Uruguay0.05%
- Cayman Islands0.04%
- 0.08%
NTSX 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 | NTSX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.4% |
| 1 month | +0.7% |
| 3 months | +2.8% |
| 1 year | +12.6% |
| 3 years | +20.8% |
| 5 years | +8.7% |
| 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 | NTSX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.4% | |
| 2025 | +18.8% | |
| 2024 | +20.2% | |
| 2023 | +22.7% | |
| 2022 | −25.8% | |
| 2021 | +22.2% | |
| 2020 | +24.8% |
NTSX in the news
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NTSX Dividends
- 1.07%
- $0.64
- $0.16 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.14 |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Sep 28, 2023 | $0.13 |
NTSX Risk
- 13.5%
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.
- 1.01
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.
- −31.3%
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.
- 1.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NTSX Cost
- The middle half of Capital-Efficient Allocation funds
- Median 0.67%
No Capital-Efficient Allocation fund charges less.