Nuveen ESG Dividend
$32.88−0.07 (−0.22%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.26%
- Fund size
- $55M
- 1Y return
- +16.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.30%
- Holdings
- 84
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $33.08
- 52W range
The ETF.net NUDV Grade
Score 51 of 100 sits in the C 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 48Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 47Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 82Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 31Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 69Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 24Category rank
Our read on NUDV
CMost ESG funds are the S&P 500 with the laggards screened out. NUDV starts somewhere else: higher-yielding US dividend payers, run through TIAA's ESG screens, landing at roughly 90 stocks.
The Fund seeks to track the TIAA ESG USA High Dividend Index before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- Two jobs, one ticket: it tracks the TIAA ESG USA High Dividend Index, so the income tilt and the values screen are built into the same rulebook.
- Roughly 90 US stocks, not a lightly edited 500. You get a real dividend concentration rather than the whole market with a few names shaved off.
- Income arrives on a quarterly schedule, the standard cadence for US dividend equity funds.
- Live since 2021 with a Nuveen wrapper around a TIAA-branded index, so the screening methodology and the manager come from the same house.
Worth knowing
- At 0.26% it sits just above its ESG peer group's median and roughly triple the broad screened index funds like ESGV (0.09%) and XVV (0.08%).
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so spreads can run wider than the household-name ESG funds and size orders deserve care.
- A dividend screen plus an ESG screen means a portfolio that can look nothing like the S&P 500, in either direction, in any given stretch.
NUDV Holdings
- Stocks
- 84
- 23%
- KO
Sectors
- Financials23.9%
- Health Care14.5%
- Technology13.2%
- Industrials11.6%
- Cons. Staples10.3%
- Utilities6.0%
- Consumer Discr.5.4%
- Real Estate4.4%
- Materials4.0%
- Communication3.9%
- Energy2.8%
Geography
- United States94.08%
- Ireland4.74%
- Netherlands1.18%
NUDV 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 | NUDV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +11.7% |
| 1 month | −3.9% |
| 3 months | +1.6% |
| 1 year | +16.7% |
| 3 years | +15.9% |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | NUDV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +11.7% | |
| 2025 | +10.8% | |
| 2024 | +14.2% | |
| 2023 | +10.1% | |
| 2022 | −7.8% | |
| 2021 | +8.9% |
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NUDV Dividends
- 2.30%
- $0.76
- $0.18 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $1.12 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.24 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 18, 2023 | $0.18 |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.15 |
NUDV 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.
- 0.85
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.
- −20.1%
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.
- 0.69
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NUDV Cost
- The middle half of US ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.23%
25 of the 48 US ESG & Values Index funds charge less.