Nuveen ESG Large-Cap Growth
$113.78−0.66 (−0.58%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.26%
- Fund size
- $3.0B
- 1Y return
- +14.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.10%
- Holdings
- 78
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $113.84
- 52W range
The ETF.net NULG Grade
Score 54 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.AScore 83Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 20Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 65Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 30Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 79Category rank
Our read on NULG
CMost ESG funds hand you the whole US market and call it a day. NULG picks a lane: a compact bench of large-cap growth names run through TIAA's own ESG screen, so the values filter and the style tilt arrive in one ticker.
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the TIAA ESG USA Large-Cap Growth Index, which holds ESG-screened equity securities issued by large-capitalization companies listed on U.S. exchanges.
Why people hold it
- A style box, not a blanket. It tracks the TIAA ESG USA Large-Cap Growth Index, pairing an ESG screen with an explicit growth tilt instead of a whole-market ESG blend.
- Running since 2016 under Nuveen, the TIAA-affiliated manager, and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades in reasonable day-to-day size.
- The label and the filings agree: US-listed large caps, growth style, ESG-screened, tracked closely against the stated index rather than drifting into manager discretion.
Worth knowing
- At 0.26% a year it lands near the ESG category median, but broad ESG index rivals such as XVV (0.08%) and ESGV (0.09%) charge a fraction of that.
- Roughly 70 holdings, all growth, means fewer places to hide. Single names and hot sectors move this fund more than they move a 500-stock ESG index fund.
- Cash comes once or twice a year, and ESG here means TIAA's definition of it, which will not match every investor's own screen.
NULG Holdings
- Stocks
- 78
- 45%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology50.4%
- Consumer Discr.14.7%
- Industrials10.1%
- Health Care9.6%
- Financials5.1%
- Communication4.7%
- Real Estate2.4%
- Materials2.2%
- Cons. Staples0.7%
Geography
- United States93.39%
- Ireland2.86%
- Singapore1.81%
- Uruguay1.50%
- United Kingdom0.44%
NULG 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 | NULG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.0% |
| 1 month | −0.2% |
| 3 months | −1.0% |
| 1 year | +14.4% |
| 3 years | +24.3% |
| 5 years | +12.3% |
| 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 | NULG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.0% | |
| 2025 | +14.1% | |
| 2024 | +23.8% | |
| 2023 | +42.7% | |
| 2022 | −28.4% | |
| 2021 | +28.2% | |
| 2020 | +39.5% |
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NULG Dividends
- 0.10%
- $0.11
- $0.11 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 4, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 18, 2023 | $0.25 |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.20 |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Dec 20, 2021 | $3.48 |
| Dec 17, 2020 | Dec 21, 2020 | $1.51 |
| Dec 27, 2019 | Dec 31, 2019 | $0.46 |
| Dec 26, 2018 | Dec 31, 2018 | $1.12 |
| Dec 26, 2017 | Dec 29, 2017 | $0.19 |
NULG Risk
- 17.6%
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.
- 0.95
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.
- −36.1%
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.
- 1.24
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NULG Cost
- The middle half of US ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.23%
25 of the 48 US ESG & Values Index funds charge less.