Nuveen ESG Large-Cap Value
$53.41+0.01 (+0.01%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.26%
- Fund size
- $2.5B
- 1Y return
- +25.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.38%
- Holdings
- 128
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $53.53
- 52W range
The ETF.net NULV Grade
Score 68 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 48Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 75Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 84Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 85Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 61Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 79Category rank
Our read on NULV
BMost ESG funds hand you the whole market with the worst offenders stripped out. NULV picks a lane: large-cap US value stocks that clear an ESG screen, tracking a TIAA index in a portfolio of roughly 100 names.
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of the TIAA ESG USA Large-Cap Value Index before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- A style-box slice, not a blend. It tracks the TIAA ESG USA Large-Cap Value Index, so the value tilt is the mandate rather than a byproduct of screening the market.
- Roughly 100 stocks instead of a screened S&P 500, so the value screen actually shows up in what you own.
- Trading since 2016 and now a billion-dollar-plus fund, so there is a real history here, not a launch-week ticker.
- Plain vanilla plumbing: a 1940 Act index ETF with no leverage, no derivatives overlay, nothing exotic to monitor. It lands in the upper half of its ESG peer group in our review.
Worth knowing
- At 0.26% a year, it costs more than the broad ESG index trackers at the top of this group, several of which sit under 0.15%. That is the toll for the value screen.
- Distributions arrive once or twice a year, not quarterly or monthly.
- The ESG screen sets the universe before the value ranking happens, so the holdings can look different from a conventional large-cap value index.
NULV Holdings
- Stocks
- 128
- 31%
- MSFT
Sectors
- Technology27.3%
- Financials17.2%
- Health Care13.7%
- Industrials10.1%
- Cons. Staples9.2%
- Communication7.9%
- Utilities3.9%
- Energy3.6%
- Real Estate3.1%
- Materials2.8%
- Consumer Discr.1.4%
Geography
- United States94.99%
- Ireland3.51%
- Netherlands1.44%
- United Kingdom0.06%
NULV 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 | NULV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +18.5% |
| 1 month | +0.1% |
| 3 months | +7.1% |
| 1 year | +25.4% |
| 3 years | +18.6% |
| 5 years | +9.9% |
| 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 | NULV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +18.5% | |
| 2025 | +16.3% | |
| 2024 | +11.9% | |
| 2023 | +7.6% | |
| 2022 | −10.0% | |
| 2021 | +23.4% | |
| 2020 | +1.9% |
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NULV Dividends
- 1.38%
- $0.74
- $0.74 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.74 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.82 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 18, 2023 | $0.92 |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.73 |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Dec 20, 2021 | $1.76 |
| Dec 17, 2020 | Dec 21, 2020 | $0.47 |
| Dec 27, 2019 | Dec 31, 2019 | $0.48 |
| Dec 26, 2018 | Dec 31, 2018 | $0.97 |
| Dec 26, 2017 | Dec 29, 2017 | $0.35 |
NULV Risk
- 13.0%
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.
- 0.97
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.
- −21.5%
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.
- 0.82
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NULV Cost
- The middle half of US ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.23%
25 of the 48 US ESG & Values Index funds charge less.