Nuveen Short-Term REIT
$29.75−0.26 (−0.86%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $33M
- 1Y return
- +7.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.38%
- Holdings
- 29
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $30.02
- 52W range
The ETF.net NURE Grade
Score 63 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.AScore 85Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 48Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 60Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 52Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 64Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 50Category rank
Our read on NURE
BMost real estate ETFs buy the whole property market. NURE tracks a Dow Jones index built around the short-term REIT slice of US landlords, and it charges less than any other fund in its real estate peer group.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Select Short-Term REIT Index.
Why people hold it
- Cheapest in its real estate cohort at 0.35%, comfortably under the group median of 0.51% and below peers like MORT (0.43%), DESK (0.51%) and CLIM (0.90%).
- Narrow by design: it follows the Dow Jones U.S. Select Short-Term REIT Index rather than a hold-everything property benchmark, so you get one defined corner of US real estate.
- Plain plumbing. A 1940 Act US equity ETF running since 2016 against a published index, and it lands in the top quartile of its real estate peer group.
- Income arrives on a quarterly schedule, in line with how REIT rent flows are typically passed through.
Worth knowing
- A small fund that trades thinly. Spreads can run wider than in the giant REIT funds, which is where limit orders usually earn their keep.
- Roughly 30 names inside one sector. Single-company and single-property-type moves come through undiluted, with no broad market ballast.
- All-US equity REITs, so it rides American property and rate cycles with no overseas or bond offset.
NURE Holdings
- Other
- 29
- 57%
- VMRK
Sectors
- Real Estate100.0%
Geography
- United States100.00%
NURE Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
NURE$10,764
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 | NURE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.0% |
| 1 month | −6.8% |
| 3 months | −4.3% |
| 1 year | +7.6% |
| 3 years | +7.1% |
| 5 years | −0.4% |
| 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 | NURE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.0% | |
| 2025 | −7.5% | |
| 2024 | +6.7% | |
| 2023 | +13.0% | |
| 2022 | −28.5% | |
| 2021 | +53.4% | |
| 2020 | −7.3% |
NURE in the news
NURE Dividends
- 4.38%
- $1.31
- $0.30 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.38 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.29 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.29 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 18, 2023 | $0.35 |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.28 |
NURE Risk
- 17.5%
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.
- 0.20
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.
- −36.0%
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.
- 0.90
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
NURE Cost
0.35%
NURE0.35%
- The middle half of Real Estate Sector funds
- Median 0.53%
No Real Estate Sector fund charges less.