Principal U.S. Small-Cap Multi-Factor ETF
$67.18−0.70 (−1.03%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $2.7B
- 1Y return
- +18.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.53%
- Holdings
- 488
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $67.41
- 52W range
The ETF.net PSC Grade
Score 58 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.DScore 38Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 82Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 24Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 81Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 80Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 69Category rank
Our read on PSC
BMost multi-factor ETFs stack large caps. PSC aims the same momentum, quality and value screens at the small-cap end of the market, spreading across roughly 500 names and measuring itself against the Russell 2000.
The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital.
Why people hold it
- Roughly 500 small caps, ranked on momentum, quality and value together rather than one lone tilt, so no single stock steers the fund.
- Actively run on Principal's own quantitative model, with long-term growth of capital as the stated objective and the Russell 2000 as the yardstick.
- Its multi-factor cohort is crowded with large-cap value and dividend funds (VONV, VYM, FNDX). PSC is one of the few carrying the approach into small caps.
- A billion-dollar-plus fund with moderate daily turnover and standing in the upper half of its peer group. It pays distributions quarterly.
Worth knowing
- 0.38% a year runs above the typical multi-factor ETF, and well above the large-cap index trackers at the top of the cohort. That's the toll for an active quant sleeve.
- Small-cap equity swings harder and drops deeper than the large-cap names that dominate this peer group. Volatility is the roughest part of PSC's profile.
- The stock-picking model is proprietary, so you cannot reverse-engineer the portfolio from a published rulebook, and results can drift from the Russell 2000.
PSC Holdings
- Stocks
- 488
- 9%
- TXG
Sectors
- Health Care20.9%
- Financials18.3%
- Technology14.6%
- Industrials14.0%
- Consumer Discr.9.0%
- Real Estate5.4%
- Energy5.2%
- Materials4.8%
- Cons. Staples2.8%
- Utilities2.7%
- Communication2.2%
Geography
- United States93.01%
- Bermuda2.04%
- United Kingdom1.53%
- Ireland0.71%
- Monaco0.47%
- Brazil0.42%
- Canada0.38%
- Singapore0.36%
- 1.08%
PSC 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 | PSC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.9% |
| 1 month | −2.7% |
| 3 months | −0.4% |
| 1 year | +18.4% |
| 3 years | +19.7% |
| 5 years | +9.6% |
| 10 years | +11.6% |
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 | PSC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.9% | |
| 2025 | +13.4% | |
| 2024 | +12.4% | |
| 2023 | +18.5% | |
| 2022 | −15.9% | |
| 2021 | +32.5% | |
| 2020 | +13.3% |
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PSC Dividends
- 0.53%
- $0.36
- $0.09 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 3, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Apr 3, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 27, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 3, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Apr 4, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Jan 2, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Oct 5, 2023 | $0.09 |
PSC Risk
- 17.9%
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.
- 0.76
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.
- −25.9%
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.
- 1.00
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PSC Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
60 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.