State Street SPDR MSCI EAFE StrategicFactors ETF
$98.59−1.28 (−1.28%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $1.0B
- 1Y return
- +17.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.74%
- Holdings
- 627
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $99.54
- 52W range
The ETF.net QEFA Grade
Score 65 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.BScore 60Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 99Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 65Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 75Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 58Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 75Category rank
Our read on QEFA
BOne ticker, three factors. QEFA holds developed-market stocks outside the US through a single MSCI index that blends low volatility, quality and value, so you don't have to pick a lane or bolt three funds together.
The fund seeks to track the MSCI EAFE Factor Mix A-Series Index, using a Smart Beta strategy that combines low-volatility, quality, and value exposures.
Why people hold it
- Combines low volatility, quality and value in one MSCI index instead of leaving you to buy and rebalance three single-factor funds.ssga.com
- 0.30% a year undercuts the typical fund in its international multifactor group, and the portfolio spreads across roughly 600 developed-market stocks.
- Tracks its index tightly, one of the cleaner implementations in its peer group, and it has been running as a multi-billion-dollar fund since 2014.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded for its size. Spreads can widen during US hours, when the European and Japanese markets its stocks trade on are closed.
- Cheaper seats in the same aisle: INTF charges 0.16% and FDEV 0.18%.
- EAFE is developed markets only. No US stocks, no emerging markets, and payouts arrive once or twice a year rather than quarterly.
QEFA Holdings
- Stocks
- 627
- 15%
- ASML
Sectors
- Financials20.6%
- Health Care14.5%
- Technology13.6%
- Industrials13.0%
- Consumer Discr.8.6%
- Energy6.7%
- Materials6.0%
- Cons. Staples5.7%
- Communication5.6%
- Utilities3.4%
- Real Estate2.4%
Geography
- Japan23.87%
- United Kingdom13.97%
- Switzerland11.93%
- France7.58%
- Germany7.29%
- Australia5.65%
- Netherlands4.92%
- Spain3.54%
- 21.25%
Developed 98% · Emerging 2%
QEFA 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 | QEFA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +11.9% |
| 1 month | −2.0% |
| 3 months | +4.4% |
| 1 year | +17.2% |
| 3 years | +17.1% |
| 5 years | +8.3% |
| 10 years | +8.8% |
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 | QEFA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +11.9% | |
| 2025 | +29.2% | |
| 2024 | +2.3% | |
| 2023 | +17.4% | |
| 2022 | −14.0% | |
| 2021 | +12.5% | |
| 2020 | +6.7% |
QEFA in the news
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QEFA Dividends
- 2.74%
- $2.74
- $1.50 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 5, 2026 | $1.50 |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | $1.24 |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Jun 6, 2025 | $1.59 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.94 |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Jun 7, 2024 | $1.36 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.81 |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Jun 8, 2023 | $1.23 |
| Dec 16, 2022 | Dec 23, 2022 | $0.66 |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Jun 8, 2022 | $1.28 |
| Dec 17, 2021 | Dec 27, 2021 | $0.89 |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Jun 8, 2021 | $0.93 |
| Dec 18, 2020 | Dec 28, 2020 | $0.53 |
QEFA Risk
- 11.1%
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.
- 1.06
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.
- −27.4%
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.
- 0.80
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QEFA Cost
- The middle half of International Multifactor funds
- Median 0.35%
11 of the 30 International Multifactor funds charge less.