Northern Trust Developed Markets ex-US Quality Low Volatility ETF
$33.67−0.20 (−0.60%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $52M
- 1Y return
- +12.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.05%
- Holdings
- 214
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $33.79
- 52W range
The ETF.net QLVD Grade
Score 71 of 100 sits in the A 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 87Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 73Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 72Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 45Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 70Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 44Category rank
Our read on QLVD
ATwo screens, one fund: QLVD holds developed-market stocks outside the US that are both financially sturdy and historically calm, and it does it at the lowest fee in its international factor group.
The fund is designed to provide exposure to developed-market companies outside the United States that have lower absolute volatility and financial strength and stability, the characteristics the issuer associates with quality.
Why people hold it
- At 0.15%, the cheapest fund in its international factor group, under EFAV (0.20%) and IDHQ (0.29%) and well below the 0.41% cohort median.
- Two screens, not one: the Northern Trust index wants financial strength and stability plus lower absolute volatility, so a cheap-but-shaky stock does not qualify.flexshares.com
- Roughly 200 developed-market names outside the US, live since 2019, paying quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded, so limit orders carry more weight here than with a heavily traded peer.
- Smaller by assets than the household-name min-vol options, which is worth knowing if you weigh a fund's staying power.
- The quality and low-volatility screens steer away from the market's hottest names, so results can diverge from a plain developed-markets index in either direction.
QLVD Holdings
- Stocks
- 214
- 22%
- NOVN.SW
Sectors
- Financials24.2%
- Industrials15.2%
- Cons. Staples11.8%
- Health Care9.5%
- Utilities7.2%
- Technology6.6%
- Communication5.7%
- Energy5.6%
- Consumer Discr.5.2%
- Real Estate4.9%
- Materials4.1%
Geography
- Japan21.31%
- Canada15.03%
- Switzerland11.90%
- United Kingdom8.98%
- France5.33%
- Germany5.28%
- Singapore5.13%
- Hong Kong4.99%
- 22.05%
Developed 97% · Emerging 3%
QLVD 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 | QLVD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.9% |
| 1 month | −2.5% |
| 3 months | +5.7% |
| 1 year | +12.6% |
| 3 years | +14.4% |
| 5 years | +6.9% |
| 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 | QLVD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.9% | |
| 2025 | +24.2% | |
| 2024 | +4.7% | |
| 2023 | +11.6% | |
| 2022 | −12.1% | |
| 2021 | +9.1% | |
| 2020 | +3.0% |
QLVD in the news
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QLVD Dividends
- 3.05%
- $1.03
- $0.19 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 24, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.51 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.41 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.45 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.24 |
QLVD Risk
- 10.8%
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.
- 0.89
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.
- −23.4%
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.
- 0.64
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QLVD Cost
- The middle half of International Quality Index funds
- Median 0.29%
No International Quality Index fund charges less.