WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Growth Fund
$32.88−0.28 (−0.84%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $12M
- 1Y return
- +16.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.54%
- Holdings
- 363
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $32.90
- 52W range
The ETF.net QSML Grade
Score 47 of 100 sits in the C 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 92Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 19Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 7Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 81Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 30Category rank
Our read on QSML
CSmall-cap indexes are stuffed with companies that don't earn money. QSML screens the US small-cap field on growth and profitability, keeps the top 30% of scorers, and leaves out banks, utilities and real estate by rule. Roughly 400 names, market-cap weighted.
The Fund uses passive indexing and representative sampling to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Growth Index. It normally invests at least 80% of net assets in index constituents issued by small-cap U.S. companies.
Why people hold it
- Ranks the small-cap universe on equally weighted growth and quality scores and keeps only the top 30%, leaving out the unprofitable story stocks that fill broad small-cap indexes.wisdomtree.comsec.gov
- Real estate, utilities and banks are excluded by rule, tilting the portfolio toward operating businesses instead of rate-sensitive balance sheets.wisdomtree.com
- Roughly 400 holdings, market-cap weighted, with at least 80% of assets in index constituents and rules published in advance. No manager hunches.
Worth knowing
- The 0.38% fee runs above the median for US multifactor ETFs, and large-cap factor staples like ILCV (0.04%) and VONV (0.06%) charge a fraction of it.
- Launched in 2024, still small and thinly traded: spreads can be wider than in the giant small-cap funds, and small young funds sometimes close.
- Skipping banks, utilities and real estate, plus the growth tilt, means the sector mix can sit far from broad small-cap benchmarks in either direction.wisdomtree.com
QSML Holdings
- Stocks
- 363
- 7%
- TGTX
Sectors
- Technology24.3%
- Consumer Discr.16.8%
- Financials15.7%
- Health Care13.4%
- Industrials12.7%
- Cons. Staples7.4%
- Energy4.5%
- Communication2.8%
- Materials2.1%
- Real Estate0.2%
- Utilities0.1%
Geography
- United States97.39%
- Bermuda1.29%
- United Kingdom0.37%
- Canada0.33%
- Bahamas0.23%
- Ireland0.20%
- Puerto Rico0.19%
QSML 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 | QSML |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.2% |
| 1 month | −5.3% |
| 3 months | +4.4% |
| 1 year | +16.3% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | QSML |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.2% | |
| 2025 | +5.5% | |
| 2024 | +10.4% |
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QSML Dividends
- 0.54%
- $0.18
- $0.18 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Dec 6, 2024 | Dec 10, 2024 | $0.0024 |
QSML Risk
- 17.8%
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.
- 0.62
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.
- −28.5%
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.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QSML Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
60 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.