Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF
$59.36−0.35 (−0.59%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.28%
- Fund size
- $614M
- 1Y return
- +29.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.07%
- Holdings
- 50
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $59.75
- 52W range
The ETF.net QVAL Grade
Score 75 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 86Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 51Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 56Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 77Category 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.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on QVAL
ADeep value with no hedging: about 50 US stocks chosen by a rules-based quality-and-value screen, run by a boutique quant shop since 2014, at roughly half the fee of the typical active value fund.
The fund aims to grow investors' capital over the long term.
Why people hold it
- 0.28% a year against a 0.55% median for active US value funds. Cheap for a specialist quant strategy.
- About 50 names, screened on cheapness and quality together. A real bet, not a closet index in value clothing.
- Live since 2014, so the record spans value's long drought and its recoveries rather than a backtest.
- Top quartile of its US value peer group in our review, and it undercuts ITAN, the other fund drawn from the same Solactive US 1000 universe, on fee.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to the category's giants, so spreads can widen and limit orders matter more than with a mega-fund.
- Concentration cuts both ways. Roughly 50 deep-value names can drift far from the broad market, in either direction, for long stretches.
- The stated goal is long-term capital growth, with distributions paid quarterly rather than monthly.
QVAL Holdings
- Stocks
- 50
- 22%
- BBY
Sectors
- Consumer Discr.22.3%
- Health Care20.0%
- Energy19.4%
- Materials10.1%
- Cons. Staples7.6%
- Industrials7.3%
- Communication6.1%
- Technology5.9%
- Utilities1.3%
Geography
- United States98.07%
- Ireland1.93%
QVAL 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 | QVAL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +23.3% |
| 1 month | −4.2% |
| 3 months | +8.1% |
| 1 year | +29.8% |
| 3 years | +19.7% |
| 5 years | +13.4% |
| 10 years | +11.8% |
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 | QVAL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +23.3% | |
| 2025 | +11.0% | |
| 2024 | +12.2% | |
| 2023 | +28.4% | |
| 2022 | −11.8% | |
| 2021 | +34.4% | |
| 2020 | −5.9% |
QVAL in the news
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QVAL Dividends
- 1.07%
- $0.64
- $0.19 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Sep 15, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Jun 16, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Mar 13, 2025 | Mar 14, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Sep 13, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Jun 21, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Mar 13, 2024 | Mar 15, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.19 |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.14 |
QVAL Risk
- 14.0%
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.
- −27.1%
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.
- 0.69
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QVAL Cost
- The middle half of US Active Value funds
- Median 0.55%
8 of the 66 US Active Value funds charge less.