State Street SPDR MSCI World StrategicFactors ETF
$155.76−1.22 (−0.78%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $176M
- 1Y return
- +14.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.77%
- Holdings
- 1223
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $156.78
- 52W range
The ETF.net QWLD Grade
Score 62 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 80Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 75Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 61Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 51Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on QWLD
BThree factor tilts (value, quality, low volatility) blended into one developed-world index instead of three separate bets. Live since 2014, priced below the typical multifactor peer, and it spans all 23 developed markets rather than an ex-US slice.
The fund seeks to track the total return of the MSCI World Factor Mix A-Series Index before fees and expenses. The index combines value, low-volatility, and quality exposures across large- and mid-cap stocks in 23 developed countries.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.30% a year against a 0.38% median for its multifactor peer group. Cheap for a strategy that runs three screens at once.
- The index blends value, quality and low volatility in one wrapper, so no single factor's cold spell drives the whole result. MSCI does the rebalancing; you hold one ticker.ssga.com
- Well over a thousand large- and mid-cap names across 23 developed countries. Most rivals here carve out the US; this one keeps the whole developed world in the basket.
- A decade-plus of live history under State Street, with tracking that has stayed tight to the index it advertises. It sits in the upper half of its multifactor cohort.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so spreads can run wider than the household-name international funds. Order type and size matter more here.
- Distributions land once or twice a year, not quarterly. Income-focused holders get a lumpier cadence.
- Cheaper multifactor options exist: INTF charges 0.16% and FDEV 0.18%, though both fish in ex-US waters rather than the full developed world.
QWLD Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,223
- 18%
- MSFT
Sectors
- Technology24.9%
- Financials17.1%
- Health Care13.4%
- Industrials10.4%
- Communication9.5%
- Cons. Staples7.8%
- Consumer Discr.6.1%
- Energy3.8%
- Utilities3.5%
- Materials2.6%
- Real Estate1.0%
Geography
- United States64.45%
- Japan8.25%
- United Kingdom4.18%
- Switzerland3.83%
- Canada2.94%
- Germany2.33%
- France2.31%
- Netherlands2.19%
- 9.54%
Developed 98% · Emerging 2%
QWLD 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 | QWLD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.8% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | +4.5% |
| 1 year | +14.5% |
| 3 years | +17.4% |
| 5 years | +10.3% |
| 10 years | +11.9% |
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 | QWLD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.8% | |
| 2025 | +17.9% | |
| 2024 | +14.5% | |
| 2023 | +19.6% | |
| 2022 | −13.3% | |
| 2021 | +21.6% | |
| 2020 | +10.2% |
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QWLD Dividends
- 1.77%
- $2.78
- $1.34 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 5, 2026 | $1.34 |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | $1.43 |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Jun 6, 2025 | $1.21 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $1.19 |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Jun 7, 2024 | $0.97 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.94 |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Jun 8, 2023 | $1.02 |
| Dec 16, 2022 | Dec 23, 2022 | $0.89 |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Jun 8, 2022 | $1.00 |
| Dec 17, 2021 | Dec 27, 2021 | $1.03 |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Jun 8, 2021 | $0.92 |
| Dec 18, 2020 | Dec 28, 2020 | $0.78 |
QWLD Risk
- 9.7%
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.
- 1.18
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.
- −22.8%
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.
- 0.77
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QWLD Cost
- The middle half of International Multifactor funds
- Median 0.35%
11 of the 30 International Multifactor funds charge less.