Hartford Multifactor US Equity ETF
$67.06−0.18 (−0.27%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.19%
- Fund size
- $753M
- 1Y return
- +18.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.32%
- Holdings
- 367
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $67.43
- 52W range
The ETF.net ROUS Grade
Score 69 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.AScore 71Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 69Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 81Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 54Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 75Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on ROUS
BMost multifactor funds stack factors and hope. ROUS follows an index that blends value, quality, momentum and low volatility while explicitly aiming to run up to 15% less volatile than the market over a full cycle.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Hartford Multifactor Large Cap Index. The index uses multifactor selection and risk controls to seek enhanced return potential while reducing volatility by up to 15% over a complete market cycle.
Why people hold it
- Four factors in one ticker: value, quality, momentum and low volatility, selected by index rules rather than a manager's hunch.
- 0.19% a year, meaningfully below the typical fund in its multifactor peer group.
- The index carries its own risk controls and a stated aim of up to 15% lower volatility over a complete market cycle, not just factor tilts bolted together.
- Trading since 2015, across several very different market regimes, and one of the stronger builds in a crowded multifactor field.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to the mega index funds. Limit orders are the sensible default, and larger tickets need patience.
- Roughly 400 names weighted by rules, not market cap, so expect long stretches of looking nothing like the plain US large-cap benchmark, in either direction.
- Cheap for multifactor, but single-style peers such as VONV and VYM charge a fraction of it.
ROUS Holdings
- Stocks
- 367
- 11%
- AAPL
Sectors
- Technology36.0%
- Health Care11.6%
- Financials10.9%
- Industrials9.4%
- Consumer Discr.9.2%
- Communication7.0%
- Cons. Staples5.4%
- Utilities3.3%
- Energy2.8%
- Materials2.3%
- Real Estate2.0%
Geography
- United States96.08%
- Ireland1.76%
- Bermuda0.92%
- Switzerland0.65%
- United Kingdom0.27%
- Netherlands0.23%
- Sweden0.09%
ROUS 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 23, 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 | ROUS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.2% |
| 1 month | −1.2% |
| 3 months | +1.6% |
| 1 year | +18.9% |
| 3 years | +20.2% |
| 5 years | +12.3% |
| 10 years | +12.7% |
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 | ROUS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.2% | |
| 2025 | +15.2% | |
| 2024 | +17.6% | |
| 2023 | +15.0% | |
| 2022 | −9.6% | |
| 2021 | +27.3% | |
| 2020 | +6.6% |
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ROUS Dividends
- 1.32%
- $0.88
- $0.19 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Mar 25, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.27 |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.20 |
ROUS Risk
- 11.5%
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.
- 1.20
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.
- −18.9%
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.
- 0.84
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ROUS Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
26 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.