Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF
$33.23−0.54 (−1.58%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Fund size
- $22.4B
- 1Y return
- +21.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.06%
- Holdings
- 1758
- Volume · 30D
- 2.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $33.60
- 52W range
The ETF.net SCHA Grade
Score 78 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 91Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 96Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 48Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 86Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 38Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 79Category rank
Our read on SCHA
ASchwab's small-cap workhorse: three basis points, roughly 1,700 companies, and a mandate to hold the slice of the US market that sits below the large and mid caps. Running since 2009.
The fund seeks to closely track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market Index. It generally invests in that index’s small-cap stocks and normally places at least 90% of net assets in them.
Why people hold it
- At 0.03% a year, it is tied for the cheapest fund in its small-cap peer group and a fraction of the 0.25% category median. The fee is the one variable you know in advance.
- Roughly 1,700 stocks, weighted by size. That is the whole small-cap tail rather than a curated shortlist, and no single name gets to steer the portfolio.
- The contract is plain: at least 90% of net assets in the Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market Index, and it has tracked that benchmark closely.
- Sixteen years old, multi-billion-dollar, actively traded, and pays quarterly. One of the sturdier implementations among the broad small-cap index funds we cover.
Worth knowing
- Small caps move harder than large caps in both directions. This fund takes the full ride with no hedge, buffer, or volatility damper in the design.
- The index sorts by size, not quality. Unprofitable and lightly covered companies come along with everything else, since no earnings screen sits in front of the portfolio.
- It follows a Dow Jones small-cap index, not the Russell 2000 that IWM and VTWO track, so its returns and headlines about that benchmark will not line up exactly.
SCHA Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,758
- 10%
- SNDK
Sectors
- Technology21.4%
- Health Care16.1%
- Financials16.1%
- Industrials14.3%
- Consumer Discr.9.5%
- Real Estate6.1%
- Energy4.9%
- Materials4.1%
- Communication2.8%
- Cons. Staples2.4%
- Utilities2.1%
Geography
- United States97.88%
- Bermuda0.74%
- Switzerland0.34%
- Puerto Rico0.28%
- Ireland0.27%
- United Kingdom0.15%
- Singapore0.09%
- Israel0.08%
- 0.17%
SCHA 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 | SCHA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +19.0% |
| 1 month | −3.1% |
| 3 months | −4.5% |
| 1 year | +21.2% |
| 3 years | +19.3% |
| 5 years | +7.4% |
| 10 years | +10.3% |
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 | SCHA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +19.0% | |
| 2025 | +11.6% | |
| 2024 | +11.2% | |
| 2023 | +18.5% | |
| 2022 | −19.8% | |
| 2021 | +16.4% | |
| 2020 | +19.3% |
SCHA in the news
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SCHA Dividends
- 1.06%
- $0.36
- $0.10 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Dec 15, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Dec 16, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Mar 25, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Dec 11, 2023 | $0.12 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Sep 25, 2023 | $0.08 |
SCHA Risk
- 19.4%
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.
- 0.68
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.
- −30.8%
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.
- 1.11
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SCHA Cost
- The middle half of US Small-Cap funds
- Median 0.20%
No US Small-Cap fund charges less.