Virtus Newfleet Short Duration Core Plus Bond ETF
$25.12−0.08 (−0.32%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $13M
- 1Y return
- +2.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.04%
- Holdings
- 198
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.18
- 52W range
The ETF.net SDCP Grade
Score 44 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.CScore 46Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.FScore 24Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 85Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 23Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 74Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 20Category rank
Our read on SDCP
CNewfleet keeps this one on a short leash: duration pinned to a 1 to 3 year band, investment-grade and liquid paper, income paid monthly. Total return with less of the rate whiplash a full aggregate portfolio carries.
The Fund seeks high total return, including current income, while limiting fluctuations in net asset value. Its strategy maintains duration within a 1–3 year range and invests primarily in investment-grade, more liquid fixed-income securities.
Why people hold it
- Duration is held to a 1 to 3 year band by mandate, so the portfolio takes far less interest-rate risk than a full aggregate bond fund.
- Active core-plus management across roughly 200 positions in investment-grade, more liquid sectors, with income paid out monthly.
- At 0.35% a year it lands near the middle of the broad bond ETF pack, which is not where actively run portfolios usually sit.
Worth knowing
- Index trackers like BND and SPAB charge 0.03%, so the active mandate here costs many times more than a plain aggregate tracker.
- Small and lightly traded beside the category's giants, which can show up as wider bid-ask spreads when you go to trade.
- Actively run, launched in late 2023: results ride on the team's sector and credit calls, with no index to measure them against.
SDCP Holdings
- Bonds
- 198
- 19%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.750% 08/15/2027
Geography
- United States87.04%
- United Kingdom4.76%
- Ireland2.48%
- Canada2.48%
- France1.49%
- Norway0.51%
- Netherlands0.40%
- Cayman Islands0.21%
- 0.64%
SDCP 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 | SDCP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.4% |
| 1 month | −0.4% |
| 3 months | +0.2% |
| 1 year | +2.7% |
| 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 | SDCP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.4% | |
| 2025 | +5.6% | |
| 2024 | +5.7% | |
| 2023 | +2.0% |
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SDCP Dividends
- 5.04%
- $1.27
- $0.12 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 28, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.10 |
| May 20, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 27, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 | $0.10 |
SDCP Risk
- 1.6%
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.
- 0.50
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.
- −0.8%
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.
- 0.07
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SDCP Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
57 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.