ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF
$70.04−0.07 (−0.10%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.36%
- Fund size
- $1.4B
- 1Y return
- +22.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.50%
- Holdings
- 51
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $70.29
- 52W range
The ETF.net SDOG 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.BScore 61Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 92Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 60Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 66Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 64Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 55Category rank
Our read on SDOG
BDogs of the Dow, run sector by sector. SDOG buys the five highest-yielding stocks in each of ten US sectors and weights them equally, so the usual yield pileup into utilities and energy can't swallow the portfolio. Running since 2012.
The Fund seeks to replicate, before fees and expenses, the performance of the S-Network Sector Dividend Dogs Index. That index selects the five highest-yielding stocks from each of ten U.S. GICS sectors, excluding real estate, and equally weights them.
Why people hold it
- Sector-neutral by construction: five top yielders from each of ten US GICS sectors, equally weighted. Yield hunting with guardrails instead of a bet on whichever sector happens to pay most.alpsfunds.com
- Roughly 50 names, equally weighted. No single mega-cap dominates the way it can in cap-weighted dividend funds.
- Trading since 2012, it tracks its index closely and ranks among the stronger implementations in its dividend-screen peer group. Income is paid quarterly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.36% a year, it costs multiples of the cap-weighted heavyweights (SCHD at 0.06%, VIG at 0.04%). The sector-equal-weight rulebook is what the extra buys.
- Real estate is excluded from the index outright, so REIT income never enters the portfolio.alpsfunds.com
- Screening for the highest yielders in each sector is a value tilt, and a fat yield sometimes marks a company the market has already knocked down.
SDOG Holdings
- Stocks
- 51
- 21%
- KMI
Sectors
- Consumer Discr.16.5%
- Technology12.1%
- Health Care10.7%
- Cons. Staples10.5%
- Energy10.3%
- Communication10.2%
- Financials9.7%
- Utilities9.0%
- Industrials7.3%
- Materials3.7%
Geography
- United States91.94%
- Ireland4.08%
- Switzerland2.01%
- Netherlands1.97%
SDOG 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 | SDOG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +19.2% |
| 1 month | −4.5% |
| 3 months | +4.2% |
| 1 year | +22.0% |
| 3 years | +18.4% |
| 5 years | +11.1% |
| 10 years | +9.5% |
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 | SDOG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +19.2% | |
| 2025 | +11.1% | |
| 2024 | +14.7% | |
| 2023 | +4.2% | |
| 2022 | −0.2% | |
| 2021 | +24.6% | |
| 2020 | −0.4% |
SDOG in the news
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SDOG Dividends
- 3.50%
- $2.45
- $0.63 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.63 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.66 |
| Mar 19, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.61 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $0.55 |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.56 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.56 |
| Mar 20, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.55 |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.54 |
| Sep 19, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.54 |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.54 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 26, 2024 | $0.56 |
| Dec 21, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.56 |
SDOG Risk
- 13.0%
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.
- 0.98
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.
- −19.8%
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.
- 0.62
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SDOG Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
22 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.