First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF
$41.53−0.13 (−0.30%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.58%
- Fund size
- $11.1B
- 1Y return
- +10.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.99%
- Holdings
- 172
- Volume · 30D
- 1M sh
- NAV per share
- $41.80
- 52W range
The ETF.net SDVY Grade
Score 53 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.FScore 12Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 87Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 16Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 91Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 84Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 71Category rank
Our read on SDVY
CMost dividend-growth funds fish in blue-chip waters. SDVY takes the same idea down the size scale: a Nasdaq index of small and mid cap US companies with a record of raising their payouts, run by First Trust since 2017.
The Fund seeks to provide returns generally corresponding to the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq US Small Mid Cap Rising Dividend Achievers Index before fees and expenses. It normally invests at least 90% of net assets in securities included in that Index.
Why people hold it
- Rising-dividend screening applied where it is uncommon. The heavyweights of this category (SCHD, VIG, DGRO) sit in large caps; SDVY runs the screen across US small and mid caps instead.
- Rules, not hunches. At least 90% of net assets stay in the Nasdaq US Small Mid Cap Rising Dividend Achievers Index, which selects on dividend growth alongside growth and quality traits.
- Spread thin on purpose: roughly 190 holdings, a multi-billion-dollar asset base, and heavy day-to-day trading volume for a small/mid cap strategy. Distributions come quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Cost is the trade-off: 0.58% a year, above the dividend-screen median, and many times what the large-cap incumbents charge (SCHD 0.06%, VIG 0.04%).
- Smaller companies move harder in both directions, and this fund's ride has been rougher than that of large-cap dividend peers.
- It screens for dividends that are rising, not dividends that are large, so current income here generally runs below what high-yield-focused funds pay.
SDVY Holdings
- Stocks
- 172
- 10%
- NHC
Sectors
- Financials34.8%
- Industrials27.1%
- Technology9.6%
- Consumer Discr.9.3%
- Cons. Staples5.5%
- Materials4.1%
- Health Care3.5%
- Energy3.3%
- Communication2.7%
- Real Estate0.2%
Geography
- United States95.90%
- Puerto Rico2.13%
- Bermuda1.41%
- Bahamas0.38%
- Ireland0.17%
SDVY 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 | SDVY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.2% |
| 1 month | −5.0% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | +10.3% |
| 3 years | +15.8% |
| 5 years | +9.9% |
| 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 | SDVY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.2% | |
| 2025 | +8.4% | |
| 2024 | +11.2% | |
| 2023 | +28.6% | |
| 2022 | −12.0% | |
| 2021 | +29.1% | |
| 2020 | +11.7% |
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SDVY Dividends
- 0.99%
- $0.41
- $0.09 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.18 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.10 |
SDVY Risk
- 18.3%
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.
- 0.61
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.
- −26.1%
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.
- 1.02
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SDVY Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
45 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.