State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF
$149.39−0.53 (−0.35%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $21.0B
- 1Y return
- +11.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.52%
- Holdings
- 155
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $149.79
- 52W range
The ETF.net SDY Grade
Score 74 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.BScore 65Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 93Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 82Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 68Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 80Category rank
Our read on SDY
AThe aristocrat fund that doesn't stop at the S&P 500. It fishes the whole S&P Composite 1500 for companies with at least 20 straight years of dividend increases, then weights them by yield, so the fattest payers get the biggest seats.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index. The index selects S&P Composite 1500 companies with at least 20 consecutive years of dividend increases and weights them by indicated yield.
Why people hold it
- The bar is 20 consecutive years of dividend increases, drawn from the S&P Composite 1500, so seasoned mid- and small-cap raisers can make the cut alongside megacaps.ssga.com
- Weighting is by indicated yield, not market cap. Money flows toward the higher-yielding survivors of the screen rather than the biggest companies in it.ssga.com
- 0.35% a year, below the typical fee among dividend aristocrat index funds, and it holds roughly 160 names rather than a token handful.
- Trading since 2005, now a multi-billion-dollar fund that has stayed tight to its index. One of the strongest implementations in its aristocrat peer group.
Worth knowing
- Yield weighting is a tilt, not a neutral stance: the largest positions are the highest payers, which pulls the portfolio toward slower-growth, high-payout corners of the market.
- Not the cheap seat in the category. Sector-neutral dividend indexing is available for a fraction of the fee, for example SPDG at 0.05%.
- Distributions land quarterly, not monthly, and a long raise streak describes a company's past behavior, not a commitment.
SDY Holdings
- Stocks
- 155
- 20%
- VZ
Sectors
- Industrials17.0%
- Cons. Staples15.8%
- Utilities12.5%
- Financials11.9%
- Technology10.4%
- Health Care8.6%
- Consumer Discr.6.7%
- Materials6.0%
- Real Estate4.1%
- Energy3.8%
- Communication3.3%
Geography
- United States91.88%
- Ireland5.52%
- Switzerland1.38%
- United Kingdom0.97%
- Bermuda0.24%
SDY 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 | SDY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.8% |
| 1 month | −4.8% |
| 3 months | +1.0% |
| 1 year | +11.4% |
| 3 years | +11.5% |
| 5 years | +7.7% |
| 10 years | +9.1% |
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 | SDY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.8% | |
| 2025 | +8.2% | |
| 2024 | +8.4% | |
| 2023 | +2.6% | |
| 2022 | −0.5% | |
| 2021 | +25.4% | |
| 2020 | +1.8% |
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SDY Dividends
- 2.52%
- $3.78
- $0.92 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.92 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.97 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.87 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $1.02 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.87 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.93 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.82 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $1.03 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.79 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.86 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.71 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 20, 2023 | $0.98 |
SDY Risk
- 12.3%
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.
- 0.57
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.
- −15.2%
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.
- 0.58
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SDY Cost
- The middle half of Dividend Aristocrats funds
- Median 0.40%
1 of the 7 Dividend Aristocrats funds charge less.