First Trust Bloomberg Shareholder Yield ETF
$45.40−0.14 (−0.31%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $16M
- 1Y return
- +8.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.63%
- Holdings
- 50
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.07
- 52W range
The ETF.net SHRY Grade
Score 31 of 100 sits in the D 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 14Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.DScore 39Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 56Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 26Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 30Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 45Category rank
Our read on SHRY
DSHRY tracks Bloomberg's Shareholder Yield Index: about 50 US stocks, rules-based, paid out quarterly. A concentrated take on the cash-back-to-owners theme, priced at 0.60% in an aisle stocked with cheaper options.
The Fund seeks to track the price and yield of the Bloomberg Shareholder Yield Index before fees and expenses. It normally invests at least 80% of net assets in securities comprising that Index.
Why people hold it
- Concentrated by design: about 50 US names drawn from the Bloomberg Shareholder Yield Index, not a 500-stock blend where a single good idea gets diluted to a rounding error.
- Rules-based and legible: a 1940 Act ETF that normally keeps at least 80% of net assets in its named index's securities. The recipe is published, not improvised.
- Cash arrives on a schedule (quarterly), and the fund has been live since 2017, so there are years of real-world results to inspect instead of a backtest.
Worth knowing
- Cost is the headwind: 0.60% a year against a 0.32% median for its multifactor peer group, with cohort anchors like VYM (0.04%) and FNDX (0.25%) sitting far below.
- A small asset base and light trading volume tend to mean wider bid-ask spreads, so more of the cost shows up in the trade itself.
- With roughly 50 holdings, individual names and sector tilts carry real weight, and results can drift from a broad US index in either direction.
SHRY Holdings
- Stocks
- 50
- 41%
- HPQ
Sectors
- Technology24.8%
- Financials20.8%
- Communication14.7%
- Health Care10.9%
- Cons. Staples9.9%
- Energy7.4%
- Consumer Discr.5.4%
- Industrials5.3%
- Materials0.8%
Geography
- United States91.73%
- Ireland6.14%
- Switzerland1.34%
- United Kingdom0.79%
SHRY 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 | SHRY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.5% |
| 1 month | −4.6% |
| 3 months | +8.2% |
| 1 year | +8.9% |
| 3 years | +15.4% |
| 5 years | +8.7% |
| 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 | SHRY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.5% | |
| 2025 | +7.3% | |
| 2024 | +17.3% | |
| 2023 | +17.5% | |
| 2022 | −14.2% | |
| 2021 | +30.5% | |
| 2020 | +11.8% |
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SHRY Dividends
- 1.63%
- $0.74
- $0.20 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.17 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.11 |
SHRY Risk
- 13.5%
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.
- 0.81
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.
- −23.9%
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.
- 0.70
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SHRY Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
81 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.