ProShares - Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF
$73.23−0.90 (−1.21%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.40%
- Fund size
- $675M
- 1Y return
- +12.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.38%
- Holdings
- 102
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $73.93
- 52W range
The ETF.net SMDV Grade
Score 52 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.DScore 38Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 76Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 10Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 60Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 79Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 63Category rank
Our read on SMDV
CDividend-growth screens usually live in large-cap land. SMDV points one at the small-cap Russell 2000 instead, holding about 100 names selected for their dividend growth records, and it has run that way since 2015.
SMDV seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the Russell 2000 Dividend Growth Index.
Why people hold it
- A small-cap version of a large-cap idea: it tracks the Russell 2000 Dividend Growth Index, so the sorting rule is payout history rather than size or price momentum.
- Live since 2015 with assets in the hundreds of millions, it is a settled product in a corner of the market where new ideas often come and go.
- About 100 holdings and quarterly distributions make it a compact, income-oriented slice of US small caps, not a 2,000-stock index clone.
Worth knowing
- At 0.40% a year it runs above the typical fund in its factor group, and far above broad dividend options such as VYM at 0.04%.
- It trades thinly, so spreads and limit orders deserve more attention here than with a headline large-cap dividend fund.
- Narrow by design: roughly 100 small caps chosen on dividend history can move quite differently from the full Russell 2000.
SMDV Holdings
- Stocks
- 102
- 11%
- ABM
Sectors
- Financials31.6%
- Industrials22.6%
- Utilities17.3%
- Materials9.2%
- Real Estate5.6%
- Consumer Discr.4.9%
- Cons. Staples3.8%
- Health Care2.2%
- Technology1.7%
- Communication1.2%
Geography
- United States98.76%
- Ireland1.24%
SMDV 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 | SMDV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.4% |
| 1 month | −3.7% |
| 3 months | −0.2% |
| 1 year | +12.7% |
| 3 years | +11.9% |
| 5 years | +6.9% |
| 10 years | +6.8% |
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 | SMDV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.4% | |
| 2025 | +0.3% | |
| 2024 | +7.0% | |
| 2023 | +9.0% | |
| 2022 | −5.9% | |
| 2021 | +19.0% | |
| 2020 | −4.7% |
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SMDV Dividends
- 2.38%
- $1.76
- $0.41 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.55 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jul 1, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Apr 1, 2025 | $0.39 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.54 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Oct 2, 2024 | $0.43 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 3, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.64 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Sep 27, 2023 | $0.43 |
SMDV Risk
- 17.9%
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.
- 0.41
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.
- −21.2%
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.
- 0.78
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SMDV Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
32 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.