State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P Sector Neutral Dividend ETF
$45.34−0.20 (−0.43%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.05%
- Fund size
- $13M
- 1Y return
- +17.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.74%
- Holdings
- 273
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.68
- 52W range
The ETF.net SPDG Grade
Score 66 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.AScore 95Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 88Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 48Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 25Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 36Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 27Category rank
Our read on SPDG
BThe dividend-aristocrat idea at a discount-rack price. SPDG tracks a sector-neutral S&P index of long-running dividend payers for 0.05% a year, a sliver of what the household names in this corner charge.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the S&P Sector-Neutral High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index.
Why people hold it
- 0.05% a year, against a 0.40% median in its dividend-aristocrat peer group and the 0.35% charged by the older, bigger names SDY and NOBL.
- Sector-neutral by construction: the index constrains sector weights instead of letting a yield screen pile the portfolio into whichever corner pays most. Roughly 300 stocks.ssga.com
- Simple plumbing: US stocks, one published S&P index, quarterly distributions. No options overlay, no leverage, no active stock picking.
- Sits in the upper half of its aristocrat peer group in our review, largely because the fee is a fraction of the cohort's.
Worth knowing
- Small asset base and thin trading. Spreads can be wider than the crowded aristocrat funds, which matters more on larger orders than on small ones.
- Launched in 2023, so the record is short next to peers that have been running for well over a decade.
- Income here is a pass-through, not a policy: payouts arrive quarterly and rise or fall with what the underlying companies actually declare.
SPDG Holdings
- Stocks
- 273
- 42%
- CSCO
Sectors
- Technology36.8%
- Financials11.3%
- Communication10.1%
- Consumer Discr.9.8%
- Health Care9.3%
- Industrials9.3%
- Cons. Staples4.4%
- Energy3.2%
- Real Estate2.1%
- Utilities2.0%
- Materials1.5%
Geography
- United States95.15%
- Ireland3.33%
- Netherlands1.04%
- Bermuda0.20%
- Switzerland0.18%
- Singapore0.10%
SPDG 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 | SPDG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.0% |
| 1 month | −2.5% |
| 3 months | −0.9% |
| 1 year | +17.3% |
| 3 years | +19.2% |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | SPDG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.0% | |
| 2025 | +11.6% | |
| 2024 | +20.2% | |
| 2023 | +8.2% |
SPDG in the news
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SPDG Dividends
- 2.74%
- $1.25
- $0.30 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.29 |
SPDG Risk
- 11.8%
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.
- 1.30
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.
- −15.7%
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.
SPDG Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
1 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.