State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
$46.65−0.28 (−0.59%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.07%
- Fund size
- $7.4B
- 1Y return
- +12.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.39%
- Holdings
- 78
- Volume · 30D
- 1.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $47.00
- 52W range
The ETF.net SPYD Grade
Score 78 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.AScore 88Category 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.DScore 34Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 92Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 73Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 83Category rank
Our read on SPYD
AMost dividend ETFs hunt for companies that keep raising payouts. SPYD skips the courtship and goes straight for the yield: roughly 80 high-dividend names out of the S&P 500, for 0.07% a year.
The fund seeks to provide returns that generally correspond to the total return of the S&P 500 High Dividend Index before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- 0.07% a year against a 0.39% median across dividend-screen peers. It undercuts DGRO's 0.08% and sits a hair above SCHD.
- A pure yield screen, not a growth screen. Where VIG and DGRO buy payout raisers, SPYD takes the high-dividend end of the S&P 500. Different flavor of the same food group.
- Running since 2015, now a multi-billion-dollar fund and one of the more actively traded names in its cohort, so getting in and out is rarely the hard part.
- Pays quarterly and has tracked the S&P 500 High Dividend Index closely, which is the whole job for a fund like this.
Worth knowing
- About 80 stocks is a narrow slice. Screening on yield pulls the sector mix away from the broad S&P 500, and the ride can be bumpier than the index it comes from.
- A high yield is a ranking, not a promise. The index sorts on payout size, not on how reliably a company has grown or defended that payout.
SPYD Holdings
- Stocks
- 78
- 15%
- HPQ
Sectors
- Real Estate23.8%
- Cons. Staples15.2%
- Financials12.6%
- Utilities10.1%
- Consumer Discr.8.7%
- Technology7.3%
- Communication5.6%
- Energy5.1%
- Health Care4.2%
- Materials3.8%
- Industrials3.6%
Geography
- United States92.91%
- Ireland4.54%
- United Kingdom1.29%
- Switzerland1.26%
SPYD 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 | SPYD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.1% |
| 1 month | −5.9% |
| 3 months | +0.5% |
| 1 year | +12.8% |
| 3 years | +14.9% |
| 5 years | +8.6% |
| 10 years | +8.1% |
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 | SPYD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.1% | |
| 2025 | +4.6% | |
| 2024 | +15.3% | |
| 2023 | +4.0% | |
| 2022 | −1.1% | |
| 2021 | +32.8% | |
| 2020 | −11.5% |
SPYD in the news
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SPYD Dividends
- 4.39%
- $2.06
- $0.52 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.52 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.54 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.45 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.55 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.49 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.50 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.55 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.46 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.49 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.37 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 20, 2023 | $0.53 |
SPYD Risk
- 13.8%
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.
- 0.77
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.
- −22.2%
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.
- 0.64
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SPYD Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
5 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.