ETC 6 Meridian Quality Growth ETF
$33.67−0.09 (−0.27%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.31%
- Fund size
- $61M
- 1Y return
- +0.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.00%
- Holdings
- 83
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $33.63
- 52W range
The ETF.net SXQG Grade
Score 67 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 94Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 63Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 55Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 23Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 80Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 45Category rank
Our read on SXQG
BAn advisor's in-house quant model in ETF form. SXQG actively picks US stocks that score high on quality, profitability, growth and momentum, and measures itself against the Russell 1000 Growth instead of tracking it.
The Fund seeks capital appreciation through active investment primarily in equity securities, mainly common stocks. Its quantitative selection process emphasizes companies with comparatively high quality and growth characteristics.
Why people hold it
- The screen is spelled out: quality, profitability, growth and momentum, applied quantitatively to US stocks. You know what the model is hunting for.
- The Russell 1000 Growth is the yardstick, not the leash. The mandate is active, so the portfolio can look different from the index it gets compared to.
- Trading since 2021, so there is a multi-year live record to judge rather than a backtest.
- Clean, single-market mandate: US equities, mainly common stocks, no sleeves of bonds or overseas names to untangle.
Worth knowing
- At 0.70% a year it runs above the typical active US equity ETF, and far above cohort cost leaders like DFAU (0.12%) and AVLC (0.15%).
- Thinly traded, which generally means wider bid-ask spreads and more care on order entry than a household-name large-cap fund.
- Distributions come once or twice a year. This is a capital appreciation mandate, not a steady income stream.
SXQG Holdings
- Stocks
- 83
- 43%
- AAPL
Sectors
- Technology34.4%
- Health Care16.4%
- Communication13.1%
- Financials12.9%
- Cons. Staples10.7%
- Consumer Discr.6.1%
- Industrials5.6%
- Energy0.6%
- Materials0.2%
Geography
- United States96.87%
- Ireland1.21%
- Sweden1.11%
- Cayman Islands0.39%
- Denmark0.24%
- Puerto Rico0.17%
SXQG 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 | SXQG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.5% |
| 1 month | +0.6% |
| 3 months | +8.9% |
| 1 year | +0.4% |
| 3 years | +12.8% |
| 5 years | +5.3% |
| 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 | SXQG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.5% | |
| 2025 | +4.4% | |
| 2024 | +18.8% | |
| 2023 | +28.3% | |
| 2022 | −23.9% | |
| 2021 | +12.6% |
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SXQG Dividends
- 0.00%
No distributions in the last 12 months.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2025 | Aug 29, 2025 | $0.0021 |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Jul 31, 2025 | $0.0088 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.01 |
| May 29, 2025 | May 30, 2025 | $0.0052 |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Apr 30, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Sep 12, 2023 | Sep 15, 2023 | $0.0051 |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 | $0.01 |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Dec 5, 2022 | $0.0079 |
| Jul 30, 2021 | Aug 4, 2021 | $0.00044 |
SXQG 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.
- 0.51
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.
- −34.0%
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.
- 0.92
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SXQG Cost
- The middle half of US Active Growth funds
- Median 0.56%
5 of the 89 US Active Growth funds charge less.