TBG Dividend Focus ETF
$37.10−0.26 (−0.68%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $282M
- 1Y return
- +15.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.65%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $37.45
- 52W range
The ETF.net TBG Grade
Score 56 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.CScore 44Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 68Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 81Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 44Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on TBG
BAn active stock picker in an aisle ruled by index screens: TBG seeks income plus long-term appreciation, pays quarterly, and already sits in the upper half of its active-dividend peer group despite launching in late 2023.
The Fund seeks income and long-term capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed high-dividend mandate: a manager choosing stocks for income and long-term capital appreciation, not a rules-based yield screen rebalanced on a calendar.
- Distributions land on a quarterly schedule, the standard cadence for dividend-equity funds.
- Stands in the upper half of the active dividend-income ETFs we cover, a field of thirty-plus competitors, with risk control and trading quality its stronger traits.
Worth knowing
- The 0.59% fee sits above the category median and above top-ranked rivals like CGDV (0.33%) and HIDV (0.35%), so the stock picking carries that extra load.
- Launched November 2023, so the track record is short and has not spanned a full market cycle.
- Volume is light next to the dividend aisle's giants, and the asset base is modest, which can mean wider bid/ask spreads on bigger orders.
TBG Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 40%
- First American Government Obligations Fund 12/01/2031
Sectors
- Health Care16.5%
- Financials15.5%
- Energy13.7%
- Cons. Staples10.6%
- Consumer Discr.10.0%
- Technology8.6%
- Real Estate7.8%
- Utilities6.0%
- Communication5.8%
- Industrials4.1%
- Materials1.5%
Geography
- United States94.51%
- Ireland3.70%
- Canada1.79%
TBG 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 | TBG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.4% |
| 1 month | −5.0% |
| 3 months | +3.1% |
| 1 year | +15.6% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | TBG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.4% | |
| 2025 | +7.5% | |
| 2024 | +20.6% | |
| 2023 | +9.6% |
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TBG Dividends
- 2.65%
- $0.99
- $0.25 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.29 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Apr 16, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Jan 3, 2024 | $0.13 |
TBG Risk
- 11.4%
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.
- 1.24
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.
- −14.8%
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.
- 0.59
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
TBG Cost
- The middle half of US Active Dividend Income funds
- Median 0.51%
8 of the 40 US Active Dividend Income funds charge less.