T. Rowe Price Total Return ETF
$38.74−0.39 (−1.00%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.31%
- Fund size
- $569M
- 1Y return
- +0.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.39%
- Holdings
- 905
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $39.04
- 52W range
The ETF.net TOTR Grade
Score 61 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 53Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 36Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 42Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 54Category rank
Our read on TOTR
BT. Rowe Price's counterpunch to the three-basis-point index crowd: a core bond fund run by managers, not a benchmark, chasing total return with income first and price gains second across roughly 900 holdings.
The fund seeks to maximize total return primarily through income and secondarily through capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- At 0.31%, it undercuts the typical fund in its aggregate-bond category, unusual for a portfolio steered by managers instead of an index.
- The portfolio tracks its stated job closely: maximize total return, income first, capital appreciation second. That discipline puts it in the upper half of a crowded category.
- Roughly 900 bond positions, and the payout cadence is monthly rather than quarterly.
Worth knowing
- The index heavyweights (BND, SPAB, SCHZ) charge 0.03%. Active management here runs about ten times that, a gap the managers have to work off.
- It trades thinly next to the household-name trackers, so spreads can run wider and large orders move the quote more.
- Launched in 2021, so its live record covers one rate cycle, not a full range of bond market weather.
TOTR Holdings
- Bonds
- 905
- 35%
- US 2YR NOTE (CBT) DEC26 XCBT 20261231
Sectors
- Financials67.7%
- Technology17.1%
- Communication4.9%
- Consumer Discr.4.7%
- Cons. Staples1.8%
- Health Care1.6%
- Industrials1.2%
- Materials0.4%
- Utilities0.4%
- Energy0.2%
- Real Estate0.1%
Geography
- United States86.08%
- United Kingdom2.06%
- Mexico1.47%
- Canada0.97%
- Luxembourg0.97%
- France0.75%
- Romania0.64%
- Argentina0.53%
- 6.54%
TOTR 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 | TOTR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.6% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | −1.1% |
| 1 year | +0.5% |
| 3 years | +4.9% |
| 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 | TOTR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.6% | |
| 2025 | +7.4% | |
| 2024 | +2.4% | |
| 2023 | +6.3% | |
| 2022 | −15.9% | |
| 2021 | +0.1% |
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TOTR Dividends
- 5.39%
- $2.11
- $0.17 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.17 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.19 |
TOTR Risk
- 5.5%
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.
- 0.03
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.
- −19.6%
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.
- 1.00
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
TOTR Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
50 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.