Virtus Newfleet Securitized Income ETF
$23.83−0.04 (−0.19%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.39%
- Fund size
- $111M
- 1Y return
- +2.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.09%
- Holdings
- 198
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $23.84
- 52W range
The ETF.net VABS Grade
Score 40 of 100 sits in the C 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 42Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.FScore 4Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 82Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 24Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 82Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 48Category rank
Our read on VABS
CThe agency-mortgage aisle is wall-to-wall cheap index trackers. VABS is the odd one out: an actively managed securitized-income fund from Virtus, run by the Newfleet bond team since its 2021 launch, paying monthly.
The Fund seeks income through an actively managed exchange-traded fund strategy.
Why people hold it
- No index to hug. The managers choose their spots across securitized bonds and can reposition as the market shifts, something the passive mortgage trackers in this group (SPMB, VMBS, MBB) are not built to do.
- Income is the stated job, and the cash arrives monthly rather than on a quarterly drip.
- Spread across roughly 200 bond positions, so no single deal carries the portfolio. Diversification is one of this fund's stronger suits within its mortgage-bond peer group.
- Despite being the active outlier in a cohort of low-cost giants, it lands in the upper half of its mortgage-bond peer group on our overall read.
Worth knowing
- Active management carries an active price: 0.39% a year, versus 0.03% at VMBS and 0.04% at SPMB and MBB. You are paying for the manager's judgment, not the index.
- A small fund that trades thinly next to the index heavyweights, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads and more care needed on order size and timing.
- With no benchmark to track, results ride on the team's security selection rather than on a published index you can look up in advance.
VABS Holdings
- Bonds
- 198
- 18%
- FR SL1127 6.000% 12/01/2054
Geography
- United States100.00%
VABS 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 | VABS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.0% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +2.6% |
| 3 years | +5.9% |
| 5 years | +3.3% |
| 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 | VABS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.0% | |
| 2025 | +5.4% | |
| 2024 | +7.6% | |
| 2023 | +7.6% | |
| 2022 | −5.2% | |
| 2021 | +0.4% |
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VABS Dividends
- 5.09%
- $1.22
- $0.12 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 28, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.08 |
| May 20, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 27, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 | $0.10 |
VABS Risk
- 1.7%
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.
- 0.91
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.
- −6.9%
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.
- 0.20
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VABS Cost
- The middle half of Mortgage-Backed Securities funds
- Median 0.32%
13 of the 24 Mortgage-Backed Securities funds charge less.