American Century STOXX U.S. Quality Value ETF
$70.72−0.27 (−0.38%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.29%
- Fund size
- $331M
- 1Y return
- +12.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.16%
- Holdings
- 222
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $70.88
- 52W range
The ETF.net VALQ Grade
Score 55 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.BScore 57Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 73Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 59Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 26Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 55Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 35Category rank
Our read on VALQ
BCheap stocks are sometimes cheap for a reason. VALQ's index screens U.S. large and mid caps for quality and income alongside valuation, so the bargain bin gets filtered before anything gets bought. Launched 2018, 0.29% a year.
The fund seeks to capture the performance of U.S. large- and mid-capitalization companies with attractive quality, valuation, and income fundamentals.
Why people hold it
- A three-way test: quality, valuation and income fundamentals across U.S. large- and mid-cap companies. Not a pure cheapness sweep.americancentury.com
- 0.29% a year undercuts the typical U.S. multifactor fund, and the portfolio spreads across roughly 220 stocks rather than a narrow bet.
- Income is written into the screen itself, not bolted on afterward, and the fund distributes quarterly.
- Rules-based, not manager hunch: it follows the American Century U.S. Quality Value Index and lands in the upper half of a crowded multifactor peer group.res.americancentury.com
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to the category's giants, so bid-ask spreads can run wider and larger orders can move the price.
- Broad value peers like VONV and VYM charge a fraction of this fee; the extra cost is what buys the quality and income screens.
- Those same filters make it behave differently from a plain value index, in either direction, over any given stretch.
VALQ Holdings
- Stocks
- 222
- 24%
- MRK
Sectors
- Technology26.7%
- Health Care15.8%
- Consumer Discr.13.8%
- Industrials13.2%
- Cons. Staples12.7%
- Communication7.5%
- Energy4.4%
- Financials3.7%
- Materials1.8%
- Real Estate0.3%
Geography
- United States97.85%
- Ireland1.16%
- Bermuda0.37%
- United Kingdom0.24%
- Singapore0.14%
- Switzerland0.12%
- Canada0.11%
VALQ 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 | VALQ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.7% |
| 1 month | −2.0% |
| 3 months | +3.7% |
| 1 year | +12.6% |
| 3 years | +15.5% |
| 5 years | +9.6% |
| 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 | VALQ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.7% | |
| 2025 | +10.6% | |
| 2024 | +16.7% | |
| 2023 | +13.9% | |
| 2022 | −7.7% | |
| 2021 | +27.1% | |
| 2020 | +0.6% |
VALQ in the news
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VALQ Dividends
- 2.16%
- $1.54
- $0.28 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Jun 11, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Mar 12, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.33 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.35 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 25, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.23 |
VALQ Risk
- 11.6%
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.
- 0.86
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.
- −20.2%
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.
- 0.71
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VALQ Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
40 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.