State Street SPDR S&P 1500 Value Tilt ETF
$242.44−1.25 (−0.51%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.12%
- Fund size
- $760M
- 1Y return
- +21.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.63%
- Holdings
- 1453
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $244.35
- 52W range
The ETF.net VLU Grade
Score 75 of 100 sits in the A 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 74Category 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.AScore 72Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 49Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 62Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 66Category rank
Our read on VLU
AMost value funds throw out half the market. VLU keeps all roughly 1,500 names in the S&P Composite 1500 and simply leans the weights toward the cheaper ones. Running since 2012.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return performance of the S&P 1500 Low Valuation Tilt Index.
Why people hold it
- Owns large, mid and small caps together and reweights toward cheap stocks rather than deleting rich ones, so the value lean comes without dropping half the US market.ssga.comus.spindices.com
- 0.12% a year, under the median fee among US value ETFs, for an all-cap portfolio of roughly 1,500 stocks.
- A plain rules-based index mandate with no manager discretion, and one of the stronger implementations in its value peer group.
- Live since 2012, so it carries a long record through both value droughts and value comebacks.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to the category giants, so bid-ask spreads and order size matter more than they would in a heavily traded fund.
- A tilt, not a purge: pricey stocks stay in at lower weights, so the value exposure is milder than a concentrated deep-value fund.ssga.comus.spindices.com
- Cheap for the category but not the floor. VTV and IUSV charge less, though they cover large-cap value only.
VLU Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,453
- 19%
- MSFT
Sectors
- Financials19.3%
- Technology18.9%
- Health Care12.6%
- Consumer Discr.9.5%
- Communication8.3%
- Energy7.8%
- Industrials7.4%
- Cons. Staples7.0%
- Real Estate3.2%
- Utilities3.2%
- Materials2.8%
Geography
- United States97.14%
- Ireland1.14%
- Switzerland0.54%
- United Kingdom0.49%
- Bermuda0.48%
- Netherlands0.08%
- Sweden0.06%
- Canada0.03%
- 0.04%
VLU 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 | VLU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.3% |
| 1 month | −1.2% |
| 3 months | +3.6% |
| 1 year | +21.9% |
| 3 years | +21.1% |
| 5 years | +13.3% |
| 10 years | +14.0% |
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 | VLU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.3% | |
| 2025 | +16.7% | |
| 2024 | +17.2% | |
| 2023 | +17.2% | |
| 2022 | −8.3% | |
| 2021 | +31.0% | |
| 2020 | +10.0% |
VLU in the news
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VLU Dividends
- 1.63%
- $3.97
- $1.05 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $1.05 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $1.02 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.92 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.99 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.96 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.97 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.91 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $1.01 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.94 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.96 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.79 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.86 |
VLU Risk
- 12.0%
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.
- 1.23
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.
- 0.88
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VLU Cost
- The middle half of US Value Index funds
- Median 0.20%
9 of the 41 US Value Index funds charge less.