Applied Finance Valuation Large Cap ETF
$48.80−0.37 (−0.74%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $563M
- 1Y return
- +14.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.42%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $48.53
- 52W range
The ETF.net VSLU Grade
Score 53 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.BScore 58Category 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.CScore 48Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 38Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 56Category rank
Our read on VSLU
CApplied Finance has been estimating what companies are actually worth since 1995. VSLU runs that engine on US large caps: own the ones trading below its intrinsic-value estimate, for less than the typical active fund charges.
The Fund’s stated objective is long-term capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.49% a year, below the 0.65% median for active US equity funds. Cheap fuel for an active strategy.
- The engine is Applied Finance's Economic Margin framework, which strips accounting distortions to measure what a firm earns above or below its cost of capital.appliedfinance.comappliedfinance.com
- Stock-picking with a leash: an active mandate for long-term capital appreciation, measured against the Morningstar US Large-Mid Cap Index.
- Running since 2021 and one of the stronger overall showings in our active US equity group.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded compared with the category's giants, so bid-ask spreads can be wider, especially in fast markets.
- Cheap for active, not cheap outright: systematic peers like DFAU (0.12%) and AVLC (0.15%) charge roughly a third as much.
- A value discipline means the portfolio can look very different from a cap-weighted index, and its results can diverge for long stretches.
VSLU Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 53%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology38.8%
- Health Care12.7%
- Communication12.3%
- Consumer Discr.10.3%
- Financials9.8%
- Industrials6.7%
- Cons. Staples4.2%
- Energy2.3%
- Materials1.1%
- Utilities1.0%
- Real Estate0.8%
Geography
- United States97.85%
- Ireland1.42%
- Switzerland0.28%
- United Kingdom0.11%
- Bermuda0.10%
- Canada0.09%
- Sweden0.07%
- Australia0.04%
- 0.04%
VSLU 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 | VSLU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +11.0% |
| 1 month | +0.8% |
| 3 months | +7.6% |
| 1 year | +14.8% |
| 3 years | +22.8% |
| 5 years | +13.9% |
| 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 | VSLU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +11.0% | |
| 2025 | +21.5% | |
| 2024 | +23.8% | |
| 2023 | +26.8% | |
| 2022 | −16.1% | |
| 2021 | +14.1% |
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VSLU Dividends
- 0.42%
- $0.20
- $0.20 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.18 |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Dec 29, 2022 | $0.23 |
| Dec 27, 2021 | Dec 29, 2021 | $0.16 |
VSLU Risk
- 12.3%
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.
- 1.25
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.
- −23.9%
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.
- 0.95
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VSLU Cost
- The middle half of US Active Contrarian Value funds
- Median 0.54%
3 of the 8 US Active Contrarian Value funds charge less.