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VUSE

GradeCNew York Stock Exchange Arca

Vident U.S. Equity Strategy ETF

Factor & Screened Index · Vident · Inception 2014-01-21 · SEC filings

$72.98−0.56 (−0.76%)

As of Sep 23, 2026, 2:20 PM EDT

Intraday session: down, 56 prints from 73.55 to 72.98. Range 72.83 to 73.22. Use the arrow keys to read each point.$72.80$72.90$73.10$73.2010 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM
Expense ratio
0.50%
Fund size
$672M
1Y return
+9.9%
Yield · Last 12 months
0.32%
Volume · 30D
0M sh
NAV per share
$72.06
52W range
low $61.10high $74.84

The ETF.net VUSE Grade

C

54/ 100

Rank 15 of 27 in US Quality Index⁠

Confidence High

Six-pillar profile for VUSE. Scores out of 100: Cost 31, Risk 45, Mission 83, Tradability 44, Holdings 72, Durability 70. Strongest: Mission (83). Weakest: Cost (31). Leans toward Mission.
F< 25
D≥ 25
C≥ 40
B≥ 55
A≥ 70

Score 54 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.
    DScore 31
    Category rank21/27 · bottom quartile

  • Mission

    How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.
    AScore 83
    Category rank6/19 · top 32%

  • Risk

    How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.
    CScore 45
    Category rank16/27 · mid-pack

  • Tradability

    How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.
    CScore 44
    Category rank18/27 · mid-pack

  • Holdings

    What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.
    AScore 72
    Category rank8/27 · top 30%

  • Durability

    Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.
    AScore 70
    Category rank8/27 · top 30%

Graded as of Sep 22, 2026

Our read on VUSE

ETF.net Research

CA quality fund that starts in the boardroom: VUSE's index screens U.S. companies on corporate governance and accounting quality, then spreads weight across giant, large and small/mid caps instead of letting the biggest names run the show.

Stated mandate

The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Vident U.S. Quality Index. The index strategy selects U.S. equities using corporate-governance and accounting quality measures.

Why people hold it

  1. 01The governance angle. Most quality indexes rank profits and balance sheets; Vident's also scores management stewardship and accounting quality, then adjusts each holding's weight on that score.videntam.com
  2. 02Not a closet index clone. Weight is deliberately spread across giant, large and small/mid-cap segments, so mid-sized companies get real representation.videntam.com
  3. 03Live since 2014 with several hundred million dollars in assets: a decade-plus of real-world results, not a backtest. Income is paid out quarterly.
  4. 04Does what the label says. A rules-based U.S. equity portfolio built to the governance-and-quality mandate written into its own prospectus, with no style drift hiding in the holdings.

Worth knowing

  1. 01At 0.50% a year it costs well above the quality-factor mainstays (JQUA 0.12%, QUAL and FQAL 0.15%) and above the group's typical fee. The governance layer has to earn that gap.
  2. 02It trades thinly next to those peers, so bid-ask spreads can run wider, which matters most on larger orders.
  3. 03The scoring is Vident's own, so holdings can look quite different from a standard quality index for long stretches. It sits in the lower half of its quality-factor peer group.

VUSE Holdings

As of Sep 20, 2026, 9:01 AM
Asset class
Stocks
Holdings
—
Top-10 weight
28%
Largest holding
MU3.5%

Sectors

  • Technology38.2%
  • Financials12.9%
  • Health Care10.5%
  • Communication9.1%
  • Consumer Discr.8.7%
  • Industrials7.1%
  • Cons. Staples5.8%
  • Energy3.0%
  • Materials2.9%
  • Real Estate1.0%
  • Utilities0.9%

Geography

  • United States98.21%
  • Singapore1.27%
  • United Kingdom0.52%
The fund’s holdings, weight-ordered — page 1 of 9.
#TickerCompanyWeight %SharesMarket valueIn ETFs
001MUMicron Technology Inc3.46%23,366$23M655
002GOOGLAlphabet Inc3.19%61,117$21M704
003METAMeta Platforms Inc3.06%30,443$20M683
004LLYEli Lilly & Co2.92%17,060$20M569
005AAPLApple Inc2.74%54,839$18M707
006NVDANVIDIA Corp2.68%81,632$18M828
007MSFTMicrosoft Corp2.58%34,923$17M792
008WMTWalmart Inc2.57%159,815$17M462
009AVGOBroadcom Inc2.52%47,435$17M732
010JNJJohnson & Johnson2.51%62,327$17M521
011JPMJPMORGAN CHASE & CO.2.47%47,753$17M478
012VVisa Inc2.46%44,502$16M550
013AMZNAmazon.com Inc2.46%64,936$16M720
014BRK-BBerkshire Hathaway Inc1.78%23,504$12M359
015AMDAdvanced Micro Devices Inc1.51%18,631$10M618

Showing 1–15 of 124 holdings

VUSE Performance

Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.

VUSE$10,986
SPY tracks large US stocks. It provides market context, rather than representing this fund’s strategy, asset class or investment benchmark.$11,723
Sep 22, 2025 to Sep 22, 2026. VUSE $10,986. SPY $11,723. Use the arrow keys to read each point.$8,907$10,440$11,973Sep 2025Mar 2026Sep 2026

Sep 22, 2025 – Sep 22, 2026

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.

Trailing total return for VUSE. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
PeriodVUSE
Year to date+11.7%
1 month+0.3%
3 months+2.4%
1 year+9.9%
3 years+17.1%per year
5 years+12.5%per year
10 years+12.0%per year

As of the close, with distributions reinvested.

Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.

Annual total returns for VUSE
YearReturn barVUSE
2026 YTD+11.7%
2025+13.2%
2024+15.8%
2023+24.4%
2022−9.4%
2021+35.5%
2020+6.7%

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VUSE Dividends

Adds up every distribution paid per share over the last 12 months, divided by the last completed close. Distributions are counted by ex-date. Data through Sep 22, 2026.
0.32%Last 12 months
Payout per share
$0.24Last 12 months
Last payment
$0.05 per share
Paid on
Shares bought on or after this date do not qualify for this distribution.
Frequency
Quarterly

Distribution history

2017–2026

One bar per payment. 39 payments from 2017 to 2026 YTD. Mar 14, 2017 $0.07; Jun 13, 2017 $0.09; Sep 19, 2017 $0.02; Dec 21, 2017 $0.21; Mar 20, 2018 $0.09; Jun 19, 2018 $0.10; Sep 18, 2018 $0.02; Dec 19, 2018 $0.23; Mar 19, 2019 $0.12; Jun 18, 2019 $0.13; Sep 17, 2019 $0.02; Dec 19, 2019 $0.26; Mar 17, 2020 $0.08; Jun 16, 2020 $0.11; Sep 15, 2020 $0.01; Dec 18, 2020 $0.26; Mar 16, 2021 $0.08; Jun 15, 2021 $0.12; Sep 14, 2021 $0.01; Dec 17, 2021 $0.33; Mar 15, 2022 $0.10; Jun 14, 2022 $0.15; Sep 13, 2022 $0.01; Dec 16, 2022 $0.39; Mar 14, 2023 $0.11; Jun 13, 2023 $0.16; Sep 12, 2023 $0.0032; Dec 15, 2023 $0.31; Mar 12, 2024 $0.09; Jun 11, 2024 $0.13; Sep 17, 2024 $0.02; Dec 17, 2024 $0.25; Mar 18, 2025 $0.07; Jun 17, 2025 $0.06; Sep 17, 2025 $0.13; Dec 17, 2025 $0.05; Mar 17, 2026 $0.07; Jun 16, 2026 $0.07; Sep 17, 2026 $0.05. Use the arrow keys to read each point.2017201820192020202120222023202420252026YTD
Ex-datePay dateAmount per share
Sep 17, 2026Sep 18, 2026$0.05
Jun 16, 2026Jun 17, 2026$0.07
Mar 17, 2026Mar 18, 2026$0.07
Dec 17, 2025Dec 18, 2025$0.05
Sep 17, 2025Sep 18, 2025$0.13
Jun 17, 2025Jun 18, 2025$0.06
Mar 18, 2025Mar 19, 2025$0.07
Dec 17, 2024Dec 18, 2024$0.25
Sep 17, 2024Sep 18, 2024$0.02
Jun 11, 2024Jun 12, 2024$0.13
Mar 12, 2024Mar 14, 2024$0.09
Dec 15, 2023Dec 19, 2023$0.31

VUSE Risk

How much the fund’s monthly returns vary, scaled to a year.
12.3%
Annualised · 36 months to Aug 2026
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.

Return above 3-month US Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
0.87
vs 3-month T-bills · to Aug 2026
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.

The largest fall from a peak to the low that followed.
−21.3%
Trough Sep 2022
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.

How strongly the fund’s returns move with its asset-class index.
0.90
vs its asset-class index
How it’s calculated: beta

The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.

VUSE Cost

Expense ratio0.50%
  • The middle half of US Quality Index funds
  • Median 0.38%

20 of the 27 US Quality Index funds charge less.

VUSE costs $50.00 a year on $10,000. The median US Quality Index fund costs $38.00.