Weitz Core Plus Bond ETF
$24.62−0.21 (−0.85%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $245M
- 1Y return
- +1.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.81
- 52W range
The ETF.net WCPB Grade
Score 56 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.DScore 26Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 99Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 76Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 40Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 49Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 37Category rank
Our read on WCPB
BWeitz has been an independent Omaha shop since 1983. In 2025 it put its fixed income playbook in an ETF: an actively run core bond portfolio that hunts income in the mortgage and asset-backed corners the Agg leaves thin.
The fund's primary objectives are current income and capital preservation.
Why people hold it
- Built to roam where the Agg does not. The fund's own materials point to agency and non-agency mortgages, asset-backed paper and select corporate credit as the "plus" in core plus.weitzinvestments.com
- Income comes first in the mandate: current income and capital preservation are the stated objectives, and cash goes out monthly.
- Not a new idea in a new wrapper. Weitz runs the same research-driven fixed income process it has used in its mutual funds, and the ETF discloses its holdings daily.businesswire.comweitzinvestments.com
- What sits in the portfolio lines up closely with the income-and-preservation mandate on the label, which is not a given among active bond funds.
Worth knowing
- 0.45% a year sits above the 0.36% category median and far above 0.03% index trackers like BND and SPAB. You are paying for active judgment, not index replication.
- It opened in August 2025, so the record is short and trading is lighter than the category's giants, which can mean wider spreads on the way in and out.
- Stepping outside the Agg into structured credit means results can diverge from a plain aggregate index fund, in either direction.weitzinvestments.com
WCPB Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 28%
- T 4 3/8 05/15/40
WCPB 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 | WCPB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.4% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −0.7% |
| 1 year | +1.8% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | WCPB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.4% | |
| 2025 | +2.9% |
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WCPB Dividends
- $0.10 per share
- Monthly
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | $0.10 |
| May 28, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Apr 29, 2026 | May 1, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Apr 1, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Mar 2, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Feb 2, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 16, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Nov 3, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Oct 1, 2025 | $0.05 |
WCPB Risk
- 3.0%
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.
- −0.03
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.
- −2.6%
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.
- 0.11
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
WCPB Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
79 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.