Category Review
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State Street SPDR S&P Global Dividend ETF
$81.75+0.54 (+0.67%)
- 0.40%
- $275M
- +18.7%
- 4.28%
- 0M sh
- $81.01
- low $71.89high $85.88
The ETF.net WDIV Grade
B
Score 58 out of 100
- 3 of 7
Score 58 of 100 falls in the B band. A is 70 or higher, B 55 to under 70, C 40 to under 55, D 25 to under 40, F under 25.
Cost
The fund’s net expense ratio, ranked against its category.C41 out of 100Rank 4 of 7Mission
Whether the fund did what it promised, tested against its stated mandate.A75 out of 100Rank 5 of 7Risk
How the fund held up when markets fell: downside volatility, drawdowns and tail loss.A75 out of 100Rank 2 of 7Tradability
How easy the fund is to trade: daily volume, and how far its price strays from net asset value.D38 out of 100Rank 4 of 7Holdings
How concentrated the fund is, and how complete and current its disclosed holdings are.A72 out of 100Rank 1 of 7Durability
Whether the fund is likely to stay open, judged by its age, its assets and its issuer’s assets.B61 out of 100Rank 3 of 7
Our read on WDIV
BDividend aristocrats with a passport. WDIV screens the world for companies that have held or raised payouts for at least a decade, buys the top yielders, and caps how much any one stock, sector or country can matter.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the S&P Global Dividend Aristocrats Index.
Why people hold it
- The aristocrat idea, exported. NOBL's bar is 25 straight years of US dividend hikes; WDIV's is 10 years of stable or rising payouts anywhere in the S&P Global BMI, a far bigger pond.ssga.comproshares.com
- Diversification is written into the rulebook: 3% cap per stock, 25% ceiling per sector and per country, and no more than 20 names from any single country.ssga.com
- Running since 2013 at 0.40%, level with the median fee in its dividend-aristocrat peer group, and it sits in the upper half of that group on our review.
- A compact book of roughly 90 global dividend payers, distributing quarterly.
Worth knowing
- 0.40% is the going rate among aristocrat funds, but plainer dividend index options in the same group cost far less (SPDG runs 0.05%).
- Thinly traded next to the headline US dividend names, so spreads can be wider than the sticker fee suggests.
- It is a yield-first screen on foreign shares: currency moves feed into returns, and a decade of merely stable dividends clears the bar alongside real growth.ssga.com
WDIV Holdings
- Stocks
- 112
- 18%
- 0992.HK
Sectors
- Financials22.0%
- Industrials13.8%
- Utilities13.4%
- Real Estate12.0%
- Communication8.1%
- Energy7.1%
- Consumer Staples6.0%
- Technology5.7%
- Health Care4.2%
- Consumer Discretionary4.1%
- Materials3.6%
Geography
- United States22.31%
- Canada12.34%
- Hong Kong9.96%
- Switzerland9.52%
- Japan7.97%
- United Kingdom7.02%
- South Korea5.11%
- Italy3.74%
- 22.03%
Developed 83% · Emerging 17%
WDIV Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
WDIV$11,866
Returns run to the Oct 12, 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 | WDIV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +11.3% |
| 1 month | −2.7% |
| 3 months | +0.8% |
| 1 year | +18.7% |
| 3 years | +19.8% |
| 5 years | +9.0% |
| 10 years | +7.6% |
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 | WDIV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +11.3% | |
| 2025 | +27.1% | |
| 2024 | +7.6% | |
| 2023 | +8.2% | |
| 2022 | −6.9% | |
| 2021 | +14.5% | |
| 2020 | −10.1% |
WDIV in the news
WDIV Dividends
- 4.28%
- $3.48
- $0.83 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
WDIV Risk
- 11.4%
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.
- −22.1%
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.
- 0.72
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
WDIV Cost
0.40%
WDIV0.40%
- The middle half of Dividend Aristocrats funds
- Median 0.40%
3 of the 7 Dividend Aristocrats funds charge less.
Other funds in Dividend Aristocrats
- ASDYState Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETFExpense ratio 0.35%1 year return +12.3%
- ANOBLProShares - S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETFExpense ratio 0.35%1 year return +12.0%
- BREGLProShares - S&P MidCap 400 Dividend Aristocrats ETFExpense ratio 0.40%1 year return +8.4%
- CKNGZFirst Trust S&P 500 Diversified Dividend Aristocrats ETFExpense ratio 0.50%1 year return +22.3%
- CSNPDXtrackers S&P Dividend Aristocrats Screened ETFExpense ratio 0.15%1 year return +14.3%