State Street SPDR S&P Global Dividend ETF
$82.82−0.63 (−0.76%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.40%
- Fund size
- $282M
- 1Y return
- +20.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.17%
- Holdings
- 92
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $82.94
- 52W range
The ETF.net WDIV Grade
Score 58 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.CScore 41Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 75Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 78Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 38Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 69Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 61Category rank
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
- 92
- 18%
- 0992.HK
Sectors
- Financials22.2%
- Industrials13.3%
- Utilities13.2%
- Real Estate12.1%
- Communication9.3%
- Energy7.3%
- Cons. Staples6.1%
- Technology4.9%
- Health Care4.1%
- Consumer Discr.4.0%
- Materials3.5%
Geography
- United States22.91%
- Canada11.96%
- Hong Kong9.61%
- Switzerland9.36%
- United Kingdom8.16%
- Japan7.89%
- South Korea5.09%
- Italy3.63%
- 21.38%
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.
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 | WDIV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.3% |
| 1 month | −1.2% |
| 3 months | +6.0% |
| 1 year | +20.1% |
| 3 years | +19.7% |
| 5 years | +9.9% |
| 10 years | +7.5% |
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 | +14.3% | |
| 2025 | +27.1% | |
| 2024 | +7.6% | |
| 2023 | +8.2% | |
| 2022 | −6.9% | |
| 2021 | +14.5% | |
| 2020 | −10.1% |
WDIV in the news
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WDIV Dividends
- 4.17%
- $3.48
- $0.83 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.83 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $1.44 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.44 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.76 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.76 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $1.31 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.69 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.61 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $1.21 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.37 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.73 |
WDIV Risk
- 11.6%
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.
- 1.18
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
- The middle half of Dividend Aristocrats funds
- Median 0.40%
3 of the 7 Dividend Aristocrats funds charge less.