Affinity World Leaders Equity ETF
$48.06−0.34 (−0.70%)
- Expense ratio
- 1.05%
- Fund size
- $142M
- 1Y return
- +42.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.74%
- Holdings
- 146
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $48.01
- 52W range
The ETF.net WLDR Grade
Score 40 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.FScore 0Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 67Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 71Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 39Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 45Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 53Category rank
Our read on WLDR
CAn index fund with a stock-picker's brain: WLDR tracks a FTSE StarMine index that ranks global large caps on earnings quality, analyst revisions, momentum and valuation, then holds the winners sector-neutral.
The Fund seeks to track the FTSE StarMine Affinity World Leaders Index through passive replication. The Index is a global equity strategy covering U.S. and international companies.
Why people hold it
- The screen runs on StarMine analyst data: rising earnings and revenue estimates, price targets and recommendations, layered with quality, momentum and valuation ranks.simplify.us
- A sector-neutral overlay holds sector weights near the parent FTSE developed-market index, so differences come from stock selection, not a big tech or bank tilt.sec.govsimplify.us
- One ticker, roughly 150 to 250 large caps across the US and up to 20 developed markets, reconstituted twice a year. Trading since 2018, distributions quarterly.simplify.us
Worth knowing
- At 1.05% a year, the fee is the loudest number here. Plain global index trackers like VT charge 0.06%, so the quant screen carries a high bar.
- Volume is light. Spreads can widen, so limit orders matter more here than with a mega-cap index fund.
- Developed markets only (Greece and South Korea are cut from the starting universe), so no emerging-market exposure.simplify.us
WLDR Holdings
- Stocks
- 146
- 39%
- DELL
Sectors
- Technology37.4%
- Financials14.5%
- Health Care8.4%
- Communication7.8%
- Cons. Staples6.9%
- Industrials6.9%
- Consumer Discr.6.8%
- Energy4.5%
- Materials2.9%
- Utilities2.2%
- Real Estate1.5%
Geography
- United States72.49%
- Japan9.28%
- United Kingdom5.54%
- Spain3.07%
- Italy2.65%
- Canada2.23%
- Netherlands1.64%
- Bermuda0.87%
- 2.22%
Developed 97% · Emerging 3%
WLDR 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 | WLDR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +37.3% |
| 1 month | +2.2% |
| 3 months | +3.4% |
| 1 year | +42.9% |
| 3 years | +33.8% |
| 5 years | +19.9% |
| 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 | WLDR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +37.3% | |
| 2025 | +31.4% | |
| 2024 | +22.8% | |
| 2023 | +18.9% | |
| 2022 | −10.4% | |
| 2021 | +26.7% | |
| 2020 | −1.9% |
WLDR in the news
ETF.net Research hasn’t filed on WLDR yet — coverage lands here as it’s written.
WLDR Dividends
- 6.74%
- $3.26
- $0.09 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 15, 2025 | $2.90 |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Jun 18, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Mar 19, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Dec 17, 2024 | $3.78 |
| Sep 19, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Jun 13, 2024 | Jun 18, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 20, 2023 | $0.25 |
WLDR Risk
- 15.6%
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.
- 1.55
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.
- −23.8%
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.
- 0.98
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
WLDR Cost
- The middle half of Other Major Indexes funds
- Median 0.29%
Every other Other Major Indexes fund charges less.