BAMD vs CGDV

BAMDDBrookstone Dividend Stock ETF

CGDVACapital Group Dividend Value ETF

In short

BAMD An advisor shop's hand-built dividend sleeve: Brookstone screens US payers, holds roughly 70 positions and can bolt on outside ETFs, charging 0.87% for the work. Live since 2023, it's one of eight Brookstone building-block funds.

CGDV A stock picker's dividend fund at near-index pricing: 0.33% a year, roughly 60 names, and a mandate for above-average yield plus growth. Live since 2022 and already grown into a multi-billion-dollar fund.

Stated mandate

BAMD The Fund seeks to provide income together with capital appreciation.

CGDV The fund seeks income above the average yield of U.S. stocks while also offering capital-growth potential.

Why people hold it

• BAMD Real stock picking, not an index rebuild: the adviser screens $1B-plus US companies on dividend history and ability to keep paying, using outside and in-house research.sec.gov
• The mandate allows unaffiliated ETFs alongside individual names, so the manager can top up income exposure without you buying a second fund.sec.gov
• Income arrives on a quarterly schedule, and the book stays focused at roughly 70 positions instead of spread thin across hundreds.
• One of eight Brookstone ETFs built as model-portfolio blocks, so the dividend piece is designed to sit beside the shop's growth, value and bond funds.brookstonecm.comsec.gov

• CGDV Costs 0.33% a year while the typical fund in its active dividend peer group charges around 0.55%. Active stock picking, index-fund pricing.
• Dual mandate: income above the average yield of U.S. stocks plus capital-growth potential. Not a pure yield chase.capitalgroup.com
• Tens of billions in assets and heavy daily trading make it one of the easier funds in its peer group to get in and out of at a fair spread.
• Delivers its stated mandate with unusual consistency for an active fund, placing it among the strongest implementations in its dividend-income peer group.

Worth knowing

• BAMD At 0.87% with no fee waiver, it costs more than the typical fund in its dividend-income category, and far more than peers like VUS (0.25%) or CGDV (0.33%).
• Thinly traded, so limit orders matter more here than with the category's household names.
• It lands in the lower tier of its dividend-income peer group, and being active means there is no index to check the portfolio against.

• CGDV About 60 holdings. That concentration means individual company stumbles land harder than in a fund holding hundreds of names.
• Active and benchmark-agnostic: results track the managers' calls, not an index, so it can drift well away from the broad market in either direction.
• Pays quarterly, not monthly. Worth knowing if you're building an income schedule.

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