CGDV vs TGLR

CGDVACapital Group Dividend Value ETF

TGLRDWedbush Laffer Tengler New Era Value ETF

In short

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.

TGLR Named for Nancy Tengler's 2003 book, TGLR runs her Relative Dividend Yield playbook: 25 to 35 US large caps bought when their own yield history flags them as cheap, held with low turnover, for 0.85%.

Stated mandate

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

TGLR The Fund seeks income and long-term capital appreciation.

Why people hold it

• 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.

• TGLR Relative Dividend Yield and Relative Price-to-Sales flag the entry point; a 12-factor fundamental check, half qualitative, then weeds out stocks that are cheap for a reason.sec.gov
• A 25 to 35 stock portfolio, so individual picks actually move the needle, paired with a stated aim of above-market dividend yield and low turnover.sec.gov
• Portfolio manager Nancy Tengler, CEO and CIO of Laffer Tengler Investments, kept the reins when the fund reorganized into the Wedbush Series Trust in April 2026.sec.gov

Worth knowing

• 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.

• TGLR At 0.85% it costs more than the typical fund in its dividend-income category, and more than peers like VUS at 0.25% and CGDV at 0.33%.
• A small, thinly traded fund, which tends to mean wider bid-ask spreads than on the category's giants.
• Income has arrived on an irregular schedule rather than a fixed monthly or quarterly cadence.

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