DGRO vs KVLE: Grades, Fees and Holdings Compared

iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF

DGROANYSE Arca

KraneShares Value Line Dynamic Dividend Equity Index ETF

KVLEDNYSE Arca

Overlap

23.4%by weight

Expense ratio

DGRO −0.48pt a year

DGRO0.08%KVLE0.56%

Avg volume · 30D

DGRO 689.0×the volume

DGRO1.44MKVLE2.1K

5Y return · a year

DGRO +1.4pt

DGRO+11.1%KVLE+9.7%

DGRO vs KVLE Performance

Nov 9, 2021 – Nov 9, 2026

+69.0%DGRO+58.5%KVLE

Expense ratio: DGRO 0.08%, better; KVLE 0.56%
Fund size: DGRO $44.7B; KVLE $40M
1Y total return: DGRO +22.5%, better; KVLE +13.2%
Yield (12M): DGRO 1.84%; KVLE 8.34%, better
Holdings: DGRO 394; KVLE 84
Avg volume (30D): DGRO 1.44M sh, better; KVLE 2.1K sh
NAV per share: DGRO $79.79; KVLE $27.49
52W range

ETF.net Grade

Pillar letters and Scores for DGRO, KVLE, with each pillar’s weight
Pillar	DGRO	KVLE
Cost30% weight	A88Higher	F15
Mission25% weight	A99Higher	A70
Risk15% weight	A76Higher	D30
Tradability15% weight	A88Higher	D29
Holdings10% weight	B63Higher	B58
Durability5% weight	A87Higher	F14

Rank among US Dividend Index funds

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Same Category. DGRO and KVLE are both graded against the same 52 US Dividend Index funds, so their Grades compare head to head.

US Dividend Index⁠

Category · 52 funds

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DGRO ranks 1st and KVLE 48th of 52 funds in the US Dividend Index Category.

Rank 1ADGROiShares Core Dividend Growth ETFScore 86
Rank 2ASCHDSchwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETFScore 81
Rank 48DDDIVFirst Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Dividend ETFScore 37
Rank 48DKVLEKraneShares Value Line Dynamic Dividend Equity Index ETFScore 37
Rank 48DSYLDCambria Shareholder Yield ETFScore 37

Our read on each fund

ETF.net Research

DGROAiShares Core Dividend Growth ETF

KVLEDKraneShares Value Line Dynamic Dividend Equity Index ETF

In short

DGRO BlackRock's dividend-growth screen casts a wider net than most: five straight years of raises rather than ten, plus a payout-ratio cap that filters out stretched payers. About 400 US dividend raisers, large through small cap, for 0.08% a year.

KVLE KVLE bolts a dividend portfolio onto Value Line's Safety and Timeliness rankings, the old-school stock-research scores, and lets the index shift with the market instead of holding one fixed high-yield list.

Stated mandate

DGRO The fund seeks to follow an index of U.S. equities whose dividends have grown consistently.

KVLE The fund seeks exposure to US large-cap companies through a market-adaptive index strategy emphasizing high dividend yields, strong Value Line Safety and Timeliness rankings, and quantitative risk management.

Why people hold it

DGRO Costs 0.08% a year, a small fraction of the typical fee among US dividend-screen ETFs.
The screen has teeth: a qualified dividend, five years of uninterrupted dividend growth, a payout ratio under 75%, and the top decile of yielders cut before the other tests run.ishares.com
Roughly 400 names across large, mid and small caps, weighted by the dividend dollars each company pays rather than by market cap.ishares.com cib.barclays
Tracks the Morningstar US Dividend Growth Index about as tightly as this group gets, and it's an actively traded, multi-billion-dollar fund that has run since 2014.

KVLE Stock picking runs off Value Line's Safety and Timeliness rankings, a research-house quality screen, not just a yield number or a dividend-streak count.
The index is market-adaptive: it reshuffles its US large-cap dividend payers as conditions change, with quantitative risk management written into the rules.
Plain shape underneath: US large-cap equity, dividends paid on a quarterly schedule.

Worth knowing

DGRO Chopping the highest-yielding decile is deliberate: this is built around payout growth and dividend durability, not the fattest current yield on the shelf.ishares.com
Only dividend payers qualify, so some of the market's biggest non-paying growth companies sit outside the portfolio by rule.ishares.com
Income arrives quarterly, not monthly, and this is plain US stock exposure: no buffer, no hedge, full equity risk.

KVLE The 0.56% fee sits above the dividend-screen median of 0.39% and far above index staples like SCHD (0.06%) and VIG (0.04%).
Small asset base and thin trading, so spreads can run wider than in the household-name dividend funds.
Value Line's rankings are proprietary, so the reasoning behind holdings is harder to eyeball than a published yield or dividend-growth rule.

Full DGRO profile⁠

Full KVLE profile⁠

DGRO vs KVLE Holdings

How DGRO and KVLE differ

Overlap by weight

23.4%

Shared holdings make up 34.1% of KVLE and 31.1% of DGRO.

Level by level

Holdings31 in both23.4%
Sector11 Sectors62.9%
Countryby domicile99.3%
Asset classStocks100%

Sector

Sector weights in DGRO and KVLE, widest gap first
Sector	Gap	DGRO	KVLE
Technology	KVLE +17.6 points	16.7%	34.3%
Real Estate	KVLE +15.1 points	0.0%	15.1%
Health Care	DGRO +12.3 points	17.9%	5.6%
Financials	DGRO +9.2 points	19.6%	10.4%
Utilities	DGRO +7.3 points	7.3%	0.0%
Consumer Staples	DGRO +6.4 points	13.1%	6.7%
Communication	KVLE +3.2 points	0.1%	3.3%
Consumer Discretionary	KVLE +1.3 points	6.5%	7.8%
Materials	DGRO +1.0 points	2.5%	1.5%
Energy	DGRO +0.6 points	5.3%	4.7%
Industrials	DGRO +0.2 points	10.9%	10.7%

Country, concentration and asset class

Country by domicile

Country weights in DGRO and KVLE, widest gap first
Country	More in DGROMore in KVLE	Gap	DGRO	KVLE
United States		KVLE +0.7 points	99.3%	100.0%
Other countries (4)		DGRO +0.7 points	0.7%	0.0%

Concentration

Weight in the 10 largest Holdings

DGRO26.9%
KVLE29.9%

Securities held

DGRO391
KVLE83

Asset class

DGRO: Stocks
KVLE: Stocks

Holdings

Only in DGRO360
In both31
Only in KVLE52

Only in DGRO

360 securities, 68.6% of DGRO by weight

AbbVie3.06%
Exxonmobil Holdings Corp2.99%
Johnson & Johnson2.86%
Procter & Gamble2.52%
Coca-Cola1.98%
Pepsico1.83%
Eli Lilly1.43%
Amgen Inc1.26%
Bank of America1.26%
Mcdonalds Corp1.25%
Wells Fargo1.24%
Accenture PLC Class A1.22%
Nextera Energy1.19%
Walmart1.12%
Gilead Sciences0.99%
Abbott Laboratories0.97%
Conocophillips0.90%
Medtronic PLC0.88%
Citigroup0.86%
Qualcomm0.84%
Rtx0.82%
Southern0.81%
Duke Energy Corp0.79%
Linde PLC0.70%
Mastercard Class A0.69%
Lowes Companies Inc0.68%
Costco Wholesale Corp0.66%
Pnc Financial Services Group0.64%
Mondelez International Class A0.61%
Eog Resources0.48%
Analog Devices0.47%
American Electric Power Inc0.46%
Marsh0.46%
Cme Group Class A0.45%
American Express0.44%
Phillips 660.43%
Colgate-Palmolive0.41%
Cigna0.36%
Air Products and Chemicals0.36%
Sempra0.35%
Xcel Energy Inc0.34%
Deere0.34%
Chubb0.34%
Bank of New York Mellon Corp0.34%
General Dynamics Corp0.34%
Waste Management Inc0.33%
Elevance Health Inc0.33%
Consolidated Edison0.32%
Northrop Grumman Corp0.31%
Eaton PLC0.31%

Only in KVLE

52 securities, 65.7% of KVLE by weight

NVIDIA Corp7.20%
Micron Technology Inc2.05%
Texas Instruments Inc1.92%
Alphabet Inc-Cl C1.86%
Pfizer Inc1.78%
Altria Group Inc1.71%
Chevron Corp1.69%
Verizon Communications Inc1.65%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co1.61%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise1.61%
Paychex Inc1.57%
Kimberly-Clark Corp1.53%
Mid-America Apartment Comm1.52%
Western Union Co1.51%
Gaming and Leisure Propertie1.51%
Flowers Foods Inc1.51%
United Parcel Service-Cl B1.50%
Energizer Holdings Inc1.50%
Simon Property Group Inc1.48%
T Rowe Price Group Inc1.48%
Vici Properties Inc1.47%
Wp Carey Inc1.47%
Public Storage1.42%
American Homes 4 Rent- A1.42%
Upbound Group Inc1.42%
Nike Inc -Cl B1.41%
Regency Centers Corp1.41%
Seagate Technology Holdings1.39%
Invitation Homes Inc1.34%
Kinder Morgan Inc1.28%
Advanced Micro Devices1.17%
Ford Motor Co1.10%
Southern Copper Corp0.96%
Wendy's Co/The0.89%
Us Bancorp0.88%
Vishay Intertechnology Inc0.83%
Oneok Inc0.82%
Msc Industrial Direct Co-A0.78%
Insperity Inc0.74%
Prudential Financial Inc0.65%
Marvell Technology Inc0.60%
Deluxe Corp0.58%
Conagra Brands Inc0.53%
Harley-Davidson Inc0.45%
Dell Technologies -C0.41%
Corning Inc0.40%
Cohen & Steers Inc0.39%
Williams Cos Inc0.37%
Valero Energy Corp0.32%
Palantir Technologies Inc-A0.29%

Weight gaps

All 31 Holdings in both funds, largest gap first.

Holding weights in DGRO and KVLE, widest gap first
Holding	Gap	DGRO	KVLE
MicrosoftMSFT	KVLE +1.84 points	3.14%	4.98%
JPMorgan Chase & CoJPM	DGRO +1.62 points	2.68%	1.06%
Home DepotHD	DGRO +1.00 points	2.19%	1.19%
Illinois Tool IncITW	KVLE +0.98 points	0.42%	1.40%
Automatic Data Processing IncADP	KVLE +0.93 points	0.65%	1.58%
Genuine PartsGPC	KVLE +0.92 points	0.12%	1.04%
UnitedHealth GroupUNH	DGRO +0.77 points	1.82%	1.05%
Factset Research SystemsFDS	KVLE +0.77 points	0.04%	0.81%
Broadcom IncAVGO	KVLE +0.77 points	2.19%	2.96%
Visa Class AV	DGRO +0.75 points	1.13%	0.38%
Philip Morris InternationalPM	DGRO +0.73 points	2.18%	1.45%
Snap On IncSNA	KVLE +0.73 points	0.10%	0.83%
Caterpillar IncCAT	KVLE +0.73 points	0.45%	1.18%
Cisco Systems IncCSCO	KVLE +0.67 points	1.25%	1.92%
Morgan StanleyMS	DGRO +0.57 points	1.00%	0.43%
Lockheed MartinLMT	DGRO +0.51 points	0.64%	0.13%
AppleAAPL	KVLE +0.51 points	3.07%	3.58%
FastenalFAST	KVLE +0.49 points	0.27%	0.76%
Union PacificUNP	DGRO +0.43 points	0.74%	0.31%
Goldman Sachs GroupGS	KVLE +0.40 points	0.96%	1.36%
Hamilton Lane Class AHLNE	KVLE +0.36 points	0.02%	0.38%
TjxTJX	DGRO +0.36 points	0.48%	0.12%
International Business Machines CoIBM	DGRO +0.34 points	1.46%	1.12%
BlackRockBLK	DGRO +0.33 points	0.74%	0.41%
Broadridge Financial Solutions IncBR	KVLE +0.32 points	0.11%	0.43%
Merck & Co IncMRK	DGRO +0.29 points	1.80%	1.51%
KlaKLAC	KVLE +0.20 points	0.20%	0.40%
OracleORCL	KVLE +0.06 points	0.55%	0.61%
Applied Material IncAMAT	KVLE +0.05 points	0.27%	0.32%
Cummins IncCMI	KVLE +0.03 points	0.21%	0.24%
Lam ResearchLRCX	DGRO +0.02 points	0.19%	0.17%

All 391 DGRO holdings⁠All KVLE holdings⁠

How we measure overlap

Each holding counts at its smaller weight in the two funds, summed over the full Holdings. Sector, country and asset class use the same rule on each fund’s split. Cash, FX and derivative lines stay out of the counts. Two bond funds get no overlap figure.

DGRO vs KVLE Cost

Overpaying KVLE vs DGRO

$9,399

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

DGRO 0.08%
$1,689
KVLE 0.56%
$11,088

Amount$10,000

Years30 years

Cost over time

DGRO 0.08%
KVLE 0.56%
Overpaying

Year by year

Year	DGRO	KVLE	Overpaying
10	$147	$1,006	$859
20	$575	$3,855	$3,280
30	$1,689	$11,088	$9,399

Expense ratio

0.08%DGRO, cheaper
0.56%KVLE

DGRO0.08%KVLE0.56%

0.04%0.70%

Middle half of US Dividend Index funds
Median 0.35%

DGRO 8th cheapest of 52 funds

KVLE 45th cheapest of 52 funds

DGRO vs KVLE Dividends

Last 12 months to Nov 9, 2026

Yield (12M): DGRO 1.84%; KVLE 8.34%, better
Payout (12M): DGRO $1.49; KVLE $2.34
Last payment: DGRO $0.39; KVLE $0.16
Ex-dividend: DGRO Sep 15, 2026; KVLE Sep 29, 2026
Paid on: DGRO Sep 18, 2026; KVLE Sep 30, 2026
Frequency: DGRO Quarterly; KVLE Quarterly

Distribution history

Per share, 2017 to 2026, same scale for both

DGROQuarterly · 39 paymentsAll DGRO payments⁠

KVLEQuarterly · 22 paymentsAll KVLE payments⁠

DGRO vs KVLE Risk

Fall from peak · 5 years

DGRO
KVLE

Risk facts

VolatilityStd dev, 3 years: DGRO 10.8%, betterKVLE 11.6%
Return per unit of riskSharpe ratio, 3 years: DGRO 1.47, betterKVLE 1.07
Worst fallMax drawdown, 5 years: DGRO −19.3%KVLE −18.4%, better
Market sensitivityBeta, 5 years: DGRO 0.67KVLE 0.83; Market = 1

DGRO and KVLE in the news

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Sep 20, 2026DGRO
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Sep 8, 2026DGRO

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DGRO vs KVLE

In short

Stated mandate

Why people hold it