DVDN vs SRET

DVDNDKingsbarn Dividend Opportunity ETF

SRETBGlobal X SuperDividend REIT ETF

In short

DVDN A boutique, genuinely active take on dividend investing: at least 80% of assets in companies that paid a dividend last year, run through a value-leaning, multi-stage selection process. Small, young (2023), and priced at 0.90%.

SRET Most global real estate ETFs rank landlords by size. SRET flips it: a tight basket of about 29 REITs worldwide chosen off a SuperDividend yield screen, paid out monthly. A yield-first take in a market-cap-first cohort.

Stated mandate

DVDN The Fund seeks its objective by investing at least 80% of its assets, under normal conditions, in companies that paid a dividend during the preceding year.

SRET SRET seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Solactive Global SuperDividend ® REIT Index.

Why people hold it

• DVDN Stock-picked, not screen-picked: a multi-stage, value-leaning process chooses the names, with at least 80% of assets in companies that paid a dividend in the prior year.
• Straightforward plumbing: a 1940 Act US equity fund that distributes quarterly, with income sourced from the dividend payers it owns rather than an options overlay.
• The mandate is deliberately wide: any US dividend payer qualifies, so managers can tilt toward value without being boxed in by a rigid yield or dividend-growth rulebook.

• SRET Yield is the screen, not an afterthought. The Solactive Global SuperDividend REIT Index sorts on payout instead of market cap, so big landlords don't automatically get big weights.
• Distributions land monthly rather than quarterly, which lines the cash flow up with how rent actually arrives.
• Global by design: the mandate reaches beyond US REITs, and the fund has run through a full real estate cycle since its 2015 launch.

Worth knowing

• DVDN The 0.90% expense ratio runs well above the typical US dividend-income ETF, and above big active peers such as CGDV and TDVG.
• Small asset base and light trading: spreads can be wider than in mega-cap dividend funds, which makes limit orders and trade timing matter more.
• Launched in late 2023, so the record is short, and with no published index to track, results hinge on the managers' security selection.

• SRET At 0.58% it runs above the 0.50% typical for global real estate funds, and far above index majors like REET (0.14%) and VNQI (0.12%).
• Around 29 holdings means each name pulls real weight, and a yield screen reshuffles the roster as payouts change.
• It's a smaller, thinly traded fund, so spreads can widen. Limit orders do more work here than with the cohort's giants.

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