DVGR vs VUS

DVGRDDAC 3D Dividend Growth ETF

VUSBVirtus U.S. Dividend ETF

In short

DVGR A boutique newcomer named for its screen: 3D, short for "Double Digits for a Decade or More." DAC runs a global stock portfolio on growth, quality and value, chasing capital appreciation and current income in one wrapper.

VUS An AI-assisted dividend fund at a passive-fund price. A quant model reads sentiment and valuation, humans make the final call, and it charges 0.25%, less than half the typical active US dividend ETF.

Stated mandate

DVGR The Fund seeks capital appreciation and current income.

VUS The Fund seeks current income and, secondarily, long-term capital appreciation.

Why people hold it

• DVGR The mandate is spelled out: capital appreciation plus current income, drawn from a global stock pool screened on growth, quality and value.
• Plain plumbing. A 1940 Act stock fund with no leverage and no options overlay to decode before you own it.
• Global by design, so the hunt for dividend growers is not fenced into the US market.
• Actively run with quarterly distributions: a manager can act on a dividend cut instead of waiting for an index reconstitution.

• VUS 0.25% a year, under half the 0.55% median for active US dividend ETFs and cheaper than every top-graded name in the cohort (CGDV, HIDV, MBOX, BGIG, TDVG).
• The engine: a proprietary alpha model using AI-powered language processing for sentiment plus valuation factors. Virtus portfolio managers make the final trading calls.sec.gov
• About 90 US-listed dividend payers, with at least 80% of net assets in them. Focused enough for picks to register, wide enough to spread single-name risk.sec.gov

Worth knowing

• DVGR 0.65% a year sits above the median for dividend-income peers, and cheaper active options exist: CGDV at 0.33%, TDVG at 0.50%.
• It opened in December 2025 and names no declared index, so there is little live history to measure the 3D process against.
• A young fund with a modest asset base trades thinner than the category's giants, so the spread and a limit order are worth a look.

• VUS Launched December 2025 with a small asset base and light volume, so spreads can run wider than the cohort's household names and live history on the model is short.
• The prospectus lets the fund put more than 15% of assets in a single sector, so the portfolio can lean hard into a few corners of the market.sec.gov
• Income arrives annually or semiannually rather than monthly, so the cash shows up in lumps.

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