SNPD vs WDIV

SNPDCXtrackers S&P Dividend Aristocrats Screened ETF

WDIVBState Street SPDR S&P Global Dividend ETF

In short

SNPD Dividend aristocrats, filtered. SNPD holds S&P Composite 1500 companies that have raised their dividend 20 years running, minus the names that fail the index's ESG screens, for 0.15% a year.

WDIV Dividend aristocrats with a passport. WDIV screens the world for companies that have held or raised payouts for at least a decade, buys the top yielders, and caps how much any one stock, sector or country can matter.

Stated mandate

SNPD The fund seeks investment results that generally track the performance of its underlying index before fees and expenses.

WDIV The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the S&P Global Dividend Aristocrats Index.

Why people hold it

• SNPD 0.15% a year, well under the roughly 0.40% median for funds built on aristocrat indexes. A cheap wrapper on a very well-worn idea.
• High entry bar: 20 straight years of dividend increases inside the S&P Composite 1500, then the index's screens. Roughly 110 stocks, distributions paid quarterly.dws.com
• Rules run the portfolio, not a manager. S&P sets the list, Xtrackers buys it, and the fund has tracked that index closely.

• WDIV The aristocrat idea, exported. NOBL's bar is 25 straight years of US dividend hikes; WDIV's is 10 years of stable or rising payouts anywhere in the S&P Global BMI, a far bigger pond.ssga.comproshares.com
• Diversification is written into the rulebook: 3% cap per stock, 25% ceiling per sector and per country, and no more than 20 names from any single country.ssga.com
• Running since 2013 at 0.40%, level with the median fee in its dividend-aristocrat peer group, and it sits in the upper half of that group on our review.
• A compact book of roughly 90 global dividend payers, distributing quarterly.

Worth knowing

• SNPD One of the smaller, thinner-traded funds in its peer group. Spreads can be wider than at household-name rivals like SDY or NOBL, and small funds can be closed.
• The screens remove some qualifying aristocrats, so the holdings and results diverge from unscreened versions of the same dividend-growth list.dws.com
• Launched in 2022 under an ESG name. S&P renamed the index in 2025 and the fund followed, with no change to the index methodology or the fund's policies.dws.com

• WDIV 0.40% is the going rate among aristocrat funds, but plainer dividend index options in the same group cost far less (SPDG runs 0.05%).
• Thinly traded next to the headline US dividend names, so spreads can be wider than the sticker fee suggests.
• It is a yield-first screen on foreign shares: currency moves feed into returns, and a decade of merely stable dividends clears the bar alongside real growth.ssga.com

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