TDVG vs VUS

TDVGBT. Rowe Price Dividend Growth ETF

VUSBVirtus U.S. Dividend ETF

In short

TDVG T. Rowe Price's stock pickers in an ETF wrapper. TDVG hunts companies that keep raising dividends rather than the fattest current yields, in a compact book of roughly 100 US names, and has been running since 2020.

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

TDVG The fund seeks dividend income and long-term capital growth.

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

Why people hold it

• TDVG Dividend growth, not top yield: at least 80% in stocks with an established or expected record of paying dividends, screened for sustainable earnings, sound finances and durable advantages.
• At 0.50% it undercuts the typical active dividend fund, and it rates among the stronger implementations in a crowded active-income field.
• About 100 stocks, so manager conviction shows instead of getting diluted across hundreds of names. Income is paid quarterly.
• A multi-billion-dollar fund live since 2020, with trading that has held up well for an actively managed strategy.

• 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

• TDVG The screens favor companies raising payouts over the fattest current yielders, so the income profile tends to run lighter than deep-value dividend strategies.
• 0.50% is active-manager pricing: strong peers in the same cohort charge less, including CGDV at 0.33% and HIDV at 0.35%.
• No index to hide behind. Outcomes ride on the team's picks, and a US-only book of roughly 100 stocks carries full equity market risk.

• 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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