FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund (QDEF)

Large Value · Northern Trust · NYSE

Large ValueETF

FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund (QDEF) is an exchange-traded fund in the Large Value category. It has $615.04M in assets, an expense ratio of 0.39% and a 1.54% dividend yield. The underlying index is designed to reflect the performance of a selection of companies that, in aggregate, provide exposure to a high quality income-oriented universe of long-only U.S. equity securities, with an emphasis on long-term capital growth and a targeted overall beta that is generally between 0.5 to 1.0 times that of the Northern Trust 1250 Index, a float-adjusted market-capitalization weighted index of U.S. domiciled large- and mid-capitalization companies.

Assets under management	$615.04M
Expense ratio	0.39%
Category	Large Value
Dividend yield	1.54%
NAV	$89.99
Fund family	Northern Trust
Exchange	NYSE

Top holdings

The largest positions FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund reports, by weight.

Holding	Name	Weight
AAPL	Apple Inc	8.43%
NVDA	NVIDIA Corp	6.96%
AVGO	Broadcom Inc	4.40%
MSFT	Microsoft Corp	4.36%
ABBV	AbbVie Inc	3.05%
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	2.83%
PG	Procter & Gamble Co	2.33%
GOOGL	Alphabet Inc Class A	2.31%
CSCO	Cisco Systems Inc	2.14%
JPM	JPMorgan Chase & Co	2.10%

Other Large Value ETFs

Ticker	Fund	Assets	Expense
VTV	Vanguard Value Index Fund ETF Shares	$262.30B	0.03%
SCHD	Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF	$112.34B	0.06%
VYM	Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares	$100.84B	0.04%
IWD	iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF	$83.95B	0.18%
IVE	iShares S&P 500 Value ETF	$50.02B	0.18%
DIA	State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust	$45.46B	0.16%
DGRO	iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF	$43.46B	0.08%
CGDV	Capital Group Dividend Value ETF	$38.69B	0.33%

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