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iShares dividend and income ETFs

We track 17 iShares funds: 12 dividend equity, 2 REIT, 2 preferred share and 1 cash and hisa. The highest on our Income Durability Score are CPD (81), XDIV (81) and XEI (79).

Yields, fees and holdings are from iShares's own published documents; each fund page links to its official page.

CompareTicker ⇅FundTypeScore ▼Yield ⇅1-yr return ⇅Fee ⇅Worst drop ⇅Liquidity ⇅
CPDiShares S&P/TSX Canadian Preferred Share Index ETFPreferred 815.0%+6.0%0.50%-29.1%High
XDIViShares Core MSCI Canadian Quality Dividend Index ETFDividend 813.0%+35.2%0.11%-23.8%Very high
XEIiShares S&P/TSX Composite High Dividend Index ETFDividend 793.3%+29.9%0.22%-28.5%Very high
XDGiShares Core MSCI Global Quality Dividend Index ETFDividend 782.6%+20.1%0.22%-15.6%Medium
CDZiShares S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index ETFDividend 782.7%+18.4%0.66%-43.9%High
XDViShares Canadian Select Dividend Index ETFDividend 782.7%+30.5%0.55%-43.6%Very high
XDUiShares Core MSCI US Quality Dividend Index ETFDividend 752.0%+19.6%0.16%-14.8%Medium
XDGHiShares Core MSCI Global Quality Dividend Index ETF (CAD-Hedged)Dividend 753.1%+19.3%0.22%-21.5%Medium
CYHiShares Global Monthly Dividend Index ETF (CAD-Hedged)Dividend 753.4%+15.7%0.65%-55.8%Medium
XHUiShares U.S. High Dividend Equity Index ETFDividend 742.6%+28.3%0.33%-19.9%Medium
XPFiShares S&P/TSX North American Preferred Stock Index ETF (CAD-Hedged)Preferred 735.3%+0.3%0.50%-22.8%Low
XHDiShares U.S. High Dividend Equity Index ETF (CAD-Hedged)Dividend 722.4%+24.8%0.33%-27.1%Medium
XDUHiShares Core MSCI US Quality Dividend Index ETF (CAD-Hedged)Dividend 701.9%+17.9%0.16%-22.0%Low
CUDiShares US Dividend Growers Index ETF (CAD-Hedged)Dividend 691.8%+14.3%0.66%-26.3%Low
XREiShares S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index ETFREIT 694.5%+4.0%0.60%-54.7%Very high
CGRiShares Global Real Estate Index ETFREIT 682.4%+5.7%0.72%-27.0%Medium
CMRiShares Premium Money Market ETFCash newn/a2.6%+2.2%0.13%-0.0%Very high
Type

What the fund sells calls on.

The fund owns stocks and sells the right to buy them at a set price. It collects a fee (premium) for that right, which is paid out as income. In exchange, big rises in the stocks are partly given up. A tag such as 1.25x marks leverage; "new" means under 12 months of history, too short to score.

Full definition in the glossary →

Income Durability Score

Out of 100, coloured from red (0) to green (100).

How well the fund has turned its yield into something you could actually keep. It is built from income, capital, risk and cost measures with fixed, published weights.

How we score →

Yield

A year of distributions divided by today's unit price. A high yield is not a high return: if the price falls as much as you were paid, you have gained nothing.

Full definition in the glossary →

Total return

This column is the total return over the last 12 months.

Price change plus all distributions, assuming distributions are reinvested. This is the number that tells you whether the payout was earned.

Full definition in the glossary →

MER

Management expense ratio: the fund's yearly management fee and operating costs as a share of its value, already taken out of returns. Trading costs come on top, as the trading expense ratio (TER) in the fund's ETF Facts; the score's fee measure adds the two.

Full definition in the glossary →

Worst drop (maximum drawdown)

The biggest fall from a high to a later low, in total return, so paying out a distribution does not count as a fall. A fund that fell 30% needs a 43% gain to get back.

Full definition in the glossary →

Liquidity

How easily you can buy or sell without moving the price, rated Very high to Very low by the average dollars traded per day. Thinly traded funds can have wide gaps between the buying and selling price; use limit orders.

Full definition in the glossary →

Volatility

Over the last 36 months.

How much returns bounce around, measured as an annualized standard deviation. Higher means a bumpier ride. It counts rises as well as falls, so the score uses downside deviation instead.

Full definition in the glossary →

Beta

How far the fund tends to move when the S&P 500 moves, over the last 36 months. A beta of 0.7 means it moved about 0.7% for each 1% move in the index.

Full definition in the glossary →

Up and down capture

This column is up capture: the share of its own benchmark's gains the fund took in rising months. The fund's page names the benchmark.

How much of its own benchmark's gains (up) and losses (down) the fund took over the last 36 months. Down capture under 100% means the calls cushioned the falls; leverage pushes both above 100%.

Full definition in the glossary →

Up and down capture

This column is down capture: the share of its own benchmark's losses the fund took in falling months. The fund's page names the benchmark.

How much of its own benchmark's gains (up) and losses (down) the fund took over the last 36 months. Down capture under 100% means the calls cushioned the falls; leverage pushes both above 100%.

Full definition in the glossary →

Total return

This column is the total return per year over the last 3 years.

Price change plus all distributions, assuming distributions are reinvested. This is the number that tells you whether the payout was earned.

Full definition in the glossary →

Return of capital (ROC)

The share of last year's payout classed as return of capital.

A part of the payout that is treated as your own money coming back. It is not taxed right away, but it lowers your cost base, so you may owe more tax when you sell.

Full definition in the glossary →

Rankings are information, not a recommendation to buy or sell any fund.