iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO)

How has DGRO done since 2014?#

From June 2014 to October 2026, DGRO returned about 12.4% a year. The S&P 500 returned about 13.7% a year over the same dates. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $42,218 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

DGRO returns by month and year#

DGRO rose in 100 of its 149 months (67%). Its best month was November 2020, at 12.1%. Its worst was March 2020, at −12.8%.

How risky is DGRO compared with the S&P 500?#

Measured from October 2021 to October 2026, on the days both traded.

• Beta 0.71. When the S&P 500 moved 1% in a day, DGRO tended to move about 0.71%.
• Correlation 0.89. DGRO mostly moved with the S&P 500.
• Up and down months. In months the S&P 500 rose, DGRO rose 85% as much on average. In months it fell, DGRO fell 84% as much.

Is DGRO above its 200-day average?#

DGRO closed 6.4% above its 200-day average on October 16, 2026. A rule that holds DGRO only above that average would hold it today.

What was DGRO’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. DGRO’s worst fall was −35.1%, from February 12, 2020 to March 23, 2020. It got back to that high on November 9, 2020. On October 16, 2026 it was 1.0% below its highest close.

What does DGRO hold?#

This fund owns US companies that have raised their dividends year after year. A dividend is cash a company pays to its owners. The fund pays out that cash every three months, but its price still goes up and down with stocks.

It tracks the Morningstar US Dividend Growth Index. It had 391 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the DGRO expense ratio?#

DGRO charges 0.08% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.08% fee comes to about $8 a year. Of the 162 ETFs on Tactfolio, 60% charge more.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold DGRO?#

No classic strategy holds DGRO yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does DGRO compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for DGRO:

• VIG: Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, 0.04% a year
• DGRW: WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund, 0.28% a year
• NOBL: ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF, 0.35% a year
• VYM: Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, 0.04% a year

See all 8 DGRO alternatives, compared on the same dates as DGRO.

Test DGRO in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add DGRO, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for DGRO and SPY. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Beta and correlation compare daily returns with the S&P 500 over the same dates.

Fund facts come from iShares (BlackRock). We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.