iShares Core High Dividend ETF (HDV)

How has HDV done since 2011?#

From March 2011 to October 2026, HDV returned about 11.0% a year. The S&P 500 returned about 13.9% a year over the same dates. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $50,919 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

HDV returns by month and year#

HDV rose in 117 of its 187 months (63%). Its best month was April 2020, at 14.3%. Its worst was March 2020, at −14.4%.

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

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

• Beta 0.45. When the S&P 500 moved 1% in a day, HDV tended to move about 0.45%.
• Correlation 0.59. HDV moved with the S&P 500 some of the time.
• Up and down months. In months the S&P 500 rose, HDV rose 78% as much on average. In months it fell, HDV fell 58% as much.

Is HDV above its 200-day average?#

HDV closed 10.1% above its 200-day average on October 16, 2026. A rule that holds HDV only above that average would hold it today.

What was HDV’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. HDV’s worst fall was −37.0%, from December 23, 2019 to March 23, 2020. It got back to that high on March 8, 2021. On October 16, 2026 it closed at a new high.

What does HDV hold?#

This fund owns about 75 US companies that pay large dividends. A dividend is cash a company pays to its owners. Because it holds fewer companies, its top ten make up more than half of the fund.

It tracks the Morningstar Dividend Yield Focus Index. It had 74 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the HDV expense ratio?#

HDV 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 HDV?#

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

How does HDV compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for HDV:

• VYM: Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, 0.04% a year
• SCHD: Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF, 0.06% a year
• SPYD: State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF, 0.07% a year
• SPHD: Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF, 0.3% a year

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

Test HDV 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 HDV, 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 HDV 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.