DGRO: iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF

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.

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

How has DGRO done since 2014?#

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

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

DGRO returns by year#

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.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

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. 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.

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.