DIA: State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust

What does DIA hold?#

This fund owns the 30 well known US companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index gives more weight to stocks with higher share prices, not bigger companies. With only 30 stocks, it is less spread out than the S&P 500.

It tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It had 30 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to SPDR (State Street).

What is the DIA expense ratio?#

DIA charges 0.16% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.16% fee comes to about $16 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 DIA done since 1998?#

From January 1998 to October 2026, DIA returned about 9.0% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $119,764 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.

DIA returns by year#

What was DIA’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. DIA’s worst fall was −51.9%, from October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on January 19, 2012.

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 DIA?#

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

How does DIA compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for DIA:

• SCHX: Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF, 0.03% a year
• VV: Vanguard Morningstar Large-Cap ETF, 0.03% a year
• IWB: iShares Russell 1000 ETF, 0.15% a year
• SPYM: State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF, 0.02% a year

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

Test DIA 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 DIA, 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 DIA. 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 SPDR (State Street). We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.