DVY: iShares Select Dividend ETF

What does DVY hold?#

This fund owns about 100 US companies that pay high dividends. A dividend is cash a company pays to its owners. Many of its companies are banks, utilities and energy firms, so it is not spread evenly across the market.

It tracks the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index. It had 98 holdings as of October 15, 2026, according to iShares (BlackRock).

What is the DVY expense ratio?#

DVY charges 0.38% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.38% fee comes to about $38 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 DVY done since 2003?#

From November 2003 to October 2026, DVY returned about 8.9% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $71,285 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.

DVY returns by year#

What was DVY’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. DVY’s worst fall was −62.6%, from May 22, 2007 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on January 29, 2013.

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 DVY?#

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

How does DVY compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for DVY:

• 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
• HDV: iShares Core High Dividend ETF, 0.08% a year

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

Test DVY 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 DVY, 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 DVY. 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.