HDV: iShares Core High Dividend ETF

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.

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

How has HDV done since 2011?#

From March 2011 to October 2026, HDV returned about 11.0% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $50,919 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.

HDV returns by year#

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.

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 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. 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.