Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF
QVAL CBOE - exBATS
AlphaArchitect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF seeks to buy the cheapest, highest quality value stocks. The QVAL universe consists of the largest 1500 stocks in the US market
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- Fund size
- 91.8M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.79% per year
- Dividend yield
- 1.45% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 13.7% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.81 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 44.7662.25
How QVAL has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 12Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, QVAL returned +37.4% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +2.0 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±14% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −6.3% on Sep 28, 2026 — 33 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 7% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.81 means QVAL has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average59.73 +1.5%
- 26-day average59.76 +1.4%
- 50-day average59.50 +1.8%
- 200-day average55.28 +9.6%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Factors · Value — tracking the Alpha Architect Quantitative Value Index.
- Assets under management91.8MUSD
- Expense ratio0.79%per year
- Holdings41
- Risk score6.5Medium
Launched October 2014. Fund data as of Feb 27, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 15 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.88
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 28, 2026
Last 12 months
0.88 USD / shareWhere QVAL shows up
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About Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF
AlphaArchitect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF seeks to buy the cheapest, highest quality value stocks. The QVAL universe consists of the largest 1500 stocks in the US market
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 41 holdings
- Ticker
- QVAL
- Exchange
- CBOE - exBATS
- ISIN
- US02072L1026
- CUSIP
- 02072L102
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Factors
- Industry
- Value
- Benchmark
- Alpha Architect Quantitative Value Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 27, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.