ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF
SMDV CBOE - exBATS
ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the Russell 2000® Dividend Growth Index. The only ETF focusing exclusively on the best dividend growers in the Russell 2000—quality companies that have not just paid dividen...
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- Fund size
- 748M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.40% per year
- Dividend yield
- 1.34% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 14.0% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.70 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 63.1378.67
How SMDV 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, SMDV returned +14.4% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +1.5 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 −9.8% on Mar 20, 2026 — 35 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 18% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.70 means SMDV 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 average72.60 −0.2%
- 26-day average73.40 −1.3%
- 50-day average74.23 −2.4%
- 200-day average72.61 −0.2%
The price is above 0 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
US Equity · SmallCap (risk-weighted) — tracking the Russell 2000® Dividend Growth Index.
- Assets under management748MUSD
- Expense ratio0.40%per year
- Holdings73
- Risk score4.3Medium
Launched February 2015. Fund data as of Feb 27, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 13 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.97
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 23, 2026
Last 12 months
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About ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF
ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the performance of the Russell 2000® Dividend Growth Index. The only ETF focusing exclusively on the best dividend growers in the Russell 2000—quality companies that have not just paid dividends but grown them for at least 10 consecutive years. SMDV's strategy has a demonstrated history of weathering market turbulence over time by capturing a significant portion of the gains of rising markets and fewer of the losses in falling markets.
- Featured in 2 curated themes
- 73 holdings
- Ticker
- SMDV
- Exchange
- CBOE - exBATS
- ISIN
- US74347B6983
- CUSIP
- 74347B698
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- US Equity
- Industry
- SmallCap (risk-weighted)
- Benchmark
- Russell 2000® Dividend Growth 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.