WisdomTree US SmallCap Dividend Fund
DES NYSE Arca
WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Fund seeks to track the investment results of dividend-paying small-cap companies in the U.S. equity market. With the fund, gain core U.S. small cap equity exposure to a broad range of dividend paying companies and complement or replace small cap value or dividend...
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- Fund size
- 1.81B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.38% per year
- Dividend yield
- 2.30% Monthly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 14.3% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.83 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 31.0141.47
How DES has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, DES returned +25.6% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +2.8 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 −8.7% on Sep 30, 2026 — 47 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 19% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.83 means DES 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 average38.89 +0.8%
- 26-day average38.81 +1.0%
- 50-day average38.99 +0.6%
- 200-day average37.88 +3.5%
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
US Equity · SmallCap (risk-weighted) — tracking the WisdomTree Small Cap Dividend Index.
- Assets under management1.81BUSD
- Expense ratio0.38%per year
- Holdings743
- Risk score5.7Medium
Launched June 2006. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 23 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.90
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Last paid
- Oct 27, 2026
Last 12 months
0.90 USD / shareWhere DES shows up
Curated themes and indices that hold DES. Open one to see it in context, or test the whole theme in a portfolio.
Filings & reports
Regulatory filings, reports and announcements, newest first.
About WisdomTree US SmallCap Dividend Fund
WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Fund seeks to track the investment results of dividend-paying small-cap companies in the U.S. equity market. With the fund, gain core U.S. small cap equity exposure to a broad range of dividend paying companies and complement or replace small cap value or dividend oriented active and passive strategies
- Featured in 2 curated themes
- 743 holdings
- 9 documents on file
- Ticker
- DES
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US97717W6049
- CUSIP
- 97717W604
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- US Equity
- Industry
- SmallCap (risk-weighted)
- Benchmark
- WisdomTree Small Cap Dividend Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.