FlexShares Quality Dividend Index Fund
QDF NYSE Arca
For investors seeking an investment that emphasizes US quality while maintaining a beta near 1. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Northern Trust Quality Dividend Index™
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- Fund size
- 1.62B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.37% per year
- Dividend yield
- 0.89% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 11.9% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.85 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 76.8593.15
How QDF 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, QDF returned +18.9% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +1.0 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 ±12% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −8.1% on Mar 30, 2026 — 33 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 6% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.85 means QDF 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 average91.25 +0.5%
- 26-day average91.16 +0.6%
- 50-day average90.95 +0.8%
- 200-day average86.60 +5.9%
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 · LargeCap Dividend Yield — tracking the Northern Trust Quality Dividend Index™.
- Assets under management1.62BUSD
- Expense ratio0.37%per year
- Holdings175
- Risk score4.0Medium
Launched December 2012. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 9 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.82
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 18, 2026
Last 12 months
0.82 USD / shareWhere QDF shows up
Curated themes and indices that hold QDF. Open one to see it in context, or test the whole theme in a portfolio.
Filings & reports
Regulatory filings, reports and announcements, newest first.
| Fact Sheet | Jun 1, 2019 |
About FlexShares Quality Dividend Index Fund
For investors seeking an investment that emphasizes US quality while maintaining a beta near 1. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Northern Trust Quality Dividend Index™
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 175 holdings
- 12 documents on file
- Ticker
- QDF
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US33939L8607
- CUSIP
- 33939L860
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- US Equity
- Industry
- LargeCap Dividend Yield
- Benchmark
- Northern Trust Quality Dividend Index™
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.