FlexShares US Quality Large Cap Index Fund (QLC)
Description
The investment seeks to track the performance of the Northern Trust Quality Large Cap Index. The QLC ETF contains 157 constituents. It is focused on blend holdings in the North America region.
Price $40.78 as of 2022-10-20Cost/Risk/Yield
| Dividend yield | 1.43% |
| Expense ratio | 0.32% |
| Average spread | 0.147% |
| 1Y roundtrip cost | 0.467% |
Historic prices
Total Returns (including dividends)
Monthly returns heatmap
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | -4.2% | -2.8% | 3.1% | -8.4% | 0.8% | -8.8% | 8.9% | -3.9% | -9.3% | 2.8% | -21.8% | ||
| 2021 | -0.3% | 2.0% | 4.5% | 5.0% | 1.8% | 2.1% | 2.9% | 2.8% | -5.2% | 5.9% | -0.7% | 5.0% | 25.8% |
| 2020 | -0.8% | -9.7% | -12.4% | 12.8% | 5.2% | 1.8% | 4.7% | 6.4% | -4.0% | -3.7% | 11.1% | 4.8% | 16.2% |
| 2019 | 8.5% | 3.2% | -0.2% | 2.4% | -7.9% | 7.4% | 2.2% | -3.5% | 2.8% | 1.9% | 3.4% | 3.0% | 23.2% |
| 2018 | 5.3% | -3.0% | -1.8% | 1.2% | 1.0% | 0.2% | 2.9% | 2.5% | 0.2% | -5.8% | -0.2% | -9.9% | -7.5% |
| 2017 | 1.3% | 4.8% | -0.5% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 1.4% | 1.8% | -0.4% | 3.2% | 3.4% | 2.9% | 1.6% | 20.0% |
| 2016 | -7.3% | 2.2% | 5.4% | 1.4% | -1.0% | -0.9% | 4.3% | 0.2% | 0.5% | -2.6% | 5.9% | 0.9% | 9.0% |
| 2015 | 7.6% | 0.2% | -2.0% | 5.7% | |||||||||
| 2.4% | -3.4% | -1.9% | 14.7% | -0.1% | 3.2% | 27.7% | 4.2% | -11.8% | 9.5% | 22.7% | 3.4% |
Historical Dividends
Monthly dividend heatmap
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.43 | |||||||||
| 2021 | 0.10 | 0.13 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.50 | ||||||||
| 2020 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.57 | ||||||||
| 2019 | 0.11 | 0.28 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.70 | ||||||||
| 2018 | 0.10 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.55 | ||||||||
| 2017 | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.43 | ||||||||
| 2016 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.17 | 0.39 | |||||||||
| 2015 | 0.17 | 0.17 | |||||||||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.61 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.96 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.11 |
Sectors and Top Holdings
| Security | % Assets |
|---|---|
| Apple Inc. | 7.26% |
| Microsoft Corporation | 4.76% |
| Alphabet Inc. Class A | 3.41% |
| Alphabet Inc. Class C | 3.25% |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | 2.22% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2.05% |
| Meta Platforms Inc. Class A | 2.02% |
| Adobe Inc. | 1.91% |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 1.85% |
| Intuit Inc. | 1.72% |
| Oracle Corporation | 1.72% |
| Eli Lilly and Company | 1.63% |
| Visa Inc. Class A | 1.63% |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 1.60% |
| Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B | 1.59% |
| Top 15 Weights | 38.62% |
Compare with similar ETFs
| QLC | GSUS | JULZ | OCTZ | RECS | SPD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product name | FlexShares US Quality Large Cap Index Fund | Goldman Sachs MarketBeta U.S. Equity ETF | TrueShares Structured Outcome (July) ETF | TrueShares Structured Outcome (October) ETF | Columbia Research Enhanced Core ETF | Simplify US Equity PLUS Downside Convexity ETF |
| Issuer | FlexShares | Goldman Sachs | TrueShares | TrueShares | Columbia | Simplify |
| Price | $40.779 | $49.79 | $30.845 | $28.234 | $21.853 | $24.69 |
| Expense Ratio | 0.32% |  0.07% |  0.79% | 0.79% | 0.15% | 0.29% |
| Average Spread | 0.147% | 0.100% | 0.519% | 0.460% | 0.458% | 0.203% |
| AUM | $116,846,000 | $344,950,000 | $13,825,800 | $6,321,060 | $19,540,000 | $272,313,000 |
| Shares | 2,865,358 | 6,928,094 | 448,236 | 223,881 | 894,155 | 11,029,276 |
| Average Daily Volume | 16,877 | 147,823 | 633 | 4,973 | 66,897 | 140,773 |
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| Inception Date | 2015-09-24 | 2020-05-12 | 2020-06-30 | 2020-09-30 | 2019-09-25 | 2020-09-03 |
| Index Tracked | Northern Trust Quality Large Cap Index | Solactive GBS United States Large & Mid Cap Index | No Underlying Index | No Underlying Index | Beta Advantage Research Enhanced U.S. Equity Index | No Underlying Index |
| Category | Large Cap Growth Equities | Large Cap Growth Equities | n/a | Volatility Hedged Equity | Large Cap Growth Equities | Large Cap Blend Equities |
| Asset Class | Equity | Equity | Volatility | Equity | Equity | Equity |
| Asset Class Size | Large Caps | Large Caps | Large Caps | Large Caps | ||
| Value or Growth | Blend | Blend | Blend | |||
| Region | North America | North America | North America | North America | North America | North America |
| Countries | U.S. | U.S. | U.S. | U.S. | U.S. | U.S. |
| Annual Dividend Rate | $0.585 | $0.545 | $0 | $0 | $5.556 | $0.303 |
| Annual Dividend Yield | 0.014% | 0.011% | 0.000% | 0.000% | 0.254% | 0.012% |
| Number of Holdings | 157 | 515 | 0 | 0 | 368 | 498 |
| YTD Return | -21.12% | -23.78% | -12.27% | -13.67% | -18.80% | -25.22% |
| Beta | 1.00 | 0.98 | 0.65 | 0.64 | 0.89 | 0.76 |
| Upside Beta | 0.61 | 0.44 | 0.35 | 0.29 | 0.45 | 0.29 |
| Downside Beta | -0.06 | -0.16 | 0.01 | -0.17 | -0.20 | -0.32 |
| Volatility 1Y | 22.15% | 23.08% | 15.09% | 15.25% | 21.38% | 15.79% |
| Sharpe Ratio 3Y | 0.45 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.71 | 0.00 |
| Treynor Ratio 3Y | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 |