Why dividend stocks may be more like bonds in a volatile market

For many investors, it is always a good time for dividend shares, and the income component reached the shareholders of the cash flow of the corporations that provide ups and downs and short -term falls in the prices of the shares. But now, as the markets of shares and bonds see acute peaks in volatility, dividend shares can attract an even broader group of investors, playing a more intermediate role between the growth and performance of the shares.

Now there are about 100 dividend shares focused on exchange of exchange funds, according to the action of the ETF, they thought that the vast majority of assets are concentrated in those of the largest index fund, including Vanguard dividend ETF appreciation (Vig), ETF of Schwab US dividends (Schd), and ETF of dividend growth of Ishares Core (DGRO).

Top 5 ETF of dividends, by total assets under administration

1. Vanguard dividend ETF appreciation: $ 81 billion
2. Schwab ee. Uu. This of Dividends ETF: $ 65 billion
3. Vanguard High Dividend Brinding Index ETF: $ 54 billion
4. ISHARES DIVIDER GROWTH ETF: $ 28 billion
5. SPDR S&P DIVIDEND ETF: $ 19 billion

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As the ETF space administered by Acty continues to grow, there is an increasing number of ETF of dividends administered by Activesidy, such as the ETF of Dividend Growth of T. Rowe (TDVG), with the managers who bet on the highest quality payers.

TDVG was one of the first ETF that T. Rowe Price, known for its traditional mutual funds, was launched in 2020. The company now has 19 ETF in all and $ 13 billion in ETF assets. The ETF of dividends has more than $ 700 million in assets.

I can’t help but can limit technology

Investors seeking to avoid technological actions given the recent difficult patch in the market, although they recovered sharply last week, that cannot be in this dividend fund, with the largest technological companies now also the largest payers of Howers dividends. The main properties of TDVG are Apple and Microsoft, each of around 5%. They are also among the main properties of Vigard’s Vig and Ishares’ Dgro.

Investors who expect the general trip of the technological sector to continue with potholes can be exposed to some of the largest dividend payers in the technology industry, without overweight of the technological sector as a whole, such as the S&P 500 index, through ETF of dividends such as TDVG.

“We have finally reached a point in the cycle in which the overweight of the ‘Mag 7’ all of them has reached its limit,” said Todd Sohn, head of ETFs in strategy, at the “ETF edge” of CNBC last week last week last week.

“It does not go zero, but is diluted a bit, or overweight a name and low weight to the rest,” he said.

The biggest TDVG participations after Apple and Microsoft are Visa, JP Morgan and Chubb. Its general exhibition to the technological sector is approximately 19%, compared to about 30% for S&P 500.

Tim Coyne, head of the ETF business of T. Rowe, said together with SOHN in “ETF Edge” that macro income issues and dividends payment have led to strong entries in the dividend funds of the ETF industry.

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ETF of main dividends, by yield to date

1. Franklin US Under Volatility High Dividends Index ETF: 3.7%
2. Opal dividend income ETF: 2.3%
3. Ishares Core High Dividend ETF: 1.9%
4. FIRST TRUST OF DIVIDER LEADERS OF MORNINGSTAR: 0.7%
5. Monarch Dividend Plus ETF: 0.2%

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Coyne says that the ETF of active dividends, in particular, make sense for investors in a volatile market. Passive dividend funds are, due to their nature, more static, because they only change as part of the regular re -quilibrium periods scheduled for the underlying indices, not in response to any change in the impulse of the stock or the sector or in the environment of Everalet. TDVG seeks the dual objectives of payment of dividend income, but also the appreciation of long -term capital in the prices of the shares it has.

Actively administered dividends ETFs do not rivate the ETF options of the popularity index. The ETF of dividends administered passively, consisting of the widest investors, have captured most flows in 2025, with approximately $ 7 billion, versus $ 3.7 billion for ETF of active dividends, according to the ETF action. The ETFs of the dividend shares index continue to have a great advantage, said Sohn, and a reason is a much lower cost. “I could buy an ETF of dividends for only a couple of basic points, but you are seeing more active players,” he said.

TDVG has an expenditure ratio or 0.50% (or 50 basic points). The VAGUARD VIG, by comparison, charges 0.05%(or 5 basic points).

Sohn says that the ETF of dividends actively administered should advance in the collection of assets over time. “It will begin to see more traction between active managers who will also focus on looking for colleagues who pay dividends, or ate less properly valued, and also have this dividend, as the son of a bonus in a certain sense.”

They are retirees who live with a fixed income that generally benefit more than a dividend investment strategy, “older people who want this current of income because they do not depend so much on a payment check every week,” Sahn said.

But he added that looking at dividend shares makes sense for many types of investors. That is especially true, he said, at a time of high risk in the bond market, where investors follow the yield.

Top ETF of Dividends by current yield

1. Invesco Kbw High Dividend Financial ETF Performance: 14%
2. Hoya High Capital Dividend ETF: 11%
3. Invesco Kbw Etf reit of premium performance capital: 10%
4. Capital infrastructure ETF income: 9.7%
5. Kraneshares Value Line Dynamic Dividend Equity Index ETF: 9.2%

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The ETF of higher performance dividends have had their short -term performance problems, with the five main performance payers that see yield decreases of between 5% and 11% in the year to date, according to the ETF action. The main ETF of dividends for yield, on the contrary, pay much lower yields, and the five main ones have levels of dividend income of twelve months between 1.3% and 4.2%.

Never buy only

The host of “ETF Edge” and the correspondent of the senior markets of CNBC, Bob Pisani, warn investors against the purchase of a dividend fund based only on performance. The highest dividend payers in a basic percentage can also be the most vulnerable to dividend cuts if their financial position weakens. The recent example was the energy sector, where many of the large oil and gas companies had quantian dividends that became vulnerable when their balances were put under tension in recent years, although since then they have recovered. The objective should be the objective of finding a balance of shares that are dividend payers consisting while offering capital appreciation.

One of the best market shares this year does not pay dividends and never has: Berkshire Hathaway by Warren Buffett – thought that a new ETF is trying to address that.

Coyne said that the concerns that a dividend payer are stressed financial and cutting a payment of what investors have come to depend is where the active management can make a difference, “sailing through the markets as it sees an increase in volatility and even the acex of shares.”

The cash flows of corporations will be put to a new test in a period of global commercial war that could generate risks of revenue bases abroad from US companies, as well as a blow to their profit margins. But solid dividend payers can be attractive to investors in a market where bonds have been under atypical stress due to Trump administration’s economic policy as well. While it would go too far to say that there is a systemic “credit problem” in the market at this time, Sohn said that the differentials in the bonds have increased both in the corporate bond market and in the CDs market, and investors have leg fields.

“You will not want to have super high performance when the credit backdrop deteriorates for corporate America,” Sahn said.

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