Other ETFs that eschew large exposures to high-yield sectors that have been topping the S&P 500 in recent months include the WisdomTree Total Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: DTD). The $437.5 million DTD has a 6.6% weight to the utilities sector, but the ETF’s utilities exposure did not prevent it from gaining 28.1% when Treasury yields spiked last year.
An interesting factoid about DTD is that the ETF’s top-10 holdings, which combine for about 23% of the ETF’s weight, include nine of the 10 largest U.S. dividend payers. DTD is up almost 8% since the start of March. [An ETF for the Largest Dividend Payers]
Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF
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