Dividend ETFs Winning With Big Utilities Weights

RevenueShares Ultra Dividend Fund (NYSEArca: RDIV)

Utilities weight: 36.5%

Trailing 12-month yield: 2.39%

Comment: It is nearly impossible to beat RDIV’s utilities weight without going to a dedicated utilities ETF. That is perhaps the best explanation for why RDIV is up over 10% this year, a gain that is two and a half times that of the S&P 500.

RDIV is comprised of 60 stocks from the S&P 900, ranked by the average 12 month trailing dividend yield in each of the previous trailing four quarters, according to RevenueShares. Nearly two-thirds of the ETF’s 60 holdings have dividend increase streaks of at least five years.