Global X S&P 500 Quality Dividend ETF

Global X S&P 500 Quality Dividend ETF (QDIV) tracks the S&P 500 Quality High Dividend Index: S&P 500 companies that score well on both quality and dividend yield, held in roughly equal amounts. It pays monthly and charges 0.20% a year, under the 0.30% average of similar funds but above SCHD and VYM at 0.06%. With $32.7 million in assets as of May 31, 2026, it is the smallest of those funds.

• Over the year to Oct 27, 2026, QDIV returned +22.0%, 2nd of 8 among similar funds.
• Its 5-year annualized return was +8.8%.
• In the 2020 COVID crash it fell 39.5% and regained its old high 8.1 months after the low.
• Its worst full calendar year was 2022 (-0.4%); its best was 2019 (+29.5%).
• The deepest fall in its price history was 41.2% (Jan 16, 2020 to Mar 23, 2020), recovered by Jan 6, 2021.

As of May 31, 2026, the fund held 53 securities; the ten largest made up 23.84% of assets.

By sector

• Over the three months to May 31, 2026, investors added a net $0.00 (creations minus redemptions, per the N-PORT report).
• Monthly total returns reported for that quarter: +0.44%, +1.15%, -4.13%.

QDIV is an index fund. Its adviser, Global X Management Company LLC, doesn't pick stocks. It aims to match the S&P 500 Quality High Dividend Index from S&P (Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC). The index keeps only S&P 500 members that rank in the top 200 on both a quality score and dividend yield. (Quality screens generally favor companies with steady profits and healthy balance sheets.) The index had 54 members as of January 31, 2026.

The S&P 500 sizes companies by market value. This index instead gives every stock roughly equal weight. That is why the largest holding, Cisco, was just 2.7% of assets as of May 31, 2026. Twice a year the index adds and drops stocks, resets weights to equal and applies a sector cap to reduce sector concentration. Turnover, the share of the portfolio replaced in a year, was 69.42% according to the prospectus. The trading costs this creates come on top of the 0.20% annual fee.

QDIV generally owns every index stock in about the index's proportions (replication). It may instead hold a representative sample, a subset that resembles the index, if a stock is hard to trade. It uses no leverage or options and won't shift to cash when markets slide. The index and objective can change without a shareholder vote.

• QDIV charges 0.2% a year, versus an average of 0.3% for the similar funds below (3rd of 8, cheapest first).
• Using the prospectus's standard example, $10,000 invested would cost about $20 in the first year and $255 over 10 years (assuming a 5% annual return).

It pays monthly from a basket of S&P 500 dividend payers, but as a stock fund its price can drop sharply, so it fits as an income source alongside steadier holdings.

QDIV could add monthly dividends and an equal-weighted mix of large dividend payers. Its trailing yield, the past year's dividends divided by the share price, was 2.6% ($1.08 per share) as of October 27, 2026. The SEC's standard example puts costs at $20 for the first year on $10,000. Companies can cut dividends, so the payout isn't fixed.

Downturns have been harsh. Its deepest drop, 41.2% from January 16 to March 23, 2020, took about 9.5 months to recover. In 2022 it fell 18.5% from April to September and needed 16.8 months to regain its peak. Yet its worst calendar year, 2022, lost just 0.53%. Anyone cashing out shares in those stretches would have done so at depressed prices. It launched in 2018, so it has no 2008 record. Past results don't predict future returns, and any retirement plan needs to weigh the whole portfolio, not one fund.

Matched by holdings overlap from the latest N-PORT reports.