Strive 1000 Dividend Growth ETF

Strive 1000 Dividend Growth ETF (STXD) tracks the Bloomberg U.S. 1000 Dividend Growth Index: about 200 large and mid-sized U.S. growth companies that have raised their dividends for at least five straight years. Many dividend funds favor high payers. This one leans toward faster-growing companies such as Eli Lilly, Broadcom and Microsoft, so its yield is modest: 1.08% as of October 27, 2026. Its 0.35% expense ratio is higher than the 0.15% charged by the most similar fund.

• Over the year to Oct 27, 2026, STXD returned +8.0%.
• Its worst full calendar year was 2023 (+14.0%); its best was 2025 (+14.8%).
• The deepest fall in its price history was 14.9% (Oct 14, 2024 to Apr 8, 2025), recovered by Jun 10, 2025.

As of Jun 30, 2026, the fund held 178 securities; the ten largest made up 39.82% of assets.

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• Over the three months to Jun 30, 2026, investors added a net $1.4M (creations minus redemptions, per the N-PORT report).
• Monthly total returns reported for that quarter: +6.91%, +2.19%, +2.70%.

STXD is an index fund. It seeks to track the Bloomberg U.S. 1000 Dividend Growth Index, which is drawn from the Bloomberg U.S. 1000 Growth Index of large and mid-sized U.S. growth companies. To qualify, a company must have raised its dividend for five years in a row. Its five-year dividend growth must also beat that of the broader growth index. Each stock must trade at least $5 million a day on average. The index usually holds about 200 stocks. The fund held 178 as of June 30, 2026.

Holdings are weighted by free-float market value, which means the value of shares available to the public. Bigger companies get bigger slices. Caps limit concentration: the eight largest can reach 5% each, and the rest are capped at 2.5%. Any excess weight is spread across the other stocks. The index adds and removes stocks once a year in April and resets weights each quarter, in January, April, July and October. The fund follows the same schedule.

Strive Asset Management, the sub-adviser, generally buys every stock in the index in roughly the same proportions. It may hold a representative sample instead. It does not try to beat the index or move to cash when markets fall. Portfolio turnover was 27%, according to the prospectus. The fund uses no leverage, options or derivatives.

• STXD charges 0.35% a year, versus an average of 0.15% for the similar funds below.
• Using the prospectus's standard example, $10,000 invested would cost about $36 in the first year and $443 over 10 years (assuming a 5% annual return).

It holds about 178 large and mid-sized U.S. stocks under a rules-based index, so it could anchor the U.S. stock part of a portfolio with a tilt toward companies that grow their dividends.

STXD could serve as a core U.S. stock holding, but its record is short. It launched on November 10, 2022, after the 2022 bear market had bottomed, so it has no record through the 2008, 2020 or 2022 sell-offs. According to the prospectus, it gained between 14.6% and 14.9% in each calendar year from 2023 to 2025. Its deepest drop was 14.9%, from October 14, 2024, to April 8, 2025. It recovered by June 10, 2025, about two months later. A retiree who sold shares near that low would have locked in losses. Income is modest: the yield was 1.08% as of October 27, 2026, paid quarterly. In the SEC's standard example, costs on $10,000 come to $36 after one year and $443 after 10 years. Past results don't predict the future, and a plan should look at the whole portfolio, not one fund.

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