WisdomTree U.S. Value Fund

WisdomTree U.S. Value Fund (WTV) is an actively managed ETF. It uses a rules-based model to pick roughly 100 to 200 large and midsize U.S. companies that return a lot of cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases, and it screens them for profitability. Its 0.12% expense ratio is below the 0.23% average of similar value funds, though index peers such as SPYV and VYM cost less.

• Over the year to Oct 27, 2026, WTV returned +17.8%, 6th of 9 among similar funds.
• Its worst full calendar year was 2025 (+13.5%); its best was 2024 (+24.0%).
• The deepest fall in its price history was 19.3% (Jan 4, 2022 to Sep 30, 2022), recovered by Feb 1, 2023.

As of Jun 30, 2026, the fund held 123 securities; the ten largest made up 21.46% of assets.

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• Over the three months to Jun 30, 2026, investors added a net $149.0M (creations minus redemptions, per the N-PORT report).
• Monthly total returns reported for that quarter: +4.53%, +3.92%, -0.55%.

WTV doesn't track an index. Its adviser, WisdomTree Asset Management, uses a model to find U.S. companies with a high "total shareholder yield." That means the cash a company hands back to owners through dividends and share repurchases. The model also looks for profitable companies, measured by return on equity (profit compared with shareholders' money in the business) and return on assets (profit compared with everything the company owns). At least 80% of net assets must go to U.S. value stocks. The fund counts a stock as value if it has a high shareholder yield or belongs to an outside value index.

The portfolio is rebuilt and rebalanced at least once a year, and the adviser can act more often. Between rebalances, the fund may keep stocks that no longer pass the model. Portfolio turnover was 133%, so the fund replaced the equivalent of more than its whole portfolio in a year. As of June 30, 2026, it held 123 stocks, and the top 10 made up about 21% of assets. The largest were NVIDIA (3.3%), Dell Technologies (3.0%), Berkshire Hathaway (2.6%), Cisco (2.1%) and Southwest Airlines (1.9%).

WTV is a plain stock fund. It held no derivatives as of June 30, 2026. Like any ETF, its market price can drift slightly above or below the value of its holdings.

• WTV charges 0.12% a year, versus an average of 0.23% for the similar funds below (4th of 9, cheapest first).
• Using the prospectus's standard example, $10,000 invested would cost about $12 in the first year and $154 over 10 years (assuming a 5% annual return).

It adds a value and shareholder-yield tilt that can sit alongside a broad U.S. index fund rather than replace it.

WTV could balance growth-heavy holdings with profitable companies that return cash to owners. Its prospectus shows a mixed record in bad markets. It fell 31.17% in the quarter ended March 31, 2020, then finished 2020 up 6.14%. It lost 7.94% in 2022 and 8.04% in 2018, its weakest year from 2016 to 2025. Records shown here start in 2016, so 2008 isn't covered. In price data from 2022 onward, its deepest drop was 19.3%, from January 4 to September 30, 2022, and it recovered by February 1, 2023. Someone drawing income in a slump could have to cash out shares at low prices.

It yielded 2% as of October 27, 2026, paid quarterly. In the SEC's standard example, it costs $154 over 10 years on $10,000. Past results don't predict future returns, and a plan should look at the whole portfolio, not one fund.

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