DGRO Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO)

DGRO Dividend Growth ETF — analysis

In the dividend growth group, DGRO Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO) has gathered $32.7B. The cost line is 30 bps per year, the benchmark is Index Benchmark, and the fund has traded since 2002.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, DGRO scores 68/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 31% of the fund. That places DGRO in above-average composite quality territory inside the Dividend Growth cohort.

DGRO compounded at 16.7% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 15.0% on the benchmark. The 1.7-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on DGRO is 4.20%, with distributions growing at 8.7% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

DGRO weight stack: top 10 names equal 31%, sector tilt Technology 28%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.76%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as DGRO: SPY, VOO, VTI. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.