MDY Mid Cap ETF (MDY)

MDY Mid Cap ETF — analysis

In the mid cap group, MDY Mid Cap ETF (MDY) has gathered $30.5B. The cost line is 54 bps per year, the benchmark is Index Benchmark, and the fund has traded since 2002.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, MDY scores 66/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 29% of the fund. That places MDY in above-average composite quality territory inside the Mid Cap cohort.

MDY compounded at 17.1% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 16.0% on the benchmark. The 1.1-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on MDY is 4.60%, with distributions growing at 11.1% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

MDY weight stack: top 10 names equal 29%, sector tilt Technology 28%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.38%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as MDY: 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.