DGRW and DLN deliver monthly dividends by holding ordinary U.S. equities, bypassing the options and leverage most monthly-income ETFs depend on. DGRS surged 25% year-to-date and 32% over one year, outpacing its large-cap siblings, though small-cap holdings carry greater balance-sheet risk. Don't wait: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just revealed his top 10 AI stocks.
See the full list FREE now. Most income investors think of dividends as a quarterly event. Three WisdomTree funds break that pattern by distributing monthly.
Quality Dividend Growth Fund (NASDAQ:DGRW), the WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund (NYSEARCA:DLN), and the WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Quality Dividend Growth Fund (NASDAQ:DGRS) all cut a check twelve times a year rather than four.
What separates them from the monthly-payer crowd is what sits inside. They own ordinary U.S. equities and pass through the underlying dividend stream on a smoothed monthly cadence, rather than harvesting option premium or leaning on leverage the way covered-call and closed-end vehicles do. U.S. large caps are screened by DGRW for return on equity, return on assets, and long-term earnings growth expectations, with holdings then weighted by cash dividends paid.
That construction allows the fund to hold companies that most traditional dividend funds tend to underweight or exclude, including large-cap technology names that pay modest yields but grow them aggressively. The monthly payout record is long and unbroken. Ex-dividend dates cluster around the 24th to 28th of each month, and 2025 delivered twelve consecutive payments ranging from $0.00304 in January to $0.2327 in December.
The trailing twelve-month distribution total is $1.2327 per share, with 163 dividend records dating back to 2013. The amounts vary month to month because the fund distributes what the underlying portfolio actually earns rather than smoothing to a fixed figure. Performance has kept up with the growth-heavy tilt.
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