QDEF – FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund
FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund (QDEF) is a Large Value ETF, issued by Flexshares Trust, $499M in assets, 0.37% expense ratio.
Returns as of Oct 23, 2026: 1 week -0.4%, 1 year +15.9%.
Tracks high-quality, income-oriented U.S. equities. Targets long-term growth with beta between 0.5-1.0 times the Northern Trust 1250 Index.
Top holdings
- AAPL – Apple Inc, 7.3%
- NVDA – NVIDIA Corporation, 6.3%
- AVGO – Broadcom Inc, 4.7%
- MSFT – Microsoft Corporation, 4.5%
- JNJ – Johnson & Johnson, 3.3%
- ABBV – AbbVie Inc, 2.8%
- PG – Procter & Gamble Company, 2.6%
- GOOGL – Alphabet Inc Class A, 2.3%
- PM – Philip Morris International Inc, 2.0%
- JPM – JPMorgan Chase & Co, 2.0%
- GOOG – Alphabet Inc Class C, 1.9%
- CSCO – Cisco Systems Inc, 1.6%
- KLAC – KLA-Tencor Corporation, 1.5%
- MRK – Merck & Company Inc, 1.4%
- TJX – The TJX Companies Inc, 1.3%
- QCOM – Qualcomm Incorporated, 1.3%
- GILD – Gilead Sciences Inc, 1.2%
- LOW – Lowe's Companies Inc, 1.2%
- NEM – Newmont Goldcorp Corp, 1.0%
- LMT – Lockheed Martin Corporation, 0.9%
- INTU – Intuit Inc, 0.9%
- BMY – Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, 0.9%
- AEM – Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, 0.8%
- ADP – Automatic Data Processing Inc, 0.8%
- MO – Altria Group, 0.8%