Northern Trust Emerging Markets Quality Low Volatility ETF QLVE AMEX · Financials · United States
$32.38 +0.00% +$0.00
Summary
Northern Trust Emerging Markets Quality Low Volatility ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by FlexShares. Positions inside: 164. The ten largest make up 35% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.19%
- Fund size
- $15.6M
- Positions
- 164
- Dividend yield
- 2.45%
- Running since
- 2019
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.19% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.45%).
What to watch
- A small fund with $15.6M under management; small funds get closed more often.
- It trades little: only about $13.2K changes hands a day.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -3.5%
- 3 months
- -3.8%
- This year
- +10%
- 1 year
- +8.0%
- 3 years
- +46%
- 5 years
- +20%
- Avg. market cap
- $535.2B
- P/E
- 7.8x
- Forward P/E
- 6.5x
- P/S
- 2.1x
- P/B
- 1.8x
- P/FCF
- 9.6x
- EV/EBITDA
- 3.6x
- Dividend yield
- 1.69%
- ROIC
- 24.2%
- ROE
- 33.6%
- Gross margin
- 49.8%
- Operating margin
- 40.2%
- Net margin
- 34.2%
- Payout ratio
- 13.3%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- -0.3x
- Beta
- 0.83
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 69% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Moderately concentrated- 1 23Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 2330.TW 14%
- 2 00Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 005930.KS 5.6%
- 3 00SK hynix Inc. 000660.KS 3.6%
- 4 07Tencent Holdings Limited 0700.HK 2.7%
- 5 13Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited 1398.HK 2.5%
- 6 00Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 005935.KS 1.8%
- 7 HDHDFC Bank Limited HDFCBANK.BO 1.5%
- 8 39Bank of China Limited 3988.HK 1.2%
- 9 PEPetróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras PETR4.SA 1.2%
- 10 INInfosys Limited INFY.BO 1.2%
Positions in the fund: 164. The ten largest make up 35% of it.
Composition as of Nov 7, 2026.
Where is it spread?
Spread outBy sector
- Technology 38%
- Financials 17%
- Communication services 10%
- Energy 9.3%
- Consumer defensive 6.0%
- Other 19%
By country
- Taiwan 25%
- South Korea 17%
- India 17%
- China 14%
- Other countries 20%
By company size
- Mega cap 35%
- Large cap 45%
- Mid cap 20%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest sector: Technology (38%). Largest country: Taiwan (25%). Largest size group: Large cap (45%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $19.00
- Over 20 years
- $944
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $19.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $944.
How has it done?
Growing slowly- A year on average, 5 years
- +3.7%
- Deepest drop
- -29%
- Yearly volatility
- 21%
Average yearly growth over the last five years: 3.7%. Deepest drop in these years: 29% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 2.45%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.34
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.79 per share, which is 2.45% of today's price. The last payment was $0.34 on Sep 18, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
It trades little- Traded a day
- $13.2K
- Shares a day
- 408
On an average day about $13.2K of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather cheap- P/E of the companies inside
- 7.8
- Average Bulios Score
- 77 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 69%
- Fairly valued 6.9%
- Overvalued 24%
On average the companies inside trade for 7.8 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 69% of the rated weight comes out as undervalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 69% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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GE GEM Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta Emerging Markets Equity ETF | United States | 0.59% | $1.60B | +12% | Pays out | 40% |
UI UIMI.DE UBS Core MSCI EM UCITS ETF USD dis | Luxembourg | 0.15% | $11.3B | +19% | Pays out | 40% |