Apple

NVIDIA

Microsoft

Broadcom

JPMorgan Chase & Co

Eli Lilly

Visa

UnitedHealth Group

Cisco Systems

Fidelity Dividend ETF for Rising Rates

FDRR tracks an index of large- and mid-cap companies in developed nations that exhibit strong dividend characteristics and have a positive correlation to increasing 10-year US Treasury yields.

Fidelity Dividend ETF For Rising Rates (FDRR) focuses on dividend stocks with a positive correlation to 10-year U.S. Treasury yields. FDRR is heavy in technology, with a sector breakdown close to the S&P 500, and has value characteristics. FDRR's dividend growth has outpaced inflation, which is a good point.

FDRR Failed To Outperformed In Rising Rates

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Dividend ETFs often appeal to investors seeking reliable or elevated income opportunities. Before investing, advisors and investors should understand two core elements of dividend ETFs.

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Fidelity Dividend ETF for Rising Rates invests in large and mid-cap companies with a dividend growth profile and positively correlated to rising Treasury yields. A historical FDRR ETF underperformance relative to alternative dividend growth ETFs is disappointing. Declining rates could add volatility to the strategy.

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The Fidelity Stocks for Inflation ETF and Fidelity Dividend ETF For Rising Rates funds are designed for an inflationary environment. The former, FCPI, focuses on fundamentals and momentum, while the latter, FDRR, seeks dividends and correlation with treasury yields. FCPI has outperformed FDRR since its inception, but both funds have lagged the S&P 500 index.

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The debate around economic resilience and the direction of inflation and interest rates continues into summer. Fidelity offers an array of ETFs to reflect your portfolio's position on the path of interest rates looking ahead.

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Fidelity Dividend ETF for Rising Rates invests in companies expected to perform well in a rising interest rate environment. The fund has underperformed historically raising questions about the effectiveness of its strategy with an outlook for rates to decline going forward. We recommend investors to avoid FDRR while considering alternative dividend ETFs.

FDRR: Strategy Concerns As Interest Rates Decline

Fidelity® Dividend ETF for Rising Rates holds dividend stocks showing a positive correlation to 10-year U.S. Treasury yields. The portfolio has better value and quality metrics than the benchmark. The FDRR ETF has lagged the S&P 500 and two popular quality dividend ETFs.

FDRR: Attractive Value And Quality, Yet Lagging In Rising Rates

FDRR is an investment vehicle mindful of macro, utilizing an equity strategy calibrated to benefit from tighter monetary policy in the U.S. Past performance revealed flaws in the strategy. A case for monetary policy to remain contractionary still could be constructed, but as FDRR's past performance illustrated, this is hardly enough for its holdings to appreciate meaningfully.

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Investing in dividend-paying stocks has proved to be a helpful strategy, outperforming global markets over the long term. Dividend income strategies play an important role for multi-asset income portfolios. But they can also run the risk of being too narrowly focused, which can limit both income potential and upside participation when equity markets rise.

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FDRR tracks the Fidelity Dividend Index For Rising Rates, a potentially misleading title considering how poor it performed last year. My analysis traced the performance to FDRR's sector-neutral strategy and a methodology that places minimal importance on a security's correlation with long-term U.S. Treasury yields.

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U.S. treasury yields jumped following the release of upbeat U.S. economic data points.

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Fidelity Dividend ETF for Rising Rates ETF invests in dividend stocks that should profit from rising rates. It is better than the S&P 500 regarding valuation and quality metrics.

FDRR: Designed For Inflation And Still Unconvincing

The Fidelity Dividend ETF for Rising Rates claims to select stocks that can provide protection during a rising rate environment. However, the selection criteria is based on historical correlations between stock performance and treasury yields and is only given a 10% composite score weight.

FDRR: Complex Index Methodology And Poor Historical Performance

FDRR holds dividend-paying North American stocks with a positive correlation to 10-Year U.S. Treasury Yields. Fund expenses are 0.29%, and the ETF has $586 million in AUM. FDRR has outperformed SPY by about 3% YTD, and tends to be less volatile than the broader market. Top holdings include Apple, Microsoft, and Johnson & Johnson.

FDRR: A Dividend ETF Built For Rising Rates, But Should You Buy?

FDRR tracks the Fidelity Dividend Index for Rising Rates, which is supposed to represent the performance of the developed-world large- and mid-cap companies, including the U.S. FDRR's portfolio has changed since my note from July 2021. The article delves into its current iteration, paying due attention to factors.

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FDRR invests in dividend stocks with returns correlated to Treasury yields.

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First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Dividend ETF

WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Fund

Siren DIVCON Dividend Defender ETF

WisdomTree US Smallcap Quality Dividend Growth Fund

Global X SuperDividend US ETF

iShares U.S. Dividend & Buyback ETF

Amplify CWP Dividend & Option Income ETF

Invesco Dow Jones Industrial Average Dividend ETF

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WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund

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Each month, I give a broad overview of dividend and income-focused ETFs, selecting them from my growing database of about 750 funds. I've added a seventh category to this monthly series: risk management ETFs, bringing the total number of funds analyzed to 88.

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Overseeing around $475 million in AUM, FDRR is moderately priced, with its expense ratio of 0.29% being lower than the U.S. Equities asset class median of 0.38%. The fund offers a distribution yield marginally north of 2%, which is above the yield of SPY, but the drawback is its poor historical dividend growth.

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In the world of exchange traded funds, names can be deceiving. On first glance, the Fidelity Dividend ETF for Rising Rates (FDRR) is one of them.

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