DES

WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Fund (DES) - $0.0200.30-Day SEC Yield of 2.22% as of April. 26.Payable Apr 29; for shareholders of record Apr 27; ex-div Apr 26.

Todays market close, closes out the month of trading for February 2021. The S&P 500 finished up 2.91% for the month. A lot of talk has been about yesterdays selloff

WisdomTree SmallCap Dividend ETF (DES) declares $0.13/share monthly dividend, 100% increase from prior dividend of $0.07.Forward yield 5.97%Payable Dec. 24; for shareholders of record Dec. 22; ex-div Dec. 21.See DES

These are go-go days for small-cap stocks and the related exchange-traded funds. The widely followed Russell 2000 Index jumped 18.29% in November, good for its best monthly performance on record.

WisdomTree SmallCap Dividend ETF (DES) declares $0.06/share monthly dividend, 33.3% increase from prior dividend of $0.04.Forward yield 3.34%Payable Oct. 30; for shareholders of record Oct. 28; ex-div Oct. 27.See DES

DES tracks the WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Index that includes the bottom 25% of stocks from the DI and is reconstituted annually.With 638 holdings, DES is much more diversified than DLN and DON, which have 279 and 332 holdings, respectively. Only seven stocks have a weight greater than 1%.The fund has an appealing standardized yield of 4.2%.Though the fund is overweight in the financial sector that has questionable upside, its significant exposure to industrials is supportive of short-term price gains.

Assets in U.S. dividend exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have grown exponentially over the past decade. In 2009, America's dividend ETFs collectively held less than $20 billion. By September 2019, they had shot up to almost $200 billion.In good times and bad, ...