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One of our readers told us she would like to know what the best low-cost ETF’s are. So we started looking and were not sure how to go about it. In the end, we decided to use the 50 best ETF’s on US markets in the past year that had a maximum expense ratio of .20%. Obviously, this list comes after an incredible stock rally with almost all indexes gaining double digits.
Some of you might be surprised to see that no leveraged ETF’s were among the top 50. That would not be because of their performance but rather because in general the expense ratios of leveraged ETF’s are considerably higher.
Also a sidenote, some of these ETF’s have an expense ratio of 0%. While that is technically true, I will explain tomorrow how these fees can be presented in a misleading way. The ETF’s presented here all belong here from what I could see. But permitting ETF’s to present their fees in such a way can be a bit misleading. I will get into that tomorrow.
So here we go, here is the top 50!
Ticker Name CUR_MKT_CAP(M) Price 1Y Ret Ret YTD Fees
VNQ Vanguard REIT ETF 5523.695 48.67 98.19 7.219 0.12
VBR Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF 1496.493 59.49 88.204 8.829 0.11
RKH Regional Bank HOLDRs Trust 181.4033 85.1 86.573 10.914 0
VB Vanguard Small-Cap ETF 3143.904 62.561 84.357 8.753 0.1
VBK Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF 1360.399 65.1 80.847 8.485 0.11
HHH Internet HOLDRs Trust 140.8905 60.05 78.252 2.326 0
VXF Vanguard Extended Market ETF 884.3387 46.63 76.911 7.919 0.08
OIH Oil Services Holders Trust 2096.315 126.76 76.608 6.095 0
IWR iShares Russell Midcap Index Fund 5427.055 88.77 75.183 6.884 0.2
IJR iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index Fund 5841.99 59.34 75.054 8.224 0.2
VO Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF 2482.474 64.56 74.573 6.956 0.12
IJH iShares S&P MidCap 400 Index Fund 7453.59 78.62 73.868 7.969 0.2
IWM iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund 13206.83 67.64 73.726 8.088 0.2
IAH Internet Architecture HOLDRs Trust 49.48956 51.6 70.987 2.417 0
QQQQ Powershares QQQ 19639.51 47.39 65.292 3.257 0.2
VGK Vanguard European ETF 2649.229 48.03 65.261 -2.001 0.16
VEA Vanguard Europe Pacific ETF 4558.947 34.42 63.955 0 0.15
IVE iShares S&P 500 Value Index Fund 3938.155 55.91 60.561 4.924 0.18
VPL Vanguard Pacific ETF 1410.716 53.96 59.926 4.482 0.16
IWD iShares Russell 1000 Value Index Fund 9270.169 60.52 59.319 4.878 0.2
VTI Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF 14314.77 59.09 59.016 4.4 0.07
ELG SPDR Dow Jones Large Cap Growth ETF 197.2036 51.33 58.633 3.492 0.2
IWV iShares Russell 3000 Index Fund 3035.184 68.34 58.208 4.213 0.2
IYY iShares Dow Jones US Index Fund 596.3782 57.8934 57.895 4.08 0.2
ISI iShares S&P 1500 Index Fund 317.2015 52.47 57.413 4.128 0.2
VTV Vanguard Value ETF 3451.523 49.96 57.337 4.126 0.1
IWB iShares Russell 1000 Index Fund 5280.825 64.01 57.317 3.963 0.15
VV Vanguard Large-Cap ETF 2584.152 52.83 56.332 3.769 0.07
VUG Vanguard Growth ETF 4168.923 55.112 55.427 3.6 0.1
IVV iShares S&P 500 Index Fund/US 22920.95 116.34 55.346 3.64 0.09
SWH Software HOLDRs Trust 72.7623 42.09 55.325 0.432 0
SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 72165.63 115.95 55.312 3.634 0.0945
IWF iShares Russell 1000 Growth Index Fund 11408.95 51.53 55.22 3.129 0.2
JKD iShares Morningstar Large Core Index Fund 262.3622 66.5068 53.671 3.314 0.2
BHH B2B Internet HOLDRs Trust 2.10128 0.47 53.653 2.251 0
MGK Vanguard Mega Cap 300 Growth ETF 320.0263 43.33 53.378 2.89 0.13
MGC Vanguard Mega Cap 300 ETF 235.056 39.93 52.904 3.065 0.13
MGV Vanguard Mega Cap 300 Value ETF 211.4825 36.43 52.405 3.362 0.13
IIH Internet Infrastructure HOLDRs Trust 10.11872 3.0454 52.181 16.858 0
DIA SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust 8413.977 106.73 51.492 2.663 0.17
IVW iShares S&P 500 Growth Index Fund 5656.643 59.47 50.791 2.293 0.18
OEF iShares S&P 100 Index Fund 2660.811 53.1 49.62 2.838 0.2
SMH Semiconductor HOLDRs Trust 738.9135 27.56 49.247 -3.415 0
RTH Retail HOLDRs Trust 356.9172 99.87 48.675 6.611 0
XLG Rydex Russell Top 50 ETF 346.3561 85.71 45.861 1.986 0.2
NY iShares NYSE 100 Index Fund 70.9385 56.76 44.899 3.215 0.2
MKH Market 2000 HOLDRs Trust 21.43209 48.8425 38.127 -1.106 0
WMH Wireless HOLDRs Trust 22.88913 46.25 34.517 -2.797 0
PPH Pharmaceutical HOLDRs Trust 646.7308 66.1099 34.493 1.182 0
BDH Broadband HOLDRs Trust 16.86915 11.422 30.054 -9.783 0
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Good post. Looking forward you next post. I’m curious about the zero-fee ETFs…
Interesting. iShares certainly offers a lot of low fee ETFs. Despite the fact that there was a lot of expectation for positive returns after we slowly climbed out of the financial collapse, there’s some pretty solid returns on this list! Nice post
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@Frank & The Rat – Glad you like it. Yes, I also like to see as much who is “sponsoring or prodducing” (Ishares, etc) the top ETF’s and Ishares has been solid. But I would say that Vanguard is climbing up very fast