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Schwab Fundamental International Small Company Index ETF

ETF
FNDC
Payout Change
Pending
Price as of:
$34.04 +0.12 +0.35%
primary theme
International Mid-Cap Value Equity
FNDC (ETF)

Schwab Fundamental International Small Company Index ETF

Payout Change
Pending
Price as of:
$34.04 +0.12 +0.35%
primary theme
International Mid-Cap Value Equity
FNDC (ETF)

Schwab Fundamental International Small Company Index ETF

Payout Change
Pending
Price as of:
$34.04 +0.12 +0.35%
primary theme
International Mid-Cap Value Equity

Name

As of 12/20/2024

Price

Aum/Mkt Cap

YIELD

Annualized forward dividend yield. Multiplies the most recent dividend payout amount by its frequency and divides by the previous close price.

Exp Ratio

Expense ratio is the fund’s total annual operating expenses, including management fees, distribution fees, and other expenses, expressed as a percentage of average net assets.

Watchlist

$34.04

$3.17 B

5.71%

$1.94

0.39%

Vitals

YTD Return

1.1%

1 yr return

2.4%

3 Yr Avg Return

0.5%

5 Yr Avg Return

3.2%

Net Assets

$3.17 B

Holdings in Top 10

3.8%

52 WEEK LOW AND HIGH

$33.9
$33.21
$38.50

Expenses

OPERATING FEES

Expense Ratio 0.39%

SALES FEES

Front Load N/A

Deferred Load N/A

TRADING FEES

Turnover 28.00%

Redemption Fee N/A


Min Investment

Standard (Taxable)

N/A

IRA

N/A


Fund Classification

Fund Type

Exchange Traded Fund


Name

As of 12/20/2024

Price

Aum/Mkt Cap

YIELD

Annualized forward dividend yield. Multiplies the most recent dividend payout amount by its frequency and divides by the previous close price.

Exp Ratio

Expense ratio is the fund’s total annual operating expenses, including management fees, distribution fees, and other expenses, expressed as a percentage of average net assets.

Watchlist

$34.04

$3.17 B

5.71%

$1.94

0.39%

FNDC - Profile

Distributions

  • YTD Total Return 1.1%
  • 3 Yr Annualized Total Return 0.5%
  • 5 Yr Annualized Total Return 3.2%
  • Capital Gain Distribution Frequency N/A
  • Net Income Ratio 1.90%
DIVIDENDS
  • Dividend Yield 5.7%
  • Dividend Distribution Frequency None

Fund Details

  • Legal Name
    Schwab Fundamental International Small Company Index ETF
  • Fund Family Name
    SCHFLFSETF
  • Inception Date
    Aug 15, 2013
  • Shares Outstanding
    78800000
  • Share Class
    N/A
  • Currency
    USD
  • Domiciled Country
    US
  • Manager
    Chuck Craig

Fund Description

To pursue its goal, the fund generally invests in stocks that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Small Index. The index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the small company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the developed ex U.S. companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the developed ex U.S. companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the smallest developed ex U.S. companies by fundamental size. The bottom 12.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.
It is the fund’s policy that, under normal circumstances, it will invest at least 90% of its net assets (including, for this purpose, any borrowings for investment purposes) in stocks included in the index, including depositary receipts representing securities of the index; which may be in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) and European Depositary Receipts (EDRs). The fund will notify its shareholders at least 60 days before changing this policy. The fund may sell securities that are represented in the index in anticipation of their removal from the index, or buy securities that are not yet represented in the index in anticipation of their addition to the index. The fund does not hedge its exposure to foreign currencies. However, the fund may use forward contracts to lock in exchange rates for the portfolio securities purchased or sold, but awaiting settlement. These transactions establish a rate of exchange that can be expected to be received upon settlement of the securities.
Under normal circumstances, the fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in securities not included in the index. The principal types of these investments include, but are not limited to, those that the investment adviser believes will help the fund track the index, such as
Index ownership — The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Small Index (the Index) is a service mark of RAFI Indices, LLC or its affiliates (collectively, RAFI) and has been licensed for use by Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. The intellectual and other property rights to the Index are owned by or licensed to RAFI. The Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by RAFI, its agents or service providers (collectively, the RAFI Parties). The RAFI Parties: (i) make no representation or warranty as to the results to be obtained from the use of the Index or otherwise; and (ii) shall not be liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index. For full disclaimer, please see the fund’s statement of additional information.
investments in (a) securities that are not represented in the index but the investment adviser anticipates will be added to the index or as necessary to reflect various corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), (b) other investment companies, and (c) derivatives, principally futures contracts. The fund may use futures contracts and other derivatives primarily to seek returns on the fund’s otherwise uninvested cash assets to help it better track the index. The fund may also invest in cash and cash equivalents, including money market funds, and may lend its securities to minimize the difference in performance that naturally exists between an index fund and its corresponding index.
Because it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of the stocks in the index, the investment adviser seeks to track the total return of the index by using sampling techniques. Sampling techniques involve investing in a limited number of index securities which, when taken together, are expected to perform similarly to the index as a whole. These techniques are based on a variety of factors, including performance attributes, tax considerations, capitalization, dividend yield, price/earnings ratio, industry factors, risk factors and other characteristics. The fund generally expects that its portfolio will hold less than the total number of securities in the index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the fund’s investment objective. The fund generally expects that its portfolio characteristics will be similar to those of the index.
The investment adviser seeks to achieve, over time, a correlation between the fund’s performance and that of the index, before fees and expenses, of 95% or better. However, there can be no guarantee that the fund will achieve a high degree of correlation with the index. A number of factors may affect the fund’s ability to achieve a high correlation with the index, including the number of index securities held by the fund as part of the sampling techniques. The correlation between the performance of the fund and the index may also diverge due to transaction costs, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances, and differences between the fund’s portfolio and the index resulting from legal restrictions (such as diversification requirements) that apply to the fund but not to the index.
The fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold more than 25% of its total assets) in a particular industry, group of industries or sector to approximately the same extent that the index is so concentrated.
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FNDC - Performance

Return Ranking - Trailing

Period FNDC Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
YTD 1.1% -6.4% 23.8% 75.93%
1 Yr 2.4% -4.5% 24.7% 70.37%
3 Yr 0.5%* -0.9% 17.8% 84.31%
5 Yr 3.2%* 1.5% 19.9% 87.76%
10 Yr 5.2%* 4.0% 8.8% 64.00%

* Annualized

Return Ranking - Calendar

Period FNDC Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
2023 11.5% -5.4% 35.2% 69.81%
2022 -16.4% -22.7% 5.8% 58.82%
2021 7.5% -5.7% 19.7% 68.63%
2020 4.6% -10.7% 30.9% 30.61%
2019 17.3% 2.1% 31.6% 26.67%

Total Return Ranking - Trailing

Period FNDC Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
YTD 1.1% -6.4% 23.8% 75.93%
1 Yr 2.4% -4.5% 24.7% 70.37%
3 Yr 0.5%* -0.9% 17.8% 84.31%
5 Yr 3.2%* 1.5% 19.9% 87.76%
10 Yr 5.2%* 4.0% 8.8% 64.00%

* Annualized

Total Return Ranking - Calendar

Period FNDC Return Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
2023 14.9% 3.2% 40.0% 75.47%
2022 -14.7% -22.3% 6.4% 68.63%
2021 10.3% 9.0% 77.0% 94.12%
2020 6.6% -10.3% 37.2% 34.69%
2019 20.6% 8.6% 31.9% 42.22%

FNDC - Holdings

Concentration Analysis

FNDC Category Low Category High FNDC % Rank
Net Assets 3.17 B 6.24 M 10.9 B 7.41%
Number of Holdings 1995 10 5116 7.41%
Net Assets in Top 10 127 M 569 K 3.34 B 35.19%
Weighting of Top 10 3.83% 2.8% 104.2% 98.15%

Top 10 Holdings

  1. State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund 1.58%
  2. DSM-Firmenich AG 0.46%
  3. HD Korea Shipbuilding Offshore Engineering Co Ltd 0.25%
  4. Celestica Inc 0.24%
  5. Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 0.24%
  6. Novonesis (Novozymes) B 0.24%
  7. Asics Corp 0.21%
  8. Hokkaido Electric Power Co Inc 0.21%
  9. Toho Holdings Co Ltd 0.20%
  10. Meritz Financial Group Inc 0.19%

Asset Allocation

Weighting Return Low Return High FNDC % Rank
Stocks
99.44% 83.96% 101.35% 27.78%
Cash
1.66% 0.00% 17.59% 62.96%
Preferred Stocks
0.15% 0.00% 4.76% 44.44%
Other
0.01% -0.32% 5.79% 22.22%
Convertible Bonds
0.00% 0.00% 0.41% 36.54%
Bonds
0.00% 0.00% 11.41% 33.33%

Stock Sector Breakdown

Weighting Return Low Return High FNDC % Rank
Industrials
24.89% 5.36% 31.52% 23.08%
Consumer Cyclical
14.64% 4.00% 24.14% 9.62%
Financial Services
11.75% 3.05% 32.74% 71.15%
Basic Materials
9.76% 1.74% 28.84% 61.54%
Technology
7.08% 0.00% 18.01% 59.62%
Consumer Defense
6.94% 3.45% 18.05% 38.46%
Real Estate
6.72% 0.00% 16.01% 42.31%
Energy
6.19% 0.00% 19.25% 48.08%
Healthcare
4.79% 0.00% 9.89% 44.23%
Communication Services
4.58% 0.00% 8.94% 38.46%
Utilities
2.66% 0.00% 15.19% 30.77%

Stock Geographic Breakdown

Weighting Return Low Return High FNDC % Rank
Non US
99.01% 0.00% 99.47% 18.52%
US
0.42% 0.00% 99.94% 87.04%

FNDC - Expenses

Operational Fees

FNDC Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Expense Ratio 0.39% 0.34% 4.26% 92.59%
Management Fee 0.39% 0.30% 1.05% 7.41%
12b-1 Fee N/A 0.00% 0.75% N/A
Administrative Fee N/A 0.01% 0.15% N/A

Sales Fees

FNDC Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Front Load N/A 5.75% 5.75% N/A
Deferred Load N/A 1.00% 1.00% N/A

Trading Fees

FNDC Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Max Redemption Fee N/A N/A N/A N/A

Related Fees

Turnover provides investors a proxy for the trading fees incurred by mutual fund managers who frequently adjust position allocations. Higher turnover means higher trading fees.

FNDC Fees (% of AUM) Category Return Low Category Return High Rank in Category (%)
Turnover 28.00% 2.00% 119.00% 35.42%

FNDC - Distributions

Dividend Yield Analysis

FNDC Category Low Category High FNDC % Rank
Dividend Yield 5.71% 0.00% 8.78% 57.41%

Dividend Distribution Analysis

FNDC Category Low Category High Category Mod
Dividend Distribution Frequency None Annual SemiAnnual Annual

Net Income Ratio Analysis

FNDC Category Low Category High FNDC % Rank
Net Income Ratio 1.90% -0.10% 4.33% 34.62%

Capital Gain Distribution Analysis

FNDC Category Low Category High Capital Mode
Capital Gain Distribution Frequency Annually Annually Annually

Distributions History

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FNDC - Fund Manager Analysis

Managers

Chuck Craig


Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Aug 15, 2013

8.8

8.8%

Chuck Craig, CFA, is s Senior Portfolio Manager for Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. Prior to joining CSIM in 2012, Mr. Craig worked at Guggenheim Funds (formerly Claymore Group), where he spent over five years as a managing director of portfolio management & supervision, and three years as vice president of product research and development. Prior to that, he worked as an equity research analyst at First Trust Portfolios (formerly Niké Securities), and a trader and analyst at PMA Securities, Inc.

Jane Qin


Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Aug 15, 2013

8.8

8.8%

Jane Qin, Portfolio Manage. joined Charles Schwab Investment Management in 2012. Prior to joining CSIM, Ms. Qin spent more than four years at The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. During that time, Ms. Qin spent more than two years as an associate equity portfolio manager and nearly two years as a performance analyst. She also worked at Wells Fargo Funds Management as a mutual fund analyst and at CIGNA Reinsurance in Risk Management group as a risk analyst.

Christopher Bliss


Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Apr 26, 2017

5.1

5.1%

Christopher Bliss, CFA, Vice President and Head of the Passive Equity Team, leads the portfolio management team for Schwab’s Passive Equity Funds and ETFs. Prior to joining CSIM in 2016, Mr. Bliss spent twelve years at BlackRock (formerly Barclays Global Investors) managing and leading institutional index teams, most recently as a Managing Director and Head of Americas Institutional Index team. Prior to BlackRock, he worked as an equity analyst and portfolio manager for Harris Bretall and before that, as a research analyst for JP Morgan.

David Rios


Start Date

Tenure

Tenure Rank

Apr 26, 2017

5.1

5.1%

David Rios, Portfolio Manager, has joined Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. in 2008 and became a Portfolio Manager in September 2014. Prior to this role, Mr. Rios served as an Associate Portfolio Manager on the Passive Equity Strategies team for four years. His first role with CSIM was as a trade operation specialist. He also previously worked as a senior fund accountant at Investors Bank & Trust (subsequently acquired by State Street Corporation).

Tenure Analysis

Category Low Category High Category Average Category Mode
0.06 26.6 7.22 10.34