5 Dividend ETFs Beating the S&P 500 This Year

Five dividend ETFs -- DFJ, SCHD, FDL, HDV and EYLD -- have outpaced SPY in 2026 as investors rotate toward quality income plays.

Zacks Investment Research • Feb 20, 2026

EYLD: Emerging Markets ETF With Compelling Dividend, Value, And Return

Cambria Emerging Shareholder Yield ETF offers a quantitative, value-oriented approach to emerging markets with diversified equal-weight allocation. EYLD has outperformed EEM since inception and key competitors since 2019, despite recent underperformance. The ETF exhibits strong value characteristics compared to EEM while maintaining comparable earnings growth.

Seeking Alpha • Dec 28, 2025

EYLD: Deep Value Outweighs Geopolitical Risks

The Cambria Emerging Shareholder Yield ETF offers value-focused exposure to emerging markets, emphasizing valuation, dividends, debt reduction, and cash flow. This ETF trades at a significant 35% discount to emerging markets, making it a compelling choice for value investors. Its approach is differentiated by being underweight tech and overweight markets like South Korea and Taiwan, driving recent outperformance.

Seeking Alpha • Aug 25, 2025

Cambria Emerging Shareholder Yield: Great ETF Idea With One Significant Drawback

The Cambria Emerging Shareholder Yield ETF offers a unique portfolio of hard-to-access emerging market equities. EYLD's strategy focuses on shareholder yield. It emphasizes dividends, share repurchases, and debt pay-down, which should lead to strong returns over time. Despite its attractive valuation metrics, EYLD's significant exposure to China and Taiwan presents geopolitical risks that investors should consider.

Seeking Alpha • May 4, 2025

Cambria Launches Cambria Fixed Income Trend ETF (CFIT)

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $EYLD #ShareholderYield--Cambria Investment Management, an independent, privately owned investment advisory firm and ETF provider focused on quantitative asset management and alternative investments, today announced that the Cambria Fixed Income Trend ETF (CFIT) has begun trading on the CBOE BZX Exchange. CFIT uses a quantitative approach to analyze global bond market segments, systematically identifying opportunities exhibiting upward price trends. By seeking to selectively in.

Business Wire • Mar 28, 2025

Meb Faber And Kirk Spano Talk Shareholder Yield And ETF Opportunities

Meb Faber talks to Kirk Spano about shareholder yield, ETFs, and what tends to happen at the end of secular booms. A slightly less strong USD and foreign and emerging markets.

Seeking Alpha • Feb 25, 2025

Cambria and ETF Architect Launch Cambria Tax Aware ETF (TAX) with $27 Million

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $EYLD #ShareholderYield--Cambria Investment Management, a leading quantitative asset management firm, and ETF Architect, a leading partner with fund managers launching ETFs, today announced that the Cambria Tax Aware ETF (TAX) has begun trading on NASDAQ. TAX will focus on U.S. stocks with value and quality characteristics and low or no dividend yields. By strategically managing its holdings, the ETF aims to generate capital appreciation without distributing high dividend incom.

Business Wire • Dec 18, 2024

Cambria Launches Cambria Large Cap Shareholder Yield ETF

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $EYLD #ShareholderYield--Cambria Investment Management, an independent, privately owned investment advisory firm and ETF provider focused on quantitative asset management and alternative investments, today announced the launch the Cambria Large Cap Shareholder Yield ETF (LYLD). “The Cambria Large Cap Shareholder Yield ETF invests in large cap U.S. stocks, applying the same systematic, quantitative methodology as the rest of Cambria's shareholder yield lineup,” said Meb Faber, c.

Business Wire • Jul 12, 2024

5 Top-Performing High-Dividend ETFs of 1H 2024

Wall Street closed out the first half of 2024 at record highs, with expectations of further gains.

Zacks Investment Research • Jul 2, 2024

EYLD: Fine Emerging Markets ETF With A Geopolitical Issue

Cambria Emerging Shareholder Yield ETF is an actively managed ETF focusing on shareholder yield and value in emerging markets. EYLD is well-diversified across sectors and holdings but has considerable exposure to risks related to China (over 50% of assets). The Fund looks better than an Emerging Markets benchmark based on fundamentals and performance, and it has outperformed a number of competitors.

Seeking Alpha • Jun 13, 2024