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ALPS | OShares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF
ALPS ETF TRUST
ETFIndex fund
Expense ratio1
0.48%
Net assets2
$935.61M
Holdings2
111
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
2.16%

Investment objective & strategy

As of March 30, 2026 · prospectus

Objective. The Fund seeks to track the performance (before fees and expenses) of the OShares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend Index (the Underlying Index).

Strategy. The Fund will seek investment results that replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index is designed to reflect the performance of publicly-listed small-capitalization dividend-paying issuers in the United States that meet certain market capitalization, liquidity, high quality, low volatility and dividend yield thresholds, as determined by OShares Investment Advisers, LLC (the Index Provider). The high quality and low volatility factors are designed to reduce exposure to high dividend equities that have experienced large price declines, as may occur with some dividend investing strategies. The constituents of the Underlying Index are selected from the S-Network US Equity Mid/Small-Cap 2500 Index. As of December 31, 2025, the Underlying Index consisted of … The Fund will seek investment results that replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index is designed to reflect the performance of publicly-listed small-capitalization dividend-paying issuers in the United States that meet certain market capitalization, liquidity, high quality, low volatility and dividend yield thresholds, as determined by OShares Investment Advisers, LLC (the Index Provider). The high quality and low volatility factors are designed to reduce exposure to high dividend equities that have experienced large price declines, as may occur with some dividend investing strategies. The constituents of the Underlying Index are selected from the S-Network US Equity Mid/Small-Cap 2500 Index. As of December 31, 2025, the Underlying Index consisted of 110 securities with a market capitalization range of between $412 million and $22.34 billion. The Underlying Index is constructed using a proprietary, rules-based methodology designed to select equity securities from the S-Network US Equity Mid/Small-Cap 2500 Index that have exposure to the following four factors: 1) quality, 2) low volatility, 3) dividend yield and 4) dividend quality. The quality factor is calculated by combining measures of profitability and leverage with the objective of identifying companies with strong profitability and balance sheets. The low volatility factor measures the risk of price moves for a security with the objective of reducing allocations to riskier companies. The dividend yield factor measures the income generated by an investment with the objective of identifying companies with higher dividend yields. The dividend quality factor measures the income available to a company to pay dividends to common shareholders together with the growth of a companys dividends over time, with the objective of identifying companies with less risk of dividend cuts or suspensions. Each company in the S-Network US Equity Mid/Small-Cap 2500 Index is weighted based on: (i) the companys market capitalization weight in the S-Network US Equity Mid/Small-Cap 2500 Index, as adjusted by (ii) the quality, low volatility, dividend yield and dividend quality factors, with the quality and low volatility factors receiving greater emphasis. The inclusion of each company is then subject to certain constraints (e.g., diversification, capacity and sector) prior to adjusting the final weights in the Underlying Index. The diversification constraint limits maximum position weights. All stocks included in the S-Network US Equity Mid/Small-Cap 2500 Index are screened for free float (the number of shares readily available for purchase on the open market) and average daily trading volume. The sector constraints limit sector deviations. The Underlying Index is rebalanced quarterly and reconstituted annually. Individual index constituent weights are capped at 2% at each quarterly rebalance to avoid overexposure to any single security. The Underlying Indexs investable universe includes companies from the following GICS sectors within the S-Network US Equity Mid/Small-Cap 2500 Index: Communication Services, Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Financials, Health Care, Industrials, Information Technology, and Utilities. The Fund may use either a replication strategy or representative sampling strategy in seeking to track the performance of the Underlying Index. Under a replication strategy, the Fund intends to replicate the constituent securities of the Underlying Index as closely as possible. Under a representative sampling strategy, the Fund would invest in what it believes to be a representative sample of the component securities of the Underlying Index. The Fund may use a representative sampling strategy when a replication strategy might be detrimental to shareholders, such as when there are practical difficulties or substantial costs involved in compiling a portfolio of securities to follow the Underlying Index (e.g., where the Underlying Index contains component securities too numerous to efficiently purchase or sell); or, in certain instances, when a component security of the Underlying Index becomes temporarily illiquid, unavailable or less liquid. The Fund may also use a representative sampling strategy to exclude less liquid component securities contained in the Underlying Index from the Funds portfolio in order to create a more tradable portfolio and improve arbitrage opportunities. To the extent the Fund uses a representative sampling strategy, it may not track the Underlying Index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in the components of the Underlying Index. The Fund considers the companies included in the Underlying Index to be small capitalization companies. To the extent that the Underlying Index concentrates (i.e., holds 25% or more of its net assets) in the securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund is expected to concentrate to approximately the same extent. As of December 31, 2025, the Underlying Index was concentrated in the financials and industrials sectors. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in investments not included in the Underlying Index, but which ALPS Advisors, Inc. (the Adviser) believes will help the Fund track the Underlying Index. For example, there may be instances in which the Adviser may choose to purchase or sell investments, including exchange-traded funds (ETF) and other investment company securities, and cash and cash equivalents, as substitutes for one or more Underlying Index components or in anticipation of changes in the Underlying Indexs components.

Top holdings

As of Feb. 28, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
NATL HEALTHCARE $26.43M 2.83%
ROYALTY PHARMA-A $23.51M 2.51%
AVNET INC $22.72M 2.43%
LINCOLN ELECTRIC HLDGS INC $22.07M 2.36%
DONALDSON CO INC $21.19M 2.27%
WESTERN UNION CO $20.88M 2.23%
TEXAS ROADHOUSE INC $20.39M 2.18%
NEW YORK TIMES CO CL A $19.71M 2.11%
SMITH (AO) CORP $19.60M 2.09%
ALLISON TRANSMISSION HLDGS INC $19.27M 2.06%
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Allocation by sector

As of February 28, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Nov 30, 2025 → Feb 28, 2026
Opened
0
Exited
1
Increased
0
Decreased
111
Unchanged
1

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of November 30, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
ALPS Advisors, Inc. Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of March 30, 2026, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of February 28, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. As reported in the fund's prospectus performance bar chart.

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