Are Institutional Investors Becoming Impatient With Dividend ETFs?

The stampeding stock bull has hushed the naysayers. Pullbacks have been short-lived. And popular benchmarks like the S&P 500, the Dow as well as the Nasdaq have nearly gone vertical. Equally intriguing, some advisors appear to be abandoning their asset allocation. Consider the case of the $5.3 billion dollar SPDR S&P Dividend Fund (SDY). On Tuesday, February 1, anxious institutional investors dumped more than $316,000 worth of shares in block trading on 8x the normal trading volume.... Read more

SDY

Latest Price: $ 153.96

Dividend Yield (TTM): 2.45%

  • 2025-12-22: $ 1.02
  • 2026-03-23: $ 0.87
  • 2026-06-22: $ 0.97
  • 2026-09-21: $ 0.92
Source: Yahoo Finance. Stock prices and dividends can be delayed, cached or incomplete.
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