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Northern Trust Quality Dividend Defensive ETF QDEF

Issuer: Northern Trust SEC registrant: FlexShares Trust Equity · US
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Last price 91.32 USD Change: Up +0.50 Percent change: Up +0.55%

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Observed · 1 day ago Quotes may be delayed

Net expense ratio
0.39%
Prospectus 1 Mar 2026
Net assets
$545.8M
As of 31 Jul 2026
Holdings
145
As of 31 Jul 2026
12-month distribution yield
1.56%
Quarterly
Asset class
Equity
From holdings

Northern Trust Quality Dividend Defensive ETF (QDEF) is an exchange-traded fund listed on NYSE Arca in the United States, issued by Northern Trust. Its category is Equity · US (equity). Its last price was US$91.32 on 20 Oct 2026. Its net expense ratio is 0.39% a year, from its prospectus dated 1 Mar 2026. It reported net assets of US$545.85 million as of 31 Jul 2026. Its latest holdings report lists 145 holdings as of 31 Jul 2026. Over the last 12 months it paid distributions of US$1.42 a unit, a 12-month distribution yield of 1.56%, paid quarterly.

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Fees

Total annual operating expenses (gross)
0.40%
Net, after fee waivers or reimbursements
0.39%
Management fee
0.37%
Prospectus date
1 Mar 2026
Filed with the SEC
25 Feb 2026

Source: SEC prospectus risk/return data sets (opens in a new tab) Filed

Size and reporting

Net assets
$545,849,066
Total assets
$567,744,699
Holdings as of
31 Jul 2026
Report made public
25 Sep 2026 (56 days after the month end)

Net assets are for the whole fund series, which for some funds (Vanguard's, for example) also includes mutual fund share classes.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Filed

Top holdings

Largest 25 of 145 positions, as of 31 Jul 2026. Weight is the percent of net assets the fund reported.

QDEF top holdings as of 31 Jul 2026
# Holding Identifier Weight Value (USD) Type Country Currency
1 Apple, Inc. US0378331005 8.31% $45.4M Equity (common) United States USD
2 NVIDIA Corp. US67066G1040 6.40% $34.9M Equity (common) United States USD
3 Broadcom, Inc. US11135F1012 4.67% $25.5M Equity (common) United States USD
4 Microsoft Corp. US5949181045 4.04% $22.1M Equity (common) United States USD
5 AbbVie, Inc. US00287Y1091 3.03% $16.5M Equity (common) United States USD
6 Johnson & Johnson US4781601046 2.76% $15.1M Equity (common) United States USD
7 Alphabet, Inc. Alphabet, Inc., Class A US02079K3059 2.44% $13.3M Equity (common) United States USD
8 Procter & Gamble Co. (The) US7427181091 2.34% $12.8M Equity (common) United States USD
9 Cisco Systems, Inc. US17275R1023 2.27% $12.4M Equity (common) United States USD
10 CF SECURED LLC Treasury Repurchase Agreement No identifier reported 2.17% $11.8M Repurchase agreements United States USD
11 JPMorgan Chase & Co. US46625H1005 2.11% $11.5M Equity (common) United States USD
12 Philip Morris International, Inc. US7181721090 2.07% $11.3M Equity (common) United States USD
13 Alphabet, Inc. Alphabet, Inc., Class C US02079K1079 1.98% $10.8M Equity (common) United States USD
14 KLA Corp. US4824801009 1.69% $9.2M Equity (common) United States USD
15 Lam Research Corp. US5128073062 1.36% $7.4M Equity (common) United States USD
16 TJX Cos., Inc. (The) US8725401090 1.22% $6.7M Equity (common) United States USD
17 QUALCOMM, Inc. US7475251036 1.11% $6.1M Equity (common) United States USD
18 Gilead Sciences, Inc. US3755581036 1.07% $5.8M Equity (common) United States USD
19 ConocoPhillips US20825C1045 1.06% $5.8M Equity (common) United States USD
20 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. US1101221083 0.93% $5.1M Equity (common) United States USD
21 NATIONAL BK OF CANADA FINANCIAL INC Other Repurchase Agreement No identifier reported 0.92% $5.0M Repurchase agreements Canada USD
22 Lockheed Martin Corp. US5398301094 0.84% $4.6M Equity (common) United States USD
23 Eli Lilly & Co. US5324571083 0.83% $4.5M Equity (common) United States USD
24 Altria Group, Inc. US02209S1033 0.80% $4.4M Equity (common) United States USD
25 GE Vernova, Inc. US36828A1016 0.76% $4.1M Equity (common) United States USD

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Made public Holdings as of 31 Jul 2026

All 145 stored holdings

Breakdowns

Sums of reported weights over every position in the report. Totals can differ from 100% because of derivatives, borrowing and cash.

Asset type

Asset type by weight
TypeWeightBar
Equity (common) 99.38%
Repurchase agreements 3.82%
Short-term investment vehicles (cash funds) 0.15%
Equity derivatives <0.01%

Country

Country by weight
CountryWeightBar
United States 99.03%
Canada 1.79%
Ireland 1.66%
United Kingdom 0.41%
Guernsey 0.38%
Bermuda 0.07%

The country each issuer is assigned to in the report.

Currency exposure

Currency exposure by weight
CurrencyWeightBar
US dollar (USD) 103.34%

The currency each holding is denominated in. Currency hedges are not netted off, so a hedged fund still shows its holdings' currencies.

Sector

Sector weights for holdings matched to listed stocks
SectorWeightBar
Technology 35.51%
Health Care 13.55%
Consumer Discretionary 13.30%
Finance 10.89%
Industrials 4.70%
Real Estate 3.85%
Energy 3.69%
Telecommunications 3.12%
Utilities 2.81%
Basic Materials 1.60%
Consumer Staples 0.86%
Technology Services 0.56%
Consumer Cyclical 0.42%

Partial coverage: sectors are known for 94.9% of net assets (95% of the fund's equity weight), the holdings matched by CUSIP or ticker to US stocks listed on this site. The rest is not assigned a sector.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Holdings as of

Distributions

Paid in the last 12 months
$1.4220
4 payments per unit
12-month yield
1.56%
Distributions only, not total return
Frequency
Quarterly
From the gaps between ex-dates
Latest ex-date
18 Sep 2026

12-month yield = distributions per unit with an ex-date in the last 12 months ($1.4220) ÷ latest price ($91.32) × 100 = 1.56%. It looks back, so it is not a forecast; special distributions in the window are included.

Why a distribution yield is not the fund's return: yield vs total return

Distribution history table (20 payments)
QDEF distributions per unit by ex-date
Ex-dateAmount per unit
18 Sep 2026$0.3380
18 Jun 2026$0.3420
20 Mar 2026$0.2010
19 Dec 2025$0.5410
19 Sep 2025$0.3180
20 Jun 2025$0.3370
21 Mar 2025$0.2120
20 Dec 2024$0.4460
20 Sep 2024$0.3310
21 Jun 2024$0.3420
15 Mar 2024$0.1830
15 Dec 2023$0.4600
15 Sep 2023$0.2700
16 Jun 2023$0.3820
17 Mar 2023$0.1950
16 Dec 2022$0.3940
16 Sep 2022$0.3190
17 Jun 2022$0.3230
18 Mar 2022$0.2090
17 Dec 2021$0.3570

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Checked · 2 days ago Amounts are adjusted for later unit splits

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