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Real estate stocks outperform broader markets in January
Seeking Alpha News (Sat, 31-Jan 12:00 PM ET)
Dimensional US Real Estate ETF implements an integrated investment approach that combines research, portfolio design, portfolio management, and trading functions. The Portfolio invests in invest in equity securities of companies whose principal activities include ownership, management, development, construction, or sale of residential, commercial or industrial real estate, certain real estate investment trusts ("REITs") and companies engaged in residential construction and firms, except partnerships, whose principal business is to develop commercial property. The Portfolio invests in companies of all sizes. The Portfolio generally considers a company to be principally engaged in the real estate industry if the company (i) derives at least 50% of its revenue or profits from the ownership, management, development, construction, or sale of residential, commercial, industrial, or other real estate (ii) has at least 50% of the value of its assets invested in residential, commercial, industrial, or other real estate or (iii) is organized as a REIT or REIT-like entity. REITs and REIT-like entities are types of real estate companies that pool investors' funds for investment primarily in income producing real estate or real estate related loans or interests.
Dimensional US Real Estate ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol DFAR.
As of February 5, 2026, DFAR stock price declined to $23.60 with 287,943 million shares trading.
DFAR has a beta of 0.40, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. DFAR has a correlation of 0.24 to the broad based SPY ETF.
DFAR has a market cap of $1.52 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, DFAR traded as high as $26.12 and as low as $18.31.
DFAR has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +3.9%, while SPY returned +13.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in DFAR shares. However, DFAR has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +2.8% and 0.0%, while SPY returned +0.5% and -1.3%, respectively. This indicates DFAR has been having a stronger performance recently.
DFAR support price is $23.49 and resistance is $23.94 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that DFAR shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
