QDEF Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Flexshares Quality Dividend Defensive | ARCA:QDEF)

QDEF seeks to provide exposure to the long-term growth potential of U.S. securities while providing dividend payments. It is intended as a core stock market option that also helps investors try to meet their income needs. The strategy applies a proprietary scoring model approach that determines a "quality factor" and an optimization process that seeks to maximize this factor, target a beta lower than the Parent Index (Northern Trust 1250) and improve on the Parent Indexs dividend yiel

Flexshares Quality Dividend Defensive trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol QDEF.

As of May 10, 2024, QDEF stock price climbed to $63.69 with 5,157 million shares trading.

QDEF has a market cap of $361.43 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, QDEF stock traded as high as $64.29 and as low as $45.30.

QDEF stock has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +21.1%, while SPY returned +27.8%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in QDEF shares. However, QDEF has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +4.3% and +3.1%, while SPY returned +4.2% and +2.5%, respectively. This indicates QDEF has been having a stronger performance recently.

QDEF support price is $62.93 and resistance is $63.89 (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 QDEF stock will trade within this expected range on the day.