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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 April 8, 2026, QDEF stock price climbed to $81.80 with 1,973 million shares trading.
QDEF has a market cap of $505.12 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, QDEF traded as high as $84.60 and as low as $52.35.
QDEF has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +30.9% while the SPY ETF gained +35.4%. However, in the short term, QDEF had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +0.7% vs -1.8% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, QDEF shares have been beat by the market, returning +2.9% compared to an SPY return of +3.4%.
QDEF support price is $79.78 and resistance is $81.25 (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 shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
