Northern Trust Quality Dividend Defensive ETF (QDEF) closed at $91.54 on October 29, 2026, up 0.5% from the previous close, on volume of 8,590 shares (30-day average 7,661).
Data as of October 29, 2026.
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Northern Trust Quality Dividend Defensive ETF seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Northern Trust Quality Dividend Defensive Index. The Underlying Index is designed to reflect the performance of a selection of companies that, in aggregate, provide exposure to a high-quality income oriented universe of long only U.S. equity securities, with an emphasis on long-term capital growth and a targeted overall beta that is generally between 0.5 to 1.0 times that of the Northern Trust 1250 Index (the "Parent Index"), a float-adjusted market-capitalization weighted index of U.S. domiciled large- and mid-capitalization companies. Beta represents the market sensitivity, relative to a given market index and time period, and is one measure of volatility. To derive the Underlying Index, NTI, acting in its capacity as the index provider (the "Index Provider"), begins with all securities in the Parent Index and then removes those securities that rank in the lowest quintile of quality based on a proprietary scoring model, as well as those which do not pay a dividend.
Northern Trust Quality Dividend Defensive ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol QDEF.
As of October 29, 2026, QDEF stock price climbed to $91.54 with 8,590 million shares trading.
QDEF has a market cap of $556.11 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, QDEF traded as high as $91.97 and as low as $52.71.
QDEF has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +14.7% while the SPY ETF gained +13.1%. However, in the short term, QDEF had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +2.8% vs +4.1% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, QDEF shares have fared better than the market returning +0.9% compared to SPY 0.0%.
QDEF support price is $90.66 and resistance is $91.54 (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.
