Northern Trust Quality Dividend ETF (QDF) closed at $90.47 on October 30, 2026, down 1.6% from the previous close, on volume of 20,041 shares (30-day average 24,655).
Data as of October 30, 2026.
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Northern Trust Quality Dividend ETF seeks investment results of the Northern Trust Quality Dividend Index. The Index is designed to reflect the 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 similar to that of the Northern Trust 1250 Index a float-adjusted market-capitalization weighted index of U.S. domiciled large and mid- capitalization companies. To derive the Underlying Index, NTI, acting in its capacity as 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. The core components of the proprietary quality scoring model are based on quantitative ranking. These scores have three components (i) management efficiency (ii) profitability(iii) cash flow. The Index Provider then uses an optimization process to select and weight eligible securities in order to (a) maximize the overall quality score relative to the Parent Index (b) attain an aggregate dividend yield in excess of the Parent Index (c) achieve the desired beta target.
Northern Trust Quality Dividend ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol QDF.
As of October 30, 2026, QDF stock price declined to $90.47 with 20,041 million shares trading.
QDF has a beta of 0.75, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. QDF has a correlation of 0.86 to the broad based SPY ETF.
QDF has a market cap of $2.18 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, QDF traded as high as $93.89 and as low as $53.69.
QDF has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +13.3% while the SPY ETF gained +11.0%. However, in the short term, QDF had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +0.8% vs +3.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, QDF shares have fared better than the market returning -1.1% compared to SPY -2.1%.
QDF support price is $91.42 and resistance is $92.44 (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 QDF shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
