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Best ETFs, by one figure at a time

Each list ranks the ETFs read here on a single stated figure: dividend yield, fee, five-year or one-year return, size, or the part of the fund in one sector or region. Leveraged and inverse funds are left out of all of them.

Highest-yielding dividend ETFs

Dividend-focused equity ETFs of at least $500 million, ranked by their yield.

Top three: DIV, FDD, FGD

S&P 500 ETFs by fee

Every fund here tracks the same five hundred companies, so what separates them is mostly the yearly fee.

Top three: VOO, IVV, SPY

Best-performing ETFs over five years

ETFs of at least $1 billion with five years of history, ranked by their average yearly total return over those five years.

Top three: SMH, SOXX, DXJ

Best-performing ETFs over the past year

ETFs of at least $1 billion ranked by their total return over the last twelve months.

Top three: EWY, FLKR, FLTW

Lowest-fee ETFs

ETFs of at least $5 billion ranked by their yearly expense ratio, the part of the fund that goes to the manager every year whatever it returns..

Top three: BKLC, VOO, VEA

Largest ETFs by assets

The ETFs read here with the most money in them.

Top three: VOO, IVV, SPY

Technology ETFs by five-year return

Funds with at least half their equity in technology companies, ranked by their average yearly return over five years, with fee and size beside it..

Top three: SMH, SOXX, EWT

Healthcare ETFs by five-year return

Funds with at least half their equity in healthcare companies, ranked by their average yearly return over five years..

Top three: BBP, FBT, XLV

International stock ETFs by five-year return

Equity funds with no more than a fifth in North America, ranked by their average yearly return over five years: the funds that hold the rest of the world..

Top three: DXJ, ARGT, DBJP

Bond ETFs by yield

Funds at least four-fifths in bonds and of at least $1 billion, ranked by yield.

Top three: ANGL, EVLN, FLRT

None of this is advice: each list is ordered by the figure it names, and past returns say nothing certain about future ones.