FlexShares is the ETF brand of Northern Trust Asset Management, offering factor-based and quality-oriented equity and fixed income strategies. FlexShares ETFs apply systematic approaches — including quality, value, dividend, and real asset tilts — to domestic and international markets, with a focus on risk management alongside return generation. The FlexShares ETF list spans equity and fixed income factor strategies across multiple market segments. This page lets you compare FlexShares ETFs on expense ratio, historical returns, dividend yield, max drawdown, Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, and Risk/Return Score — useful for evaluating factor-based funds for portfolio construction, diversification, income generation, or long-term investing.

FlexShares

The FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund seeks maximum current income consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity by investing at least 80% of its total assets in a non-diversified portfolio of fixed-income instruments, including bonds, debt securities, and other similar instruments issued by U.S. and non-U.S. public and private sector entities.

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RAVI

FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund tracks a quality-weighted dividend index of U.S. stocks, emphasizing companies with strong dividend sustainability, quality management, and defensive characteristics.

QDEF

FlexShares Quality Dividend Index Fund tracks a quality-weighted dividend index of U.S. stocks, balancing dividend yield with quality factors such as management efficiency, profitability, and cash flow generation.

FlexShares Morningstar US Market Factor Tilt Index Fund tracks the Morningstar US Market Factor Tilt Index, providing broad U.S. equity exposure with increased weighting toward small-cap and value stocks.

Symbol	Name	Sharpe Ratio (1Y)	Sharpe Ratio (5Y)	Sharpe Ratio (10Y)	Risk / Return Rank
RAVI	FlexShares Ultra-Short Income ETF	11.36	2.49	2.09	99
QDEF	FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund	2.27	0.90	0.75	72
QDF	FlexShares Quality Dividend Index Fund	2.20	0.74	0.69	71
TILT	FlexShares Morningstar US Market Factor Tilt Index...	2.19	0.65	0.73	71
FEUS	FlexShares ESG & Climate US Large Cap Core Index F...	2.00	—	—	62

Top FlexShares ETFs by Sharpe Ratio

Top FlexShares ETFs by Sharpe Ratio