EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-25
C000203178 — EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends Portfolio. United States Large Cap Value Equity · $361.29M AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000203178 Fund Overview
EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Eq Advisors Trust, categorised as United States Large Cap Value Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Eq Advisors Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $361.29M
- 1-year return: 11.0%
- SEC CIK: 0001027263
- SEC series ID: S000062649
- Share class ID: C000203178
C000203178 Investment Objective and Strategy
EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Eq Advisors Trust.
Investment objective
Seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation. Preservation of capital, while not a goal, is also an important consideration.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in equity securities of financially sound companies that have paid consistently rising dividends. The Portfolio invests predominantly in equity securities, mostly common stocks. Companies that have paid consistently rising dividends include those companies that currently pay dividends on their common stocks and have maintained or increased their dividend rate during the last four consecutive years. Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio invests at least 65% of its net assets in equity securities of companies that have: consistently increased dividends in at least 8 out of the last 10 years and have not decreased dividends during that time; increased dividends substantially (at least 100%) over the last 10 years; reinvested earnings, paying out less than 65% of current earnings in dividends; and either long-term debt that is no more than 50% of total capitalization or senior debt that has been rated investment grade by at least one of the major bond rating organizations.
The Portfolio typically invests the rest of its assets in equity securities of companies that pay dividends but do not meet all of these criteria. Although the Sub-Adviser searches for investments that it believes meet the criteria across all sectors, from time to time, based on economic conditions, the Portfolio may have significant positions in particular sectors. The Portfolio may invest in companies of any size, across the entire market capitalization spectrum. From time to time, the Portfolio may invest a significant portion of its assets in the securities of smaller and midsize companies (i.e., companies with market capitalizations that are similar in size to those of companies in the Russell 2500 TM Index, which ranged from approximately $133 million to approximately $9.9 billion as of the most recently available reconstitution).
The Portfolio may invest up to 25% of its total assets in foreign securities. The Sub-Adviser is a research driven, fundamental investor. As a bottom-up investor focusing primarily on individual securities, the Sub-Adviser looks for companies that it believes meet the criteria above and are fundamentally sound and attempts to acquire them at attractive prices. In following these criteria, the Portfolio does not necessarily focus on companies whose securities pay a high dividend rate but rather on companies that consistently increase their dividends. The Portfolio also may lend its portfolio securities to earn additional income.
C000203178 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Corp. | 5.52% |
| Broadcom, Inc. | 4.83% |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | 4.22% |
| Apple, Inc. | 4.15% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 3.96% |
| Visa, Inc. | 3.33% |
| Linde plc | 3.25% |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 3.24% |
| Walmart, Inc. | 3.07% |
| Analog Devices, Inc. | 2.70% |
C000203178 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 97.7% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.4% |
C000203178 Performance
Total returns for C000203178 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 5.1% |
| 1 year | 11.0% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 10.4% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 8.0% |
C000203178 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000203178, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 8.8%
C000203178 Costs and Fees
C000203178 costs about $87 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.87%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.99%
- Portfolio turnover: 16%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.76 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000203178 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends Portfolio had net outflows of $4.74M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$460.15K |
| 2026-05 | −$2.31M |
| 2026-04 | −$1.91M |
| 2026-03 | −$2.91M |
| 2026-02 | −$2.23M |
| 2026-01 | −$2.32M |
C000203178 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000203178 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official EQ/Franklin Rising Dividends Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2023-04-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-27
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-11
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-10
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.