Federated Hermes Strategic Value Dividend Fund
Federated Hermes Equity Funds · 4 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Federated Hermes Strategic Value Dividend Fund is an actively managed global equity fund.
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- Global
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q4
The Funds investment objective is to provide income and long-term capital appreciation.
The fund invests primarily in large-cap and mid-cap U.S. stocks selected for above-average dividend yield combined with potential for dividend growth, using bottom-up fundamental analysis of balance sheet strength, earnings growth, and cash flow durability. The fund maintains at least 80% of assets in dividend-paying securities and may hold foreign stocks and real estate investment trusts. Because security selection depends on the adviser's assessment of dividend growth potential alongside current yield, fund performance will diverge from any benchmark index.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| SVAAX | 1.16% | 1.06% |
| SVACX | 1.92% | 1.88% |
| SVAIX | 0.92% | 0.81% |
| SVALX | 0.84% | 0.79% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 34.00% · as of 2025 Q4
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 99.25% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.31% |
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Financials | 18.3% |
| International | 18.3% |
| Utilities | 12.9% |
| Health Care | 12.6% |
| 7 smaller | 37.9% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +22.86% | +44.32% | +66.50% | 10.04% | -10.57% | |
| +21.78% | +40.67% | +60.06% | 9.94% | -11.08% | |
| +23.18% | +45.25% | +68.22% | 9.88% | -10.56% | |
| +23.15% | +45.48% | +68.88% | 10.00% | -10.56% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 8.82pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.76pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PNC | PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC (THE)PNC | 4.00% | $223.00 | $379.98M | 1.7M |
| USB | US BANCORPUSB | 3.88% | $56.66 | $369.34M | 6.5M |
| — | BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO PLC | 3.77% | $58.72 | $358.17M | 6.1M |
| ENB | ENBRIDGE INCENB | 3.56% | $55.46 | $338.33M | 6.1M |
| — | TOTALENERGIES SE | 3.53% | $93.11 | $335.54M | 3.6M |
| — | SANOFI SA | 3.42% | $93.42 | $325.48M | 3.5M |
| TFC | TRUIST FINANCIAL CORPTFC | 3.42% | $51.50 | $324.75M | 6.3M |
| PAYX | PAYCHEX INCPAYX | 3.41% | $92.63 | $324.11M | 3.5M |
| VZ | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INCVZ | 3.30% | $48.03 | $313.44M | 6.5M |
| PLD | PROLOGIS INCPLD | 3.16% | $142.02 | $300.82M | 2.1M |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-04-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 35.44% of net assets, top 25 72.66%, across 47 issuers.
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