# SCHD Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium > SCHD trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated. Data as of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night. As of Oct 22, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night. ## SCHD bid-ask spread and liquidity ### IQ Liquidity Score Not scored, 2 of 6 measured. A fixed 0 to 100 scale of trading conditions, the same anchors for every fund; 100 is the easiest to trade. It measures how cheaply and reliably the fund can be bought and sold, not whether to own it. How the score is built Cost to trade Not measured: the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund Capacity, 100.0 Holdings can absorb $1.4bn a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 100.0 12 active dealers of 28; largest 55% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Aug 31, 2025 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: no daily closing premium is held for this fund Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) ### Capacity Its holdings can absorb $1.4bn a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is Cincinnati Financial Corp (CINF), 0.62% of the fund. ### Dealers 12 active of 28 authorized participants; the largest did 55% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Aug 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Nov 14, 2025). The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (55.4%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (15.2%), Citadel Securities LLC (11.8%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (9.3%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (2.7%), Virtu Americas LLC (2.4%), ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC (1.3%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (1.0%), BNP Paribas Securities Corp. (0.5%), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (0.3%), HRT Financial LP (0.1%), BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC (0.0%). 16 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing. ### How to trade SCHD When ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last minutes before the close. ETFIQ measures this fund’s own day once it has trade data. Size Up to $14m is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell. ### Coming with trade data Spread through the day, buyers against sellers, an estimate of retail flow, large trades and the closing auction’s share, each once ETFIQ has trade and quote data. ### Questions people ask Who is the AP for SCHD? SCHD’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Aug 31, 2025, lists 28 authorized participants (APs), and 12 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (55.4%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (15.2%), Citadel Securities LLC (11.8%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for SCHD? SCHD’s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Virtu Americas LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. ### Sources and dates - Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding’s 20-day median dollar volume, to Oct 22, 2026. - Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Aug 31, 2025, accession 0001410368-25-023240. ### Where to next The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser, and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources --- Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices. Cite: ETFIQ, SCHD trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/schd/trading/ Licence: https://etfiq.com/license/ Figures ETFIQ computes are free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). Issuer data stays under its owner's terms. HTML: https://etfiq.com/funds/schd/trading/