First Trust S-Network Future Vehicles & Technology ETF
$108.73−1.89 (−1.71%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.70%
- Fund size
- $49M
- 1Y return
- +54.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.23%
- Holdings
- 101
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $109.99
- 52W range
The ETF.net CARZ Grade
Score 44 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.DScore 30Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 59Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 65Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 50Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 41Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 63Category rank
Our read on CARZ
CA 2011 vintage that changed lanes. It spent its first decade tracking global carmakers, then in 2022 switched to an index of roughly 100 worldwide names across electric and autonomous vehicles, the tech that runs them, and the materials inside them.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the S-Network Electric & Future Vehicle Ecosystem Index, which focuses on companies involved in electric and autonomous vehicles and related enabling materials and technologies.
Why people hold it
- Old ticker, newer mandate: launched in 2011 as a global automaker index fund, it moved to the S-Network Electric & Future Vehicle Ecosystem Index in January 2022.sec.gov
- Covers the chain, not just the badges: about 100 global names spanning electric and autonomous vehicle makers, the enabling technologies, and the materials that feed them.
- The index caps any single holding at 4.5% and weights the rest by float-adjusted market cap, so one megacap cannot quietly become the whole fund.ftportfolios.com
Worth knowing
- The 0.70% expense ratio sits a shade above the peer-group midpoint and well above leaner builds like FDRV (0.39%) and IBAT (0.47%).
- A small asset base and light trading make wider bid-ask spreads more likely here than in the category's heavyweights.
- One industry chain, worldwide: it moves with electric and autonomous vehicle sentiment rather than the broad market, and cash comes back once or twice a year at most.
CARZ Holdings
- Stocks
- 101
- 48%
- MSFT
Sectors
- Technology59.6%
- Consumer Discr.18.2%
- Industrials9.6%
- Materials7.7%
- Communication4.8%
Geography
- United States58.83%
- China9.28%
- South Korea8.94%
- Taiwan4.52%
- Japan3.67%
- Germany3.38%
- Australia1.99%
- France1.77%
- 7.62%
Developed 39% · Emerging 61%
CARZ Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | CARZ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +42.0% |
| 1 month | +3.6% |
| 3 months | −8.8% |
| 1 year | +54.2% |
| 3 years | +30.7% |
| 5 years | +15.6% |
| 10 years | +14.5% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | CARZ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +42.0% | |
| 2025 | +37.2% | |
| 2024 | +3.2% | |
| 2023 | +42.4% | |
| 2022 | −31.2% | |
| 2021 | +18.0% | |
| 2020 | +54.7% |
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CARZ Dividends
- 1.23%
- $1.37
- $1.08 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $1.08 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.29 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.22 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.12 |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | $0.35 |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Mar 31, 2023 | $0.11 |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 | $0.24 |
CARZ Risk
- 26.6%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.85
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −40.3%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.39
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CARZ Cost
- The middle half of EV & Battery funds
- Median 0.64%
Every other EV & Battery fund charges less.