First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF
$103.94+1.36 (+1.33%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.58%
- Fund size
- $17.0B
- 1Y return
- +34.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.38%
- Holdings
- 45
- Volume · 30D
- 1.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $102.97
- 52W range
The ETF.net CIBR Grade
Score 59 of 100 sits in the B 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 31Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 91Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 73Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 93Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 56Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 92Category rank
Our read on CIBR
BA 2015-vintage cybersecurity fund that grew into a multi-billion-dollar one. It tracks the Nasdaq CTA Cybersecurity Index with a tight basket of roughly 30 names, so every holding carries real weight.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield of the Nasdaq CTA Cybersecurity Index through an indexing approach. It normally invests at least 90% of net assets in the index's common stocks and depositary receipts.
Why people hold it
- Concentrated on purpose: roughly 30 stocks screened by the index as cybersecurity businesses, not a broad tech basket wearing a cyber label.
- Size and turnover work in your favor here: a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, which is what keeps spreads workable on a niche theme.
- Runs to the rulebook: at least 90% of net assets in the index's common stocks and depositary receipts, and it has tracked that index closely.
- Live since 2015, through multiple cyber hype cycles, and one of the stronger implementations in its peer group.
Worth knowing
- At 0.58% a year it sits above the 0.50% cybersecurity-ETF median, and cheaper shelves exist: IHAK at 0.47%, WCBR at 0.45%.
- One theme, about 30 names. A few holdings drive the outcome, so this behaves like a slice of tech, not a diversified core.
- Distributions land quarterly, but this is a growth-equity theme; the index tracks cybersecurity businesses, not payout streams.
CIBR Holdings
- Stocks
- 45
- 58%
- CRWD
Sectors
- Technology95.1%
- Industrials3.1%
- Communication1.9%
Geography
- United States89.96%
- Israel2.18%
- Ireland1.87%
- France1.81%
- India1.65%
- Canada1.61%
- Japan0.94%
CIBR Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
CIBR$13,411
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 | CIBR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +43.9% |
| 1 month | +8.1% |
| 3 months | +22.8% |
| 1 year | +34.1% |
| 3 years | +31.8% |
| 5 years | +15.7% |
| 10 years | +18.6% |
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 | CIBR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +43.9% | |
| 2025 | +13.1% | |
| 2024 | +18.2% | |
| 2023 | +39.7% | |
| 2022 | −26.5% | |
| 2021 | +19.7% | |
| 2020 | +50.4% |
CIBR in the news
CIBR Dividends
- 0.38%
- $0.39
- $0.07 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.0006 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.0043 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.01 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.17 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.0088 |
CIBR Risk
- 24.1%
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.
- 0.99
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.
- −33.9%
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.
- 1.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CIBR Cost
0.58%
CIBR0.58%
- The middle half of Cybersecurity funds
- Median 0.47%
6 of the 9 Cybersecurity funds charge less.