First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Dividend ETF
$44.66−0.28 (−0.62%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $75M
- 1Y return
- +15.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.60%
- Holdings
- 50
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.28
- 52W range
The ETF.net DDIV Grade
Score 35 of 100 sits in the D 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.FScore 8Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 75Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 23Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 36Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 36Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 46Category rank
Our read on DDIV
DMost dividend funds stop at yield. DDIV adds a second screen: Dorsey Wright's relative-strength momentum ranking, leaving about 50 income payers that are also trending. A trend filter bolted onto an income screen, running since 2014.
The Fund seeks to generally track the price and yield performance of the Dorsey Wright Momentum Plus Dividend Yield Index. It normally invests at least 90% of net assets in securities comprising that Index.
Why people hold it
- Two screens, not one. Dividend yield gets you in the door; Dorsey Wright relative-strength momentum decides who stays. Few income ETFs bother with a trend filter at all.ftportfolios.com
- Rules run it, not a manager's hunch. The fund normally keeps at least 90% of net assets in its index's stocks, so you get the stated strategy undiluted.ftportfolios.com
- A concentrated book of roughly 50 names and quarterly distributions, live since 2014 and through several full market cycles.
Worth knowing
- The overlay is not free: 0.60% a year, above the roughly 0.39% median for dividend-screen ETFs and well above plain trackers like SCHD (0.06%) and VIG (0.04%).
- Thinly traded and modest in assets next to the household-name dividend funds. Limit orders matter more here than in a fund that trades by the million.
- Momentum crowds into whatever is working. With about 50 holdings, sector tilts can shift sharply from one rebalance to the next.
DDIV Holdings
- Stocks
- 50
- 40%
- DINO
Sectors
- Financials31.3%
- Real Estate17.2%
- Industrials10.5%
- Health Care9.8%
- Energy9.3%
- Technology9.2%
- Consumer Discr.6.0%
- Utilities3.8%
- Materials2.9%
Geography
- United States94.71%
- Ireland2.19%
- Puerto Rico1.86%
- Netherlands1.24%
DDIV 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 | DDIV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.9% |
| 1 month | −3.8% |
| 3 months | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +15.1% |
| 3 years | +19.5% |
| 5 years | +10.6% |
| 10 years | +10.1% |
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 | DDIV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.9% | |
| 2025 | +12.2% | |
| 2024 | +27.2% | |
| 2023 | +9.9% | |
| 2022 | −12.5% | |
| 2021 | +39.9% | |
| 2020 | −3.6% |
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DDIV Dividends
- 1.60%
- $0.72
- $0.18 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.35 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.19 |
DDIV Risk
- 15.2%
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.
- 0.94
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.
- −21.1%
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.
- 0.92
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DDIV Cost
- The middle half of US Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.38%
47 of the 52 US Dividend Index funds charge less.