First Trust Nasdaq Lux Digital Health Solutions ETF
$22.99−0.22 (−0.96%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.65%
- Fund size
- $5M
- 1Y return
- +31.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- —
- Holdings
- 51
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.94
- 52W range
The ETF.net EKG 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. A structural cap ceilings this fund at 40, so B and A are out of reach.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.DScore 33Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 68Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 38Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 34Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 44Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 22Category rank
Our read on EKG
DA ticker that spells out the mandate. EKG skips the pharma giants and tracks a Nasdaq index of health technology names: roughly 40 stocks building the digital plumbing of medicine, from diagnostics and devices to health data.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq Lux Health TechTM Index.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely narrow. Roughly 40 health tech names, not a broad sector fund where a few pharma megacaps set the outcome.
- Rules-based, not a stock picker's fund. It tracks the Nasdaq Lux Health Tech Index, so holdings follow published index rules rather than manager discretion.ftportfolios.com
- Launched in 2022, so there is a real multi-year record to inspect instead of a back-test on a brand-new theme fund.
Worth knowing
- 0.65% a year sits above the health care sector median, and the cohort's broad index heavyweights (VHT, XLV, FHLC) charge under a tenth of a percent.
- A small fund that trades thinly. Wider bid-ask spreads are the usual trade-off versus the cohort's most heavily traded names.
- One theme, about 40 stocks, no regular distribution schedule. Single names and the health tech cycle carry the weight here.
EKG Holdings
- Stocks
- 51
- 58%
- NTRA
Sectors
- Health Care90.0%
- Technology10.0%
Geography
- United States96.85%
- Netherlands3.15%
EKG 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 | EKG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +22.2% |
| 1 month | +4.0% |
| 3 months | +33.8% |
| 1 year | +31.9% |
| 3 years | +19.0% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
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 | EKG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +22.2% | |
| 2025 | +11.8% | |
| 2024 | +6.5% | |
| 2023 | −0.1% | |
| 2022 | −20.8% |
EKG in the news
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EKG Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
EKG Risk
- 24.9%
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.
- 0.36
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.
- −43.8%
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.
- 1.43
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EKG Cost
- The middle half of Health Care (Broad) funds
- Median 0.50%
16 of the 25 Health Care (Broad) funds charge less.