First Trust STOXX European Select Dividend Index Fund
$19.82−0.38 (−1.86%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.56%
- Fund size
- $931M
- 1Y return
- +31.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.99%
- Holdings
- 30
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $20.26
- 52W range
The ETF.net FDD Grade
Score 56 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 34Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 95Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 62Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.FScore 14Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 68Category rank
Our read on FDD
BMost international dividend funds spread themselves across the whole developed world. FDD skips the detour: about 30 of Europe's highest-yielding stocks, screened for dividend track record, in a fund that has been running since 2007.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the STOXX Europe Select Dividend 30 Index through an indexing strategy.
Why people hold it
- Pure Europe, no global filler: about 30 high-yielders drawn from the STOXX Europe 600, not a worldwide blend with a European slice tucked inside.es.finance.yahoo.com
- Yield alone doesn't earn a spot. Constituents need a non-negative five-year dividend-per-share growth record and a dividend-to-earnings ratio of 60% or less.es.finance.yahoo.comstoxx.com
- It has tracked its index tightly, which is the entire job of an index fund.
- Listed in 2007 and pays quarterly, so there's a long live record through Europe's rougher stretches rather than a backtest.
Worth knowing
- 0.56% a year sits above the cohort median of 0.50% and well above broad rivals like VYMI (0.07%) and SCHY (0.08%), which fish in a much wider pond than Europe.
- About 30 holdings means every name pulls real weight, and a yield-first screen can crowd into whichever sectors happen to be paying the most.
- Holdings trade in euros, pounds and other European currencies, so the dollar's moves land in your return right alongside the stocks'.
FDD Holdings
- Stocks
- 30
- 44%
- LGEN.L
Sectors
- Financials57.0%
- Industrials12.3%
- Energy10.4%
- Consumer Discr.8.4%
- Cons. Staples4.9%
- Real Estate2.7%
- Materials2.7%
- Communication1.7%
Geography
- France25.23%
- Netherlands22.94%
- United Kingdom16.17%
- Germany7.41%
- Jersey5.05%
- Norway4.74%
- South Africa4.14%
- Italy3.19%
- 11.13%
Developed 88% · Emerging 12%
FDD 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 | FDD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +19.4% |
| 1 month | −1.3% |
| 3 months | +6.3% |
| 1 year | +31.5% |
| 3 years | +28.7% |
| 5 years | +13.7% |
| 10 years | +10.8% |
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 | FDD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +19.4% | |
| 2025 | +62.5% | |
| 2024 | +0.3% | |
| 2023 | +14.1% | |
| 2022 | −16.1% | |
| 2021 | +16.0% | |
| 2020 | −3.9% |
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FDD Dividends
- 4.99%
- $1.01
- $0.58 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.58 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.41 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.17 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.15 |
FDD Risk
- 14.8%
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.
- 1.52
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.
- −34.8%
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.
- 0.83
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FDD Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
24 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.