First Trust Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index Fund
$34.43−0.37 (−1.06%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $1.6B
- 1Y return
- +25.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.99%
- Holdings
- 98
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $34.88
- 52W range
The ETF.net FGD Grade
Score 62 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 91Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 66Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 65Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 70Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 68Category rank
Our read on FGD
BA 2007-vintage dividend fund with a genuinely global map: US and overseas payers in one basket, chosen by a dividend quality and liquidity screen rather than raw yield alone.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index.
Why people hold it
- Global means global. The mandate is worldwide equity, not ex-US, so domestic and foreign payers sit in the same basket instead of two tickers.ftportfolios.com
- Live since 2007, so it has traded through the financial crisis, a pandemic and a rate spike, and has grown into a multi-billion-dollar fund.
- Names must clear a dividend quality and liquidity screen, so a fat yield alone does not buy a seat in the index.ftportfolios.com
- Roughly 110 holdings, quarterly distributions, and a portfolio that lines up tightly with the Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index it advertises.
Worth knowing
- At 0.55%, the fee sits above the cohort median (0.50%) and many times index peers like VYMI (0.07%) and SCHY (0.08%).
- A global book means much of it trades in foreign currencies, so exchange-rate moves show up in dollar returns alongside the stocks themselves.
- Moderately traded rather than a volume giant, and about 110 names is a tighter roster than broad-market dividend funds carry.
FGD Holdings
- Stocks
- 98
- 17%
- RHI
Sectors
- Financials35.5%
- Industrials15.8%
- Energy9.8%
- Consumer Discr.9.0%
- Communication8.2%
- Cons. Staples7.5%
- Materials5.8%
- Utilities4.7%
- Real Estate2.0%
- Technology1.6%
Geography
- United States20.98%
- Spain11.49%
- United Kingdom8.93%
- Canada8.65%
- France6.88%
- Hong Kong5.60%
- Korea (the Republic of)5.56%
- Norway5.10%
- 26.82%
Developed 88% · Emerging 12%
FGD 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 | FGD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.2% |
| 1 month | −2.5% |
| 3 months | +6.8% |
| 1 year | +25.6% |
| 3 years | +24.5% |
| 5 years | +13.0% |
| 10 years | +9.9% |
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 | FGD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.2% | |
| 2025 | +44.4% | |
| 2024 | +5.7% | |
| 2023 | +8.2% | |
| 2022 | −7.2% | |
| 2021 | +20.8% | |
| 2020 | −5.4% |
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FGD Dividends
- 4.99%
- $1.74
- $0.52 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.52 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.64 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.46 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.49 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.38 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.36 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.55 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.47 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.24 |
FGD Risk
- 12.4%
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.
- 1.53
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.
- −28.7%
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.
- 0.75
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FGD Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
21 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.