First Trust S&P International Dividend Aristocrats ETF
$22.70−0.26 (−1.11%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $171M
- 1Y return
- +20.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.98%
- Holdings
- 72
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.95
- 52W range
The ETF.net FID Grade
Score 37 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 10Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 50Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 78Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 25Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 38Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 59Category rank
Our read on FID
DThe Aristocrats formula with a passport. FID applies S&P's long dividend-record discipline to companies outside the US, holding roughly 80 international payers in one index fund and paying cash out quarterly.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the S&P International Dividend Aristocrats Index by investing principally in the securities comprising that Index.
Why people hold it
- The ex-US branch of a famous family: it tracks the S&P International Dividend Aristocrats Index, taking the long dividend-record screen overseas instead of down the S&P 500 roster.ftportfolios.com
- Rules do the picking. It has run as a passive index fund since 2013, with the quality and value screen written into the benchmark rather than left to a manager's mood.
- Roughly 80 holdings spread the income across many companies, and the fund distributes on a quarterly cadence.
Worth knowing
- At 0.60% a year, it runs above the US-focused aristocrat funds in its group such as NOBL and SDY. That gap is what the overseas mandate costs.
- One of the lighter-traded, smaller funds in the category, so bid-ask spreads can add to the cost beyond the expense ratio.
- The dividends are earned in foreign currencies, so exchange-rate swings show up in both the payouts and the returns a US investor sees.ftportfolios.com
FID Holdings
- Stocks
- 72
- 23%
- 0992.HK
Sectors
- Financials21.9%
- Utilities16.0%
- Industrials16.0%
- Real Estate9.5%
- Energy8.4%
- Consumer Discr.5.5%
- Communication5.2%
- Materials5.0%
- Technology4.9%
- Health Care3.9%
- Cons. Staples3.8%
Geography
- Canada15.81%
- Hong Kong12.94%
- United Kingdom10.85%
- Switzerland10.65%
- Japan10.34%
- South Korea6.37%
- Italy4.88%
- France4.41%
- 23.75%
Developed 83% · Emerging 17%
FID 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 | FID |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.9% |
| 1 month | −1.1% |
| 3 months | +7.0% |
| 1 year | +20.4% |
| 3 years | +19.9% |
| 5 years | +9.9% |
| 10 years | +7.3% |
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 | FID |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.9% | |
| 2025 | +32.1% | |
| 2024 | +5.4% | |
| 2023 | +9.9% | |
| 2022 | −9.7% | |
| 2021 | +12.8% | |
| 2020 | −7.6% |
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FID Dividends
- 3.98%
- $0.91
- $0.39 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.34 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.20 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.13 |
FID Risk
- 11.6%
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.
- 1.22
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.
- −29.1%
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.
- 0.75
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FID Cost
- The middle half of Dividend Aristocrats funds
- Median 0.40%
Every other Dividend Aristocrats fund charges less.