Franklin FTSE Japan Hedged ETF
$46.40−0.40 (−0.85%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $229M
- 1Y return
- +37.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.85%
- Holdings
- 490
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.79
- 52W range
The ETF.net FLJH Grade
Score 75 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 97Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 63Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 55Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 75Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 51Category rank
Our read on FLJH
AJapan stocks with the yen taken out of the equation. FLJH hedges the currency back to dollars for 0.09% a year, the same fee as Franklin's unhedged twin and a fraction of the typical Japan fund.
The Fund seeks to closely track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the FTSE Japan Capped Hedged Index through passive indexing, using replication or representative sampling.
Why people hold it
- 0.09% a year. Currency hedging usually carries a surcharge; here it costs the same as Franklin's unhedged FLJP and far less than the median Japan fund.
- The hedge is the whole point: it aims to strip out yen-dollar moves so what you own is Japanese share prices, not a bet on the currency.
- Broad and deliberately un-top-heavy: roughly 500 Japanese companies tracked through a capped index, so no single name can swell into an outsized slice.
- Live since 2017 and one of the stronger builds in a crowded Japan peer group of index trackers.
Worth knowing
- The hedge cuts both ways. When the yen strengthens against the dollar, you give up the tailwind an unhedged Japan fund would capture.
- Thinly traded and small next to the Japan heavyweights, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than headline fee comparisons suggest.
- Distributions land once or twice a year, not monthly or quarterly, so income arrives in lumps.
FLJH Holdings
- Stocks
- 490
- 26%
- 8306.T
Sectors
- Industrials23.6%
- Technology19.5%
- Financials17.7%
- Consumer Discr.12.6%
- Communication8.2%
- Health Care5.4%
- Cons. Staples4.2%
- Materials4.0%
- Real Estate2.8%
- Utilities1.3%
- Energy0.9%
Geography
- Japan100.00%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
FLJH 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 | FLJH |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +25.0% |
| 1 month | +2.5% |
| 3 months | −0.2% |
| 1 year | +37.1% |
| 3 years | +28.0% |
| 5 years | +21.6% |
| 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 | FLJH |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +25.0% | |
| 2025 | +30.6% | |
| 2024 | +25.9% | |
| 2023 | +36.2% | |
| 2022 | −2.6% | |
| 2021 | +12.7% | |
| 2020 | +10.6% |
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FLJH Dividends
- 5.85%
- $2.74
- $0.29 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $2.45 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.63 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.83 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.75 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | $6.38 |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Jun 27, 2023 | $0.32 |
| Dec 16, 2022 | Dec 22, 2022 | $5.55 |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Jun 28, 2022 | $0.92 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 21, 2021 | $0.41 |
| Dec 20, 2018 | Dec 28, 2018 | $1.25 |
| Jun 20, 2018 | Jun 27, 2018 | $0.01 |
FLJH Risk
- 11.9%
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.
- 1.80
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.
- −20.4%
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.
- 0.61
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FLJH Cost
- The middle half of Japan funds
- Median 0.54%
No Japan fund charges less.