First Trust Asia Pacific ex-Japan AlphaDEX Fund
$50.02−0.94 (−1.84%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.80%
- Fund size
- $114M
- 1Y return
- +40.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.52%
- Holdings
- 100
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.71
- 52W range
The ETF.net FPA Grade
Score 15 of 100 sits in the F 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 9Category 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.FScore 17Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 16Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.FScore 21Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 45Category rank
Our read on FPA
FA rare cut of the map: developed Asia-Pacific with Japan left out, run through First Trust's AlphaDEX growth-and-value screen instead of plain market-cap weighting. About 100 names, live since 2011.
The fund seeks before-fee results that generally track the price and yield of the Nasdaq AlphaDEX Asia Pacific Ex-Japan Index. The index uses Nasdaq's AlphaDEX methodology to select stocks from the developed-markets Asia-Pacific universe excluding Japan.
Why people hold it
- Narrow mandate most rivals don't offer: developed Asia-Pacific excluding Japan, while the top-scoring funds in its peer group spread across broad international baskets.ftportfolios.com
- AlphaDEX ranks the universe on growth and value factors and holds the stocks that score best, so index membership isn't just a function of company size.ftportfolios.com
- Fully rules-based and running since 2011: roughly 100 stocks, quarterly distributions, no manager discretion over what makes the cut.
Worth knowing
- At 0.80% a year it costs well more than double the typical international multifactor ETF. Peers like INTF (0.16%) and GSIE (0.25%) run factor screens for a fraction of that.
- Thinly traded and small by category standards, so spreads can run wider and larger orders can push the price around more than in the group's heavyweights.
- On the things that compound quietly (fee drag, trading friction), it sits in the weaker tier of the international multifactor group rather than near the front.
FPA Holdings
- Stocks
- 100
- 25%
- 009150.KS
Sectors
- Industrials34.3%
- Technology21.6%
- Financials9.7%
- Consumer Discr.8.0%
- Real Estate6.5%
- Energy6.4%
- Utilities5.0%
- Materials4.4%
- Cons. Staples3.3%
- Health Care0.8%
Geography
- South Korea58.95%
- Hong Kong22.50%
- Australia10.53%
- Singapore5.90%
- Taiwan1.05%
- China0.76%
- Bermuda0.31%
Developed 39% · Emerging 61%
FPA 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 | FPA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +38.1% |
| 1 month | +4.5% |
| 3 months | −9.6% |
| 1 year | +40.2% |
| 3 years | +29.8% |
| 5 years | +13.7% |
| 10 years | +9.0% |
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 | FPA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +38.1% | |
| 2025 | +43.2% | |
| 2024 | +3.9% | |
| 2023 | +9.9% | |
| 2022 | −14.6% | |
| 2021 | +3.0% | |
| 2020 | +13.4% |
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FPA Dividends
- 3.52%
- $1.79
- $0.15 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $1.00 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.32 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.27 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.18 |
FPA Risk
- 27.0%
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.
- 0.88
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.
- −28.3%
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.
- 1.60
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FPA Cost
- The middle half of International Multifactor funds
- Median 0.35%
25 of the 30 International Multifactor funds charge less.