First Trust Large Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund
$178.30−1.18 (−0.66%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.58%
- Fund size
- $1.3B
- 1Y return
- +10.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.15%
- Holdings
- 187
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $178.37
- 52W range
The ETF.net FTC Grade
Score 44 of 100 sits in the C 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 19Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 63Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 27Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 54Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 72Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 77Category rank
Our read on FTC
CA 2007-vintage smart-beta original. Instead of ranking large-cap growth names by size, FTC scores the field on growth and value metrics and holds only the roughly 190 stocks its AlphaDEX screen likes best.
The fund seeks investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield of the Nasdaq AlphaDEX Large Cap Growth Index, before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- Rules-based, not cap-weighted: the AlphaDEX screen ranks large caps on both growth and value measures, so position sizes come from the scoring model rather than from a company's market value.ftportfolios.com
- Launched in 2007, making it one of the elder statesmen of factor investing, with a live record across multiple full market cycles rather than a backtest.
- Roughly 190 holdings, a far wider net than the concentrated megacap-heavy growth funds it sits beside. It is a multi-billion-dollar fund and pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.58%, the fee runs well above the multifactor peer median of 0.32%, and above rules-based rivals like FNDX (0.25%) and IUSG (0.04%). The screen has to earn that gap.
- Thinly traded compared with its category, so spreads can widen. Limit orders and avoiding the opening and closing bells matter more here than with the mega-liquid names.
- The blended growth-and-value screen means the portfolio can look and behave quite differently from a plain large-cap growth benchmark in any given stretch.
FTC Holdings
- Stocks
- 187
- 11%
- DELL
Sectors
- Technology32.8%
- Industrials24.1%
- Health Care10.9%
- Consumer Discr.9.5%
- Financials8.6%
- Materials3.6%
- Communication3.6%
- Real Estate2.4%
- Cons. Staples1.7%
- Energy1.7%
- Utilities1.1%
Geography
- United States96.68%
- Ireland2.24%
- Cayman Islands0.63%
- Switzerland0.45%
FTC 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 | FTC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.3% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −7.5% |
| 1 year | +10.4% |
| 3 years | +23.2% |
| 5 years | +9.6% |
| 10 years | +14.0% |
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 | FTC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.3% | |
| 2025 | +15.9% | |
| 2024 | +26.6% | |
| 2023 | +20.7% | |
| 2022 | −23.3% | |
| 2021 | +24.4% | |
| 2020 | +33.3% |
FTC in the news
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FTC Dividends
- 0.15%
- $0.27
- $0.04 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.21 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.11 |
FTC Risk
- 18.0%
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.
- −31.2%
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.
- 1.14
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FTC Cost
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
77 of the 98 US Multifactor funds charge less.