First Trust Emerging Markets Human Flourishing ETF
$50.10−1.25 (−2.44%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $150M
- 1Y return
- +80.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.91%
- Holdings
- 100
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.86
- 52W range
The ETF.net FTHF Grade
Score 26 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 11Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 85Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 36Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 42Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 26Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 45Category rank
Our read on FTHF
DFirst Trust's emerging markets fund tracks a "human flourishing" index, layering profitability and quality screens onto roughly 100 EM stocks. No other fund in its peer group follows the same benchmark.
The fund seeks to track the Emerging Markets Human Flourishing Index before fees and expenses and normally invests at least 80% of net assets in securities comprising that index.
Why people hold it
- A mandate nobody else runs: it is the only fund in its emerging markets multifactor peer group tracking the Emerging Markets Human Flourishing Index.ftportfolios.com
- The index screen is advertised on profitability and quality, so the basket leans toward EM companies that earn their keep rather than whoever has the biggest market cap.ftportfolios.com
- Rules-based and readable: roughly 100 stocks, with at least 80% of net assets normally in index constituents. You can see what you own and why.ftportfolios.com
- Distributions run on a quarterly schedule, the standard cadence for a diversified equity index fund.
Worth knowing
- The specialty index carries a specialty price: 0.75% a year, versus 0.26% at EMGF and 0.36% at AVES. You are paying up for the screen.
- Launched in 2023 and thinly traded, so the record is short and spreads can run wider than in the category's household-name funds.
- It is emerging markets equity, full stop: currency swings, local politics and single-country concentration ride along with the factor screen.
FTHF Holdings
- Stocks
- 100
- 54%
- 000660.KS
Sectors
- Technology45.6%
- Financials28.0%
- Materials9.3%
- Energy6.0%
- Industrials4.9%
- Cons. Staples2.9%
- Utilities1.7%
- Communication0.8%
- Health Care0.5%
- Consumer Discr.0.3%
Geography
- South Korea29.05%
- Taiwan24.36%
- South Africa14.93%
- Brazil14.51%
- Poland4.98%
- Mexico4.17%
- Greece3.02%
- Philippines1.81%
- 3.17%
Developed 0% · Emerging 100%
FTHF 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 | FTHF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +56.4% |
| 1 month | +7.6% |
| 3 months | −2.1% |
| 1 year | +80.4% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | FTHF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +56.4% | |
| 2025 | +65.4% | |
| 2024 | −8.2% | |
| 2023 | +18.3% |
FTHF in the news
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FTHF Dividends
- 2.91%
- $1.50
- $0.27 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.96 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.12 |
FTHF Risk
- 23.1%
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.
- 1.42
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.
- −21.1%
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.
- 1.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FTHF Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Multifactor funds
- Median 0.47%
17 of the 20 Emerging Markets Multifactor funds charge less.