First Trust Bloomberg Inflation Sensitive Equity ETF
$28.49+0.09 (+0.33%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $6M
- 1Y return
- +30.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.07%
- Holdings
- 50
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.49
- 52W range
The ETF.net FTIF Grade
Score 40 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 21Category 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 60Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 33Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 67Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 58Category rank
Our read on FTIF
CMost inflation exposure arrives as TIPS or a commodity futures roll. FTIF stays in stocks: about 50 US names selected by Bloomberg's inflation-sensitivity index rules. An equity-shaped answer to an inflation question.
The Fund seeks to track the Bloomberg Inflation Sensitive Equity Index before fees and expenses, normally investing at least 80% of assets in its component common stocks.
Why people hold it
- One idea, narrowly built: roughly 50 US common stocks drawn from Bloomberg's Inflation Sensitive Equity Index, with at least 80% of assets in those components.ftportfolios.com
- Rules pick the names, not a manager's read on the next CPI print. It tracks a published index rather than trading on a view.
- The 0.60% expense ratio lands near the middle of the thematic crowd, not the premium end where niche ideas often price themselves.
- Because the exposure is plain equity, there is no futures roll or bond duration in the machinery. Distributions come quarterly.
Worth knowing
- A small fund that trades thinly, so spreads can widen. Limit orders matter more here than with a heavily traded name.
- About 50 holdings means single stocks and sector tilts swing the fund harder than they would in a broad market index.
- Launched in 2023, so the strategy has a short public record and hasn't been tested across many inflation regimes.
FTIF Holdings
- Stocks
- 50
- 25%
- DINO
Sectors
- Energy43.1%
- Industrials18.3%
- Materials18.3%
- Real Estate14.3%
- Consumer Discr.3.7%
- Technology2.3%
Geography
- United States100.00%
FTIF 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 | FTIF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +25.5% |
| 1 month | −5.1% |
| 3 months | +2.8% |
| 1 year | +30.2% |
| 3 years | +12.9% |
| 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 | FTIF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +25.5% | |
| 2025 | +7.8% | |
| 2024 | +0.5% | |
| 2023 | +18.3% |
FTIF in the news
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FTIF Dividends
- 1.07%
- $0.30
- $0.07 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.35 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.16 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.05 |
FTIF Risk
- 14.5%
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.
- 0.58
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.
- −27.8%
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.
- 0.57
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FTIF Cost
- The middle half of US Thematic funds
- Median 0.35%
15 of the 21 US Thematic funds charge less.