First Trust Nasdaq Transportation ETF
$42.34−0.08 (−0.19%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $987M
- 1Y return
- +22.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.03%
- Holdings
- 42
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.27
- 52W range
The ETF.net FTXR Grade
Score 49 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.DScore 36Category 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.CScore 51Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 66Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 45Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 78Category rank
Our read on FTXR
CTransportation with a screen on top. FTXR holds about 40 US names that move goods and people (rails, truckers, airlines, parcel), ranked on momentum and profitability instead of sheer size.
The fund seeks to generally track the price and yield of the Nasdaq US Smart TransportationTM Index before fees and expenses. It uses an indexing approach to replicate the index's holdings and weightings.
Why people hold it
- The Nasdaq US Smart Transportation Index scores companies on momentum and profitability and weights them on those scores, so the biggest firm isn't automatically the biggest position.
- About 40 holdings, all in transportation. A focused read on freight and travel rather than a diluted industrials basket.
- Live since 2016, so it carries a full-cycle record in a niche where narrow funds often don't stick around. Cash goes out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- The 0.60% fee sits at the middle of the transportation pack but above plain cap-weighted rivals IYT (0.38%) and XTN (0.35%), so the factor screen carries a price.
- One cyclical corner of the economy, roughly 40 stocks deep: fuel, freight rates and shipping demand hit the whole basket at once, so swings run wider than a broad market fund.
- Volume is moderate rather than heavy for the category, which can show up as wider spreads in fast markets.
FTXR Holdings
- Stocks
- 42
- 58%
- TSLA
Sectors
- Industrials66.7%
- Consumer Discr.32.7%
- Energy0.6%
Geography
- United States100.00%
FTXR 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 | FTXR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.9% |
| 1 month | −5.2% |
| 3 months | −5.0% |
| 1 year | +22.1% |
| 3 years | +16.6% |
| 5 years | +8.3% |
| 10 years | +9.1% |
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 | FTXR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.9% | |
| 2025 | +14.7% | |
| 2024 | +17.1% | |
| 2023 | +20.9% | |
| 2022 | −25.4% | |
| 2021 | +24.0% | |
| 2020 | +15.0% |
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FTXR Dividends
- 1.03%
- $0.44
- $0.13 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.40 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.12 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.07 |
FTXR Risk
- 19.9%
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.
- 0.62
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.
- −34.0%
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.
- 1.30
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FTXR Cost
- The middle half of Transportation funds
- Median 0.48%
4 of the 8 Transportation funds charge less.