First Trust Consumer Discretionary AlphaDEX Fund
$65.06−0.47 (−0.72%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $248M
- 1Y return
- −3.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.65%
- Holdings
- 112
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $65.18
- 52W range
The ETF.net FXD Grade
Score 34 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 7Category 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 55Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 30Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 87Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 49Category rank
Our read on FXD
DMost consumer discretionary ETFs buy the sector as it comes. FXD screens it first: First Trust's AlphaDEX rules rank names on growth and value metrics, landing on roughly 120 holdings. A rules-based stock picker in index clothing, running since 2007.
The Fund seeks investment results that generally track the price and yield performance of the StrataQuant® Consumer Discretionary Index before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- The AlphaDEX screen ranks consumer names on growth and value metrics instead of just size, so the lineup can look very different from the plain sector index.ftportfolios.com
- Roughly 120 holdings spread the bet across retailers, restaurants, homebuilders and autos rather than parking most of the money in a couple of megacaps.
- It does what the label says: close tracking of the StrataQuant Consumer Discretionary Index, with no style drift away from US consumer discretionary equity.
- Live since 2007, so the methodology has run through housing busts, retail shakeouts and a pandemic rather than being a recent backtest.
Worth knowing
- The screen carries a toll: 0.60% a year, against a peer-group median of 0.35% and cap-weighted rivals like XLY, FDIS and VCR charging under a tenth of a percent.
- Volume is thin next to the sector's giants, so bid-ask spreads matter more at the moment you trade.
- Screened weights are a different bet from the headline sector: results can diverge from plain cap-weighted consumer discretionary exposure in either direction.
FXD Holdings
- Stocks
- 112
- 17%
- FOXA
Sectors
- Consumer Discr.69.1%
- Communication11.0%
- Industrials8.9%
- Cons. Staples6.0%
- Technology5.0%
Geography
- United States95.06%
- Switzerland1.39%
- Canada1.38%
- Bermuda1.29%
- United Kingdom0.64%
- Finland0.24%
FXD 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 | FXD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −3.9% |
| 1 month | −6.6% |
| 3 months | −4.1% |
| 1 year | −3.8% |
| 3 years | +9.9% |
| 5 years | +2.3% |
| 10 years | +7.2% |
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 | FXD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −3.9% | |
| 2025 | +6.7% | |
| 2024 | +10.6% | |
| 2023 | +23.4% | |
| 2022 | −21.6% | |
| 2021 | +22.7% | |
| 2020 | +13.0% |
FXD in the news
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FXD Dividends
- 0.65%
- $0.42
- $0.10 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.16 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.05 |
FXD Risk
- 18.1%
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.
- 0.31
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.
- −33.7%
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.
- 1.12
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FXD Cost
- The middle half of Consumer Discretionary (Broad) funds
- Median 0.35%
12 of the 14 Consumer Discretionary (Broad) funds charge less.