First Trust Energy AlphaDEX Fund
$22.73+0.20 (+0.87%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.63%
- Fund size
- $373M
- 1Y return
- +42.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.59%
- Holdings
- 39
- Volume · 30D
- 1.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.82
- 52W range
The ETF.net FXN Grade
Score 50 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 33Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 60Category 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.AScore 80Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 86Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 70Category rank
Our read on FXN
CEnergy exposure without the two-giant problem. FXN ranks Russell 1000 energy names on growth and value marks, keeps the best scorers, and tier-weights about 40 of them so smaller drillers carry real weight. Running since 2007.
The Fund seeks to track before expenses the price and yield of the StrataQuant® Energy Index, an enhanced index using the AlphaDEX® methodology to select energy-sector stocks.
Why people hold it
- Rules do the picking: stocks are scored on growth marks (3, 6 and 12-month price moves, sales to price, sales growth) and value marks, then sorted into quintiles by score.nyse.comftportfolios.com
- Weighting is tiered, not cap-driven: the top-scoring quintile takes a third of the index, equal-weighted within tiers, so about 40 names share the load instead of two giants.nyse.com
- A 2007 launch means this strategy has run through multiple oil booms and busts, and shares change hands actively. Pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.63% a year, it charges roughly double the median factor fund in its peer group. That is the price of the quant screen.
- The index reconstitutes and rebalances quarterly, which the fund's prospectus notes can push portfolio turnover higher.otcmarkets.comnyse.com
- One sector, concentrated by design: energy prices and drilling budgets drive results, with no cushion from other parts of the market.ftportfolios.com
FXN Holdings
- Stocks
- 39
- 45%
- DINO
Sectors
- Energy96.0%
- Technology3.5%
- Utilities0.5%
Geography
- United States100.00%
FXN Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
FXN$14,276
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 | FXN |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +37.7% |
| 1 month | −4.5% |
| 3 months | +10.0% |
| 1 year | +42.8% |
| 3 years | +12.0% |
| 5 years | +18.7% |
| 10 years | +6.7% |
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 | FXN |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +37.7% | |
| 2025 | +3.4% | |
| 2024 | +0.3% | |
| 2023 | +1.0% | |
| 2022 | +46.9% | |
| 2021 | +51.7% | |
| 2020 | −19.9% |
FXN in the news
FXN Dividends
- 1.59%
- $0.36
- $0.06 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.11 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.07 |
FXN Risk
- 20.9%
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.
- 0.48
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.
- −31.7%
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.
- 0.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FXN Cost
0.63%
FXN0.63%
- The middle half of Energy (Broad) funds
- Median 0.46%
15 of the 24 Energy (Broad) funds charge less.