First Trust Horizon Managed Volatility Domestic ETF
$39.60−0.10 (−0.25%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.70%
- Fund size
- $56M
- 1Y return
- +2.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.31%
- Holdings
- 100
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $39.76
- 52W range
The ETF.net HUSV Grade
Score 48 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 32Category 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 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 52Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 80Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 62Category rank
Our read on HUSV
CMost low-vol funds rank stocks on the calm they already showed. HUSV pays Horizon Investments to forecast it instead, then weights hardest toward the names its models expect to move least.
The Fund seeks capital appreciation by investing at least 80% of net assets in domestic common stocks that the sub-advisor expects to have relatively low volatility.
Why people hold it
- The engine looks forward, not back: Horizon's models rank US-listed stocks by expected future volatility, and the calmest forecasts get the biggest weights.sec.gov
- Quantitative at the core, human at the edges. The sub-advisor can flex the number of holdings, the weightings and how aggressive the low-vol tilt runs as markets shift.sec.gov
- A compact book of roughly 80 domestic stocks, with a mandate to keep at least 80% of net assets in US common shares. Easy to see what you actually own.
- Trading since 2016, so the approach has been through real drawdowns rather than a backtest. Pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- 0.70% a year, above the median for US low-vol funds, and the index-based rivals in the aisle (SELV, CGCV) charge well under that. Active forecasting is what the premium buys.
- Thinly traded, so spreads and order timing matter more here than in the aisle's household names.
- Low forecast volatility is an expectation, not a floor. This is a fully invested stock portfolio and it can fall with the market.sec.gov
HUSV Holdings
- Stocks
- 100
- 23%
- BRK-B
Sectors
- Technology25.7%
- Financials17.9%
- Utilities11.9%
- Real Estate11.3%
- Industrials10.5%
- Consumer Discr.5.8%
- Cons. Staples5.6%
- Health Care5.6%
- Energy3.0%
- Materials1.6%
- Communication1.2%
Geography
- United States96.05%
- Ireland2.13%
- Switzerland1.01%
- Bermuda0.80%
HUSV Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
HUSV$10,228
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 | HUSV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +3.2% |
| 1 month | −3.1% |
| 3 months | +3.3% |
| 1 year | +2.3% |
| 3 years | +9.1% |
| 5 years | +5.5% |
| 10 years | +8.6% |
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 | HUSV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +3.2% | |
| 2025 | +4.9% | |
| 2024 | +12.6% | |
| 2023 | +3.5% | |
| 2022 | −6.3% | |
| 2021 | +26.0% | |
| 2020 | +5.4% |
HUSV in the news
HUSV Dividends
- 1.31%
- $0.52
- $0.11 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.06 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.19 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.14 |
HUSV Risk
- 10.1%
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.
- 0.48
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.
- −17.0%
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.
- 0.45
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HUSV Cost
0.70%
HUSV0.70%
- The middle half of US Active Low Volatility funds
- Median 0.44%
6 of the 10 US Active Low Volatility funds charge less.