First Trust Dorsey Wright International Focus 5 ETF
$25.37−0.58 (−2.24%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $225M
- 1Y return
- +8.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.84%
- Holdings
- 5
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.75
- 52W range
The ETF.net IFV Grade
Score 65 of 100 sits in the B 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.AScore 87Category 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 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 39Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on IFV
BMost international index funds spread you across dozens of countries. IFV holds five: whichever First Trust country and region ETFs show the strongest relative price momentum, equal-weighted, picked by rules rather than manager hunches.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield of the Dorsey Wright International Focus Five Index. The index selects five First Trust international country- or region-based ETFs using relative-strength momentum and equal-weights them.
Why people hold it
- Momentum with a rulebook: Dorsey Wright's relative strength screen picks the five holdings, so country bets shift on a formula, not a manager's read of the news.ftportfolios.com
- One ticket covers a rotating set of single-country and regional funds, a trade that would otherwise mean owning and swapping several positions yourself.ftportfolios.com
- Trading since 2014, so the rules have run in live markets, through calm and chaos, rather than only on a backtest.
Worth knowing
- The 1.14% expense ratio sits well above the roughly 0.45% median for index-tracking funds in its peer group, and far above broad global options like VT at 0.06%.
- Five equal-weighted holdings is concentrated by design: leadership rotates, and the portfolio can end up parked in a handful of markets, with currency moves along for the ride.ftportfolios.com
- The menu is First Trust's own international country and region ETFs, so the screen ranks one issuer's lineup rather than every fund on the market.ftportfolios.com
IFV Holdings
- Stocks
- 5
- 100%
- FEP
Sectors
- Industrials27.8%
- Technology12.9%
- Consumer Discr.11.4%
- Financials9.3%
- Materials8.6%
- Energy6.7%
- Health Care6.4%
- Utilities4.8%
- Cons. Staples4.7%
- Real Estate4.2%
- Communication3.3%
Geography
- United States100.00%
IFV 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 | IFV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +5.5% |
| 1 month | −1.0% |
| 3 months | −6.0% |
| 1 year | +8.9% |
| 3 years | +15.2% |
| 5 years | +4.5% |
| 10 years | +6.1% |
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 | IFV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +5.5% | |
| 2025 | +32.2% | |
| 2024 | +0.3% | |
| 2023 | +20.4% | |
| 2022 | −25.4% | |
| 2021 | +5.6% | |
| 2020 | +6.1% |
IFV in the news
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IFV Dividends
- 1.84%
- $0.48
- $0.25 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.0087 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.18 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.05 |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | $0.31 |
IFV Risk
- 14.0%
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.
- 0.78
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.
- −32.2%
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.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IFV Cost
- The middle half of Trend-Following / Tactical Index funds
- Median 0.60%
2 of the 20 Trend-Following / Tactical Index funds charge less.