First Trust S&P 500 Diversified Dividend Aristocrats ETF
$41.51−0.18 (−0.43%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $67M
- 1Y return
- +19.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.47%
- Holdings
- 98
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $41.72
- 52W range
The ETF.net KNGZ Grade
Score 39 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 23Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 67Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 39Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 34Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 29Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 44Category rank
Our read on KNGZ
DDividend Aristocrats with a diversification rule bolted on: KNGZ tracks a sector-neutral S&P 500 dividend-grower index, so sector weights are set by design instead of drifting toward wherever the dividend growers happen to cluster.
The Fund seeks to track the price and yield of the S&P 500 Sector-Neutral Dividend Aristocrats Index. It normally invests at least 90% of assets in index securities and uses an indexing approach.
Why people hold it
- The "diversified" in the name is structural: a sector-neutral index of roughly 100 dividend payers, so no single sector quietly becomes the whole portfolio.ftportfolios.com
- Plain index plumbing: normally at least 90% of assets in index securities, no manager discretion, and it has stayed close to the benchmark it names.ftportfolios.com
- Live since 2017 as a First Trust index tracker, with distributions on a quarterly schedule.
Worth knowing
- Cost is the trade-off: 0.50% a year against a 0.40% peer median, and SPDG runs sector-neutral S&P dividend exposure for 0.05%.
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so spreads and order type matter more here than in the category's household names.
- It sits in the lower half of its dividend-aristocrat peer group overall, with fee and trading costs, not index tracking, driving that.
KNGZ Holdings
- Stocks
- 98
- 37%
- HPQ
Sectors
- Technology41.6%
- Financials10.9%
- Communication10.4%
- Consumer Discr.9.9%
- Health Care9.1%
- Industrials6.6%
- Cons. Staples4.3%
- Energy3.0%
- Utilities1.8%
- Real Estate1.7%
- Materials0.8%
Geography
- United States89.82%
- Ireland9.01%
- Switzerland0.67%
- Bermuda0.50%
KNGZ 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 | KNGZ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.8% |
| 1 month | −2.1% |
| 3 months | +3.2% |
| 1 year | +19.8% |
| 3 years | +17.7% |
| 5 years | +10.5% |
| 10 years | — |
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 | KNGZ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.8% | |
| 2025 | +14.3% | |
| 2024 | +11.0% | |
| 2023 | +9.8% | |
| 2022 | −7.6% | |
| 2021 | +29.0% | |
| 2020 | +5.5% |
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KNGZ Dividends
- 2.47%
- $1.03
- $0.31 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.33 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.18 |
KNGZ 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.
- 0.86
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.
- −19.7%
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.
- 0.89
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
KNGZ Cost
- The middle half of Dividend Aristocrats funds
- Median 0.40%
5 of the 7 Dividend Aristocrats funds charge less.