First Trust NASDAQ-100-Technology Sector Index Fund
$329.94−1.43 (−0.43%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $4.9B
- 1Y return
- +44.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.01%
- Holdings
- 47
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $326.23
- 52W range
The ETF.net QTEC Grade
Score 56 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.CScore 40Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 52Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 52Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 79Category 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 61Category rank
Our read on QTEC
BQTEC fishes in one pond: the technology names inside the Nasdaq-100, about 40 of them. Running since 2006, it is a narrower, Nasdaq-flavored cut of tech than the giant whole-sector funds.
The fund seeks to replicate, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq-100 Technology Sector Index.
Why people hold it
- About 40 tech names drawn from the Nasdaq-100 rather than the full sector roster. Concentrated on purpose, so individual holdings actually move the needle.
- Tracks its index closely and trades with enough activity for routine orders, so you get the Nasdaq tech screen rather than a tracking science project.
- Live since 2006, now a multi-billion-dollar fund, and sitting in the upper half of a crowded broad-tech ETF field. Not a fresh-launch experiment.
Worth knowing
- 0.55% a year, above the 0.40% typical for broad tech ETFs and well above XLK and FTEC at 0.08%. That is the toll for the narrower Nasdaq screen.
- Roughly 40 stocks from a single index means single names and tech sentiment swing this harder than a several-hundred-name sector fund.
- Distributions land only once or twice a year, so this reads as a growth-tilted equity holding, not an income stream.
QTEC Holdings
- Stocks
- 47
- 25%
- INTC
Sectors
- Technology84.7%
- Communication7.1%
- Consumer Discr.5.4%
- Industrials2.8%
Geography
- United States83.02%
- Netherlands6.05%
- Canada5.06%
- Ireland2.09%
- Singapore2.07%
- United Kingdom1.70%
QTEC 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 | QTEC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +44.0% |
| 1 month | +5.5% |
| 3 months | −1.3% |
| 1 year | +44.4% |
| 3 years | +32.1% |
| 5 years | +15.0% |
| 10 years | +21.1% |
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 | QTEC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +44.0% | |
| 2025 | +22.3% | |
| 2024 | +7.3% | |
| 2023 | +67.0% | |
| 2022 | −39.8% | |
| 2021 | +26.9% | |
| 2020 | +38.7% |
QTEC in the news
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QTEC Dividends
- 0.01%
- $0.03
- $0.03 per share
- Irregular
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.0083 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.0084 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.03 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.03 |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | $0.06 |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Mar 31, 2023 | $0.12 |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 | $0.08 |
| Sep 23, 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 | $0.05 |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Jun 30, 2022 | $0.02 |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Mar 31, 2022 | $0.01 |
QTEC Risk
- 26.0%
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.
- 0.89
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.
- −45.5%
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.
- 1.43
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QTEC Cost
- The middle half of Technology (Broad) funds
- Median 0.45%
13 of the 23 Technology (Broad) funds charge less.