FT Vest Rising Dividend Achievers Target Income ETF
$28.27−0.13 (−0.44%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $3.7B
- 1Y return
- +19.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 8.06%
- Holdings
- 73
- Volume · 30D
- 0.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.54
- 52W range
The ETF.net RDVI Grade
Score 75 of 100 sits in the A 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 72Category 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.AScore 92Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 84Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 96Category rank
Our read on RDVI
ATwo engines in one wrapper: roughly 50 rising-dividend stocks on the equity side, and calls sold on the S&P 500 (not on those stocks) for the income, targeting 8 points above the index's dividend yield, paid monthly.
The Fund seeks current income and, secondarily, capital appreciation. It primarily invests in U.S.-traded equities in the Nasdaq US Rising Dividend Achievers Index and sells U.S.-traded calls on the S&P 500 Index or ETFs tracking it.
Why people hold it
- The income target is written into the mandate: annualized distributions aimed at 8 percentage points above the S&P 500's dividend yield, paid monthly.
- Calls are written on the S&P 500, not on the fund's own holdings, so no individual dividend grower in the portfolio gets called away when it runs.ftportfolios.com
- A concentrated equity sleeve of about 50 US dividend growers, not a 500-name index clone wearing an options overlay.
- Billion-dollar-plus asset base and active daily trading, which puts it among the easier funds to move in and out of in this crowded category.
Worth knowing
- At 0.75%, it runs above the typical S&P 500 income fund, and cheaper overlays exist in the same lane (IVVW at 0.25%, GPIX at 0.35%).
- The prospectus discloses distributions can include return of capital, so part of a monthly payment may be your own money coming back.
- Stocks and options sit on different benchmarks. When the S&P 500 outruns the dividend-grower sleeve, the short calls give back more than the holdings pick up.
RDVI Holdings
- Other
- 73
- 22%
- LRCX
Sectors
- Financials39.0%
- Technology24.8%
- Industrials12.3%
- Consumer Discr.10.9%
- Communication4.0%
- Health Care3.7%
- Cons. Staples2.9%
- Energy2.5%
Geography
- United States95.81%
- Switzerland2.03%
- Ireland1.57%
- Bermuda0.59%
RDVI 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 | RDVI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.5% |
| 1 month | −2.7% |
| 3 months | −0.3% |
| 1 year | +19.4% |
| 3 years | +20.2% |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | RDVI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.5% | |
| 2025 | +17.9% | |
| 2024 | +14.5% | |
| 2023 | +18.6% | |
| 2022 | +9.9% |
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RDVI Dividends
- 8.06%
- $2.29
- $0.21 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.20 |
| May 21, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Apr 21, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Jan 21, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.18 |
RDVI Risk
- 14.4%
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.
- 1.01
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.
- −18.3%
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.
- 0.82
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
RDVI Cost
- The middle half of Active Option Income funds
- Median 0.95%
12 of the 47 Active Option Income funds charge less.