First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund
$115.24+1.47 (+1.29%)
- 0.50%
- $4.5B
- +19.8%
- 1.39%
- 0.2M sh
- $114.45
- low $90.24high $128.50
The ETF.net TDIV Grade
B
Score 56 out of 100
- 12 of 25
Score 56 of 100 falls in the B band. A is 70 or higher, B 55 to under 70, C 40 to under 55, D 25 to under 40, F under 25.
Cost
The fund’s net expense ratio, ranked against its category.C46 out of 100Rank 14 of 25Mission
Whether the fund did what it promised, tested against its stated mandate.A90 out of 100Rank 3 of 12Risk
How the fund held up when markets fell: downside volatility, drawdowns and tail loss.B68 out of 100Rank 4 of 25Tradability
How easy the fund is to trade: daily volume, and how far its price strays from net asset value.B66 out of 100Rank 9 of 25Holdings
How concentrated the fund is, and how complete and current its disclosed holdings are.B55 out of 100Rank 12 of 24Durability
Whether the fund is likely to stay open, judged by its age, its assets and its issuer’s assets.B62 out of 100Rank 10 of 25
Our read on TDIV
BIn 2012, "tech dividend" still sounded like a contradiction. TDIV was built around it: roughly 90 technology and telecom payers, weighted by the dollars of dividends they actually hand out rather than by market cap.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq Technology Dividend Index. It normally invests at least 90% of assets in securities comprising that index.
Why people hold it
- Weighting runs on the dollar amount of dividends paid, not market cap or yield, so the largest positions are the sector's largest payers.indexes.nasdaqomx.comftportfolios.com
- Trading since 2012, one of the first funds to treat tech as an income sleeve, and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that distributes quarterly.
- The index sets 80% technology and 20% telecom at each rebalance, with caps designed to stop the biggest names from swamping the other 90-odd holdings.ftportfolios.comsec.gov
- Volume is respectable for a niche strategy, so buying and selling shares is rarely the friction point.
Worth knowing
- 0.50% a year sits above the typical index tracker in its group, where plain broad-market funds such as SCHK and SPYV charge a few basis points.
- One sector, about 90 names. Concentration is the design, and a handful of very large payers carry real weight in the outcome.sec.gov
- The dividend screen is the whole filter: tech companies that pay nothing never enter the index, and First Trust notes no holding is obliged to keep declaring dividends.sec.govftportfolios.com
TDIV Holdings
- Stocks
- 88
- 57%
- TXN
Sectors
- Technology84.0%
- Communication13.2%
- Industrials2.8%
Geography
- United States80.73%
- Canada5.50%
- Taiwan4.63%
- Netherlands2.97%
- Ireland1.33%
- Luxembourg0.94%
- Singapore0.51%
- Switzerland0.47%
- 2.91%
TDIV Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
TDIV$11,980
Returns run to the Oct 12, 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 | TDIV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +18.7% |
| 1 month | −2.4% |
| 3 months | −0.4% |
| 1 year | +19.8% |
| 3 years | +28.0% |
| 5 years | +17.2% |
| 10 years | +17.1% |
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 | TDIV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +18.7% | |
| 2025 | +25.3% | |
| 2024 | +24.4% | |
| 2023 | +36.7% | |
| 2022 | −22.1% | |
| 2021 | +29.5% | |
| 2020 | +17.5% |
TDIV in the news
TDIV Dividends
- 1.39%
- $1.58
- $0.35 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
TDIV Risk
- 19.2%
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.
- 1.17
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.
- −32.0%
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.
- 1.34
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
TDIV Cost
0.50%
TDIV0.50%
- The middle half of Technology (Broad) funds
- Median 0.45%
12 of the 23 Technology (Broad) funds charge less.
Other funds in Technology (Broad)
- BXSWState Street SPDR S&P Software & Services ETFExpense ratio 0.35%1 year return +4.5%
- BQTECFirst Trust NASDAQ-100-Technology Sector Index FundExpense ratio 0.55%1 year return +45.1%
- BIGViShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETFExpense ratio 0.38%1 year return −0.7%
- CFXLFirst Trust Technology AlphaDEX FundExpense ratio 0.60%1 year return +38.1%
- CTDVProShares - S&P Technology Dividend Aristocrats ETFExpense ratio 0.45%1 year return +23.2%