First TrustMid-Cap GrowthFAD · Nasdaq
First Trust Multi Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund (FAD)
- Price
- $182.10
- —11 Sept 2026
- Assets
- $580.5M
- Total net assets
- Expense ratio
- 0.63%
- Category 1.05%
- Yield
- 0.10%
- Trailing distributions
- 3Y CAGR
- 20.7%+3.3%
- Category 17.3%
- 5Y CAGR
- 8.6%+4.9%
- Category 3.7%
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First Trust Multi Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund
Calendar-year returns
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Risk statistics
Five years of daily closes. Risk-free rate 4% a year.
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Holdings
The 10 largest positions make up 5.0% of the fund.
Top holdings
| Ticker | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| IBKR | Interactive Brokers Group Inc Class A | 0.54% |
| FTNT | Fortinet Inc | 0.54% |
| INCY | Incyte Corp | 0.52% |
| LITE | Lumentum Holdings Inc | 0.51% |
| DELL | Dell Technologies Inc Ordinary Shares - Class C | 0.51% |
| MS | Morgan Stanley | 0.49% |
| ILMN | Illumina Inc | 0.47% |
| CRWD | CrowdStrike Holdings Inc Class A | 0.47% |
| NTRA | Natera Inc | 0.46% |
| P | Everpure Inc Class A | 0.45% |
Portfolio valuation
Weighted averages of what the fund holds.
- P/E
- 26.5
- P/B
- 5.2
- P/S
- 3.0
- P/CF
- 17.8
Sector allocation
Share of the equity the fund holds.
- Technology25.9%
- Industrials21.6%
- Health care18.3%
- Consumer discretionary11.2%
- Financial services9.5%
- Real estate4.2%
- Communication services3.0%
- Materials2.3%
- Consumer staples2.2%
- Energy1.1%
- Utilities0.8%
Asset mix
- Stocks99.9%
- Cash0.1%
ETF details
- Issuer
- First Trust
- Category
- Equity · Mid-Cap Growth
- Ticker
- FAD
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Inception
- 8 May 2007 (19.3 years)
- Structure
- Exchange Traded Fund
- Expense ratio
- 0.63% (category 1.05%)
- Holdings turnover
- 110% (category 91%)
- Distribution yield
- 0.10%
- Beta, 3 years
- 1.25
- Total net assets
- $580.5M
Prices and returns as of 11 Sept 2026; total return with distributions reinvested, before brokerage and taxes. Not investment advice.
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