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First Trust Water ETF (FIW)

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Price: $112.24; —30 Oct 2026
Assets: $1.7B; Total net assets
Expense ratio: 0.50%; Category 0.00%
Yield: 0.77%; Trailing distributions

1Y return: 1.7%+7.5%; Category -5.8%
3Y CAGR: 13.9%+3.8%; Category 10.0%
5Y CAGR: 5.1%+12.8%; Category -7.7%

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First Trust Water ETF

Calendar-year returns

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Risk statistics

Five years of daily closes. Risk-free rate 4% a year.

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Trailing returns compared with benchmark
Period	1M	3M	6M	YTD	1Y	3YCAGR	5YCAGR	10YCAGR	LaunchCAGR
ETF	+8.2%	+3.4%	+5.9%	+3.9%	+1.7%	+13.9%	+5.1%	+12.8%	+10.0%
Miscellaneous Sector average	-5.0%	-5.5%	-15.0%	-3.2%	-5.8%	10.0%	-7.7%	6.5%	-1.7%
Difference	+13.1%	+8.9%	+20.9%	+7.1%	+7.5%	+3.8%	+12.8%	+6.3%	+11.7%

Holdings

The 10 largest positions make up 41.0% of the fund.

Top holdings

Largest holdings by weight
Ticker	Holding	Weight
A	Agilent Technologies Inc	4.75%
WAT	Waters Corp	4.49%
FERG	Ferguson Enterprises Inc	4.20%
ECL	Ecolab Inc	4.11%
VLTO	Veralto Corp	4.05%
IDXX	IDEXX Laboratories Inc	3.97%
AWK	American Water Works Co Inc	3.97%
XYL	Xylem Inc	3.89%
J	Jacobs Solutions Inc	3.84%
IEX	IDEX Corp	3.69%

Portfolio valuation

Weighted averages of what the fund holds.

P/E: 23.2
P/B: 3.4
P/S: 2.3
P/CF: 16.0

Sector allocation

Share of the equity the fund holds.

Industrials58.0%
Health care13.2%
Utilities11.0%
Technology10.5%
Materials5.5%
Consumer staples1.8%

Asset mix

Stocks99.9%
Cash0.1%

ETF details

Issuer: First Trust
Category: Equity · Miscellaneous Sector
Ticker: FIW
Exchange: NYSE Arca
Inception: 8 May 2007 (19.5 years)
Structure: Exchange Traded Fund
Expense ratio: 0.50% (category 0.00%)
Holdings turnover: 14%
Distribution yield: 0.77%
Beta, 3 years: 0.97
Total net assets: $1.7B

Prices and returns as of 30 Oct 2026; total return with distributions reinvested, before brokerage and taxes. Not investment advice.

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