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First Trust Nasdaq BuyWrite Income ETF (FTQI)

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Price: $22.10; —11 Sept 2026
Assets: $962.8M; Total net assets
Expense ratio: 0.75%; Category 0.88%
Yield: 7.62%; Trailing distributions

1Y return: 21.5%+8.2%; Category 13.3%
3Y CAGR: 17.1%+1.8%; Category 15.4%
5Y CAGR: 12.3%+3.5%; Category 8.9%

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First Trust Nasdaq BuyWrite Income 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	+0.1%	+3.8%	+16.3%	+14.8%	+21.5%	+17.1%	+12.3%	+8.6%	+7.1%
Derivative Income average	1.1%	2.8%	12.1%	7.8%	13.3%	15.4%	8.9%	8.6%	8.3%
Difference	-1.1%	+1.0%	+4.2%	+7.0%	+8.2%	+1.8%	+3.5%	0.0%	-1.2%

Holdings

The 10 largest positions make up 40.6% of the fund.

Top holdings

Largest holdings by weight
Ticker	Holding	Weight
AAPL	Apple Inc	8.61%
NVDA	NVIDIA Corp	5.91%
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices Inc	4.40%
AMZN	Amazon.com Inc	4.24%
COST	Costco Wholesale Corp	3.20%
CSCO	Cisco Systems Inc	3.14%
TSLA	Tesla Inc	2.98%
META	Meta Platforms Inc Class A	2.83%
WMT	Walmart Inc	2.82%
PLTR	Palantir Technologies Inc Ordinary Shares - Class A	2.44%

Portfolio valuation

Weighted averages of what the fund holds.

P/E: 29.3
P/B: 7.3
P/S: 4.5
P/CF: 21.4

Sector allocation

Share of the equity the fund holds.

Technology46.2%
Consumer discretionary12.0%
Health care8.6%
Communication services8.1%
Consumer staples7.5%
Financial services5.8%
Industrials5.4%
Energy2.7%
Utilities1.4%
Materials1.2%
Real estate1.1%

Asset mix

Stocks94.0%
Cash6.0%

ETF details

Issuer: First Trust
Category: Equity · Derivative Income
Ticker: FTQI
Exchange: Nasdaq
Inception: 6 Jan 2014 (12.7 years)
Structure: Exchange Traded Fund
Expense ratio: 0.75% (category 0.88%)
Holdings turnover: 59% (category 68%)
Distribution yield: 7.62%
Beta, 3 years: 0.70
Total net assets: $962.8M

Prices and returns as of 11 Sept 2026; total return with distributions reinvested, before brokerage and taxes. Not investment advice.

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