First Trust NASDAQ Global Auto Index Fund
CARZ NASDAQ
The First Trust NASDAQ Global Auto Index Fund tracks a market-cap-weighted index of global auto manufacturing firms.
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- Fund size
- 17.2M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.70% per year
- Dividend yield
- 1.02% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 32.0% High Risk
- Beta
- 1.41 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 69.99123.17
How CARZ has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 12Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, CARZ returned +45.9% with dividends reinvested — −7.8 pts behind its benchmark.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±32% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −21.4% on Jul 29, 2026 — 57 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 49% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, CARZ delivered less return with more risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 1.41 means CARZ has moved more than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average107.93 −2.2%
- 26-day average107.65 −2.0%
- 50-day average107.34 −1.7%
- 200-day average98.76 +6.8%
The price is above 1 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Industrial Goods · InvestableMkt Global — tracking the NASDAQ OMX Global Auto Index.
- Assets under management17.2MUSD
- Expense ratio0.70%per year
- Holdings32
- Risk score6.6Medium
Launched May 2011. Fund data as of Feb 27, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 10 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.08
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Dec 12, 2025
Last 12 months
1.08 USD / shareWhere CARZ shows up
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About First Trust NASDAQ Global Auto Index Fund
The First Trust NASDAQ Global Auto Index Fund tracks a market-cap-weighted index of global auto manufacturing firms.
- Featured in 2 curated themes
- 32 holdings
- Ticker
- CARZ
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Industrial Goods
- Industry
- InvestableMkt Global
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 27, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.