First Trust China AlphaDEX Fund
FCA NASDAQ
First Trust China AlphaDEX Fund tracks the Defined China Index. The alpha-seeking index employs a quantitative methodology to select stocks based on both value and growth factors.
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- Fund size
- 8.71M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.80% per year
- Dividend yield
- 5.59% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 21.6% Above Average
- Beta
- 0.56 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 25.0332.99
How FCA 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, FCA returned −0.6% with dividends reinvested — −54.3 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 ±22% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −24.1% on Jul 17, 2026 — 65 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 52% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, FCA delivered less return with more risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.56 means FCA has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Downtrend- 12-day average25.70 −0.9%
- 26-day average25.92 −1.7%
- 50-day average26.25 −3.0%
- 200-day average27.26 −6.6%
The price is above 0 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is below the 200-day, a sign of a falling 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
China · Investable Market — tracking the NASDAQ AlphaDEX China Index.
- Assets under management8.71MUSD
- Expense ratio0.80%per year
- Holdings52
- Risk score6.5Medium
Launched April 2011. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 56 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.42
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
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About First Trust China AlphaDEX Fund
First Trust China AlphaDEX Fund tracks the Defined China Index. The alpha-seeking index employs a quantitative methodology to select stocks based on both value and growth factors.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 52 holdings
- Ticker
- FCA
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US33737J1410
- CUSIP
- 33737J141
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- China
- Industry
- Investable Market
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.