First Trust California Municipal High Income ETF
FCAL NASDAQ
FCAL is an actively managed fund that targets fixed income securities of various maturities and credit ratings, with interest income that is exempted from federal and California state income tax.
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- Dividend yield
- 3.65% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 3.5% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.04 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 45.9049.28
How FCAL 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, FCAL returned +1.4% with dividends reinvested — −52.3 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 ±3% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −6.9% on Sep 29, 2026 — 89 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 6% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, FCAL delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.04 means FCAL 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 average46.37 −0.1%
- 26-day average46.76 −1.0%
- 50-day average47.28 −2.1%
- 200-day average47.92 −3.4%
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.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 36 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.69
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
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About First Trust California Municipal High Income ETF
FCAL is an actively managed fund that targets fixed income securities of various maturities and credit ratings, with interest income that is exempted from federal and California state income tax.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- FCAL
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US33739P8639
- CUSIP
- 33739P863
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Municipals
- Industry
- Broad Maturities
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Oct 13, 2026
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