First Trust Developed Markets ex-US Small Cap AlphaDEX® Fund
FDTS NASDAQ
First Trust Developed Markets ex-US Small Cap AlphaDEX® Fund tracks a tiered equal-weighted index of 400 small-cap companies selected from the S&P Developed Markets ex-US BMI based on S&P's AlphaDex selection methodology
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- Fund size
- 8.05M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.80% per year
- Dividend yield
- 2.60% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 20.1% Above Average
- Beta
- 0.77 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 53.0072.20
How FDTS 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, FDTS returned +34.9% with dividends reinvested — −18.8 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 ±20% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −13.1% on Jul 29, 2026 — 82 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 28% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, FDTS delivered less return with more risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.77 means FDTS 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
Uptrend- 12-day average70.90 −1.2%
- 26-day average70.67 −0.9%
- 50-day average69.90 +0.2%
- 200-day average65.36 +7.1%
The price is above 2 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
Developed Markets (ex-US) · SmallCap — tracking the NASDAQ AlphaDEX Developed Markets Ex-US Small Cap Index.
- Assets under management8.05MUSD
- Expense ratio0.80%per year
- Holdings408
- Risk score7.3High
Launched February 2012. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 26 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.82
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
1.82 USD / shareWhere FDTS shows up
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About First Trust Developed Markets ex-US Small Cap AlphaDEX® Fund
First Trust Developed Markets ex-US Small Cap AlphaDEX® Fund tracks a tiered equal-weighted index of 400 small-cap companies selected from the S&P Developed Markets ex-US BMI based on S&P's AlphaDex selection methodology
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 408 holdings
- Ticker
- FDTS
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US33737J4067
- CUSIP
- 33737J406
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Developed Markets (ex-US)
- Industry
- SmallCap
- 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.