First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund
FEMS NASDAQ
First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund
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- Fund size
- 152M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.80% per year
- Dividend yield
- 3.90% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 18.0% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.65 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 39.7448.39
How FEMS has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 13Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, FEMS returned +18.9% with dividends reinvested — −34.8 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 ±18% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −12.4% on Jul 29, 2026 — 84 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 36% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, FEMS delivered less return with more risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.65 means FEMS 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 average45.86 +0.3%
- 26-day average45.58 +0.9%
- 50-day average45.46 +1.2%
- 200-day average44.41 +3.6%
The price is above 4 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
Emerging Markets · Small Cap — tracking the NASDAQ AlphaDEX Emerging Markets Small Cap Index.
- Assets under management152MUSD
- Expense ratio0.80%per year
- Holdings218
- Risk score6.9Medium
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 39 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.80
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
1.80 USD / shareWhere FEMS shows up
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About First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund
First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 218 holdings
- Ticker
- FEMS
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Emerging Markets
- Industry
- Small Cap
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 13, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.