First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF
FTXL NASDAQ
The investment seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield (before the fund's fees and expenses) of the Nasdaq US Smart Semiconductor Index™. The fund invests at least 90% of its net assets (including investment borrowings) in the common stocks and depository receipts...
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- Fund size
- 43.2M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.60% per year
- Dividend yield
- 0.07% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 47.4% High Risk
- Beta
- 1.85 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 111.64289.16
How FTXL 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, FTXL returned +108.2% with dividends reinvested — +54.5 pts ahead of 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 ±47% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −30.8% on Jul 29, 2026 — 41 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 49% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, FTXL delivered more return, with more risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 1.85 means FTXL 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 average251.12 −3.7%
- 26-day average246.24 −1.8%
- 50-day average241.57 +0.1%
- 200-day average208.38 +16.1%
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
Technology · Semiconductors — tracking the Nasdaq US Smart Semiconductor Index™.
- Assets under management43.2MUSD
- Expense ratio0.60%per year
- Holdings30
- Risk score5.9Medium
Launched September 2016. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 1 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.17
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Jun 25, 2026
Last 12 months
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About First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF
The investment seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield (before the fund's fees and expenses) of the Nasdaq US Smart Semiconductor Index™. The fund invests at least 90% of its net assets (including investment borrowings) in the common stocks and depository receipts that comprise the index. The index is designed to provide exposure to U.S. companies comprising the semiconductor sector that have been selected based upon their liquidity and weighted based upon their cumulative score on three investing factors: volatility, value and growth
- Featured in 2 curated themes
- 30 holdings
- Ticker
- FTXL
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US33738R8117
- CUSIP
- 33738R811
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- 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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