First Trust NASDAQ® Clean Edge® Green Energy Index Fund
QCLN NASDAQ
QCLN seeks to track an equity index called the NASDAQ® Clean Edge® Green Energy Index The index is a modified market capitalization weighted index designed to track the performance of clean energy companies engaged in manufacturing, development, distribution and installation of emerging clean-energ...
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- Fund size
- 210M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.60% per year
- Dividend yield
- 0.11% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 40.7% High Risk
- Beta
- 1.57 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 41.0568.47
How QCLN 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, QCLN returned +3.6% with dividends reinvested — −50.1 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 ±41% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −32.1% on Jul 29, 2026 — 57 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 56% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, QCLN delivered less return with more risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 1.57 means QCLN 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
Downtrend- 12-day average48.73 −3.3%
- 26-day average49.03 −3.9%
- 50-day average50.04 −5.8%
- 200-day average50.50 −6.7%
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
Energy ETFs · Renewables — tracking the NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index.
- Assets under management210MUSD
- Expense ratio0.60%per year
- Holdings42
- Risk score4.4Medium
Launched February 2007. Fund data as of Feb 27, 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
- 0.05
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Mar 26, 2026
Last 12 months
0.05 USD / shareWhere QCLN shows up
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About First Trust NASDAQ® Clean Edge® Green Energy Index Fund
QCLN seeks to track an equity index called the NASDAQ® Clean Edge® Green Energy Index The index is a modified market capitalization weighted index designed to track the performance of clean energy companies engaged in manufacturing, development, distribution and installation of emerging clean-energy technologies including, but not limited to, solar photovoltaics, biofuels and advanced batteries.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 42 holdings
- Ticker
- QCLN
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US33733E5006
- CUSIP
- 33733E500
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Energy ETFs
- Industry
- Renewables
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 27, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.