First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers ETF
RDVY NASDAQ
RDVY holds 50 US large-cap stocks screened for dividend growth and quality. The fund seeks stable dividend payers, but not necessarily high yields. RDVY selects its holdings from the 1000 largest US-listed companies, excluding REITs. Firms must meet cash-to-debt and payout ratio thresholds to be el...
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- Fund size
- 1.14B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.50% per year
- Dividend yield
- 0.85% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 14.3% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.89 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 64.4483.72
How RDVY 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, RDVY returned +22.8% with dividends reinvested — −30.9 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 ±14% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −9.0% on Mar 30, 2026 — 60 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 12% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, RDVY delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.89 means RDVY 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 average79.37 +0.5%
- 26-day average79.67 +0.1%
- 50-day average79.88 −0.2%
- 200-day average75.78 +5.2%
The price is above 3 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
US Equity · Dividend Yield — tracking the NASDAQ US Rising Dividend Achievers Index.
- Assets under management1.14BUSD
- Expense ratio0.50%per year
- Holdings51
- Risk score4.6Medium
Launched January 2014. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 9 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.68
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
0.68 USD / shareWhere RDVY shows up
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About First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers ETF
RDVY holds 50 US large-cap stocks screened for dividend growth and quality. The fund seeks stable dividend payers, but not necessarily high yields. RDVY selects its holdings from the 1000 largest US-listed companies, excluding REITs. Firms must meet cash-to-debt and payout ratio thresholds to be eligible, and must have increased both dividends and earnings over the past few years. Eligible companies are ranked by a combination of recent dividend increases, current yield, and payout ratio, and the best 50 stocks are selected
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 51 holdings
- Ticker
- RDVY
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US33738R5063
- CUSIP
- 33738R506
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- US Equity
- Industry
- Dividend Yield
- 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.