First Trust Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index Fund
FGD NYSE Arca
The Index universe is defined as all component companies of the 25 developed-market country indexes in the Dow Jones Global Indexes (DJGI) family
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- Fund size
- 575M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.58% per year
- Dividend yield
- 3.93% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 12.5% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.56 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 27.3335.35
How FGD has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 12Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, FGD returned +24.3% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +4.7 pts to the price move.
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 ±12% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −9.8% on Mar 20, 2026 — 28 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 16% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.56 means FGD 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 average33.05 −1.1%
- 26-day average33.53 −2.6%
- 50-day average33.73 −3.1%
- 200-day average32.21 +1.4%
The price is above 1 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OversoldRSI 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) · Dividend Yield — tracking the Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index.
- Assets under management575MUSD
- Expense ratio0.58%per year
- Holdings98
- Risk score5.7Medium
Launched November 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 39 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.28
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
1.28 USD / shareWhere FGD shows up
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About First Trust Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index Fund
The Index universe is defined as all component companies of the 25 developed-market country indexes in the Dow Jones Global Indexes (DJGI) family
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 98 holdings
- Ticker
- FGD
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US33734X2009
- CUSIP
- 33734X200
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Developed Markets (ex-US)
- Industry
- Dividend Yield
- Benchmark
- Dow Jones Global Select Dividend 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.