First Trust Water ETF
FIW NYSE Arca
The index of First Trust ISE Water ETF is designed to track the performance of small, mid and large capitalization companies that derive a substantial portion of their revenues from the potable water and wastewater industry, according to Clean Edge
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- Fund size
- 542M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.55% per year
- Dividend yield
- 0.37% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 16.2% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.75 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 99.48115.63
How FIW has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, FIW returned +1.6% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +0.4 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 ±16% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −14.0% on May 19, 2026 — 117 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 56% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.75 means FIW 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 average109.61 +2.4%
- 26-day average108.18 +3.7%
- 50-day average107.69 +4.2%
- 200-day average107.57 +4.3%
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)
OverboughtRSI 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
Industrial Goods · Water US — tracking the ISE Clean Edge Water Index.
- Assets under management542MUSD
- Expense ratio0.55%per year
- Holdings37
- Risk score4.3Medium
Launched May 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 4 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.41
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
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About First Trust Water ETF
The index of First Trust ISE Water ETF is designed to track the performance of small, mid and large capitalization companies that derive a substantial portion of their revenues from the potable water and wastewater industry, according to Clean Edge
- Featured in 3 curated themes
- 37 holdings
- Ticker
- FIW
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US33733B1008
- CUSIP
- 33733B100
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Industrial Goods
- Industry
- Water US
- Benchmark
- ISE Clean Edge Water Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Feb 27, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.