Fidelity® MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF
FSTA NYSE Arca
Fidelity® MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF offers exposure to the consumer staples sector as defined by the GICS sector classification scheme
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- Fund size
- 574M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.08% per year
- Dividend yield
- 1.65% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 14.3% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.27 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 47.3856.27
How FSTA 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, FSTA returned +11.6% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +1.8 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 ±14% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −9.9% on Oct 1, 2026 — 216 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 47% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.27 means FSTA 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 average52.10 +2.4%
- 26-day average52.17 +2.3%
- 50-day average52.45 +1.8%
- 200-day average52.28 +2.1%
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)
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
Consumer Non-Durables · InvestableMkt US Cies — tracking the MSCI US Investable Market Consumer Staples 25/50 Index.
- Assets under management574MUSD
- Expense ratio0.08%per year
- Holdings116
- Risk score2.1Low
Launched October 2013. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 17 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.88
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 18, 2026
Last 12 months
0.88 USD / shareWhere FSTA shows up
Curated themes and indices that hold FSTA. Open one to see it in context, or test the whole theme in a portfolio.
About Fidelity® MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF
Fidelity® MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF offers exposure to the consumer staples sector as defined by the GICS sector classification scheme
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 116 holdings
- Ticker
- FSTA
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US3160923039
- CUSIP
- 316092303
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Consumer Non-Durables
- Industry
- InvestableMkt US Cies
- Benchmark
- MSCI US Investable Market Consumer Staples 25/50 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.