First Trust Consumer Discretionary AlphaDEX® Fund
FXD NYSE Arca
IDI constructs the StrataQuant® Consumer Discretionary Index by ranking the stocks which are members of the Russell 1000® Index on growth factors including three, six and 12-month price appreciation, sales to price and one year sales growth, and, separately, on value factors including book value to...
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- Fund size
- 277M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.63% per year
- Dividend yield
- 0.55% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 20.1% Above Average
- Beta
- 0.99 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 61.9271.95
How FXD 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, FXD returned +5.6% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +0.6 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 ±20% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −13.9% on Mar 30, 2026 — 76 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 47% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.99 means FXD has moved roughly in line with 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 average67.09 +2.0%
- 26-day average66.58 +2.8%
- 50-day average66.74 +2.6%
- 200-day average67.04 +2.1%
The price is above 4 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
Consumer Discretionary · InvestableMkt MultiFactors — tracking the StrataQuant Consumer Discretionary Index.
- Assets under management277MUSD
- Expense ratio0.63%per year
- Holdings119
- Risk score4.5Medium
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 6 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.38
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
0.38 USD / shareWhere FXD shows up
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About First Trust Consumer Discretionary AlphaDEX® Fund
IDI constructs the StrataQuant® Consumer Discretionary Index by ranking the stocks which are members of the Russell 1000® Index on growth factors including three, six and 12-month price appreciation, sales to price and one year sales growth, and, separately, on value factors including book value to price, cash flow to price and return on assets.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 119 holdings
- Ticker
- FXD
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry
- InvestableMkt MultiFactors
- Benchmark
- StrataQuant Consumer Discretionary 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.