First Trust Financials AlphaDEX Fund
FXO NYSE Arca
IDI constructs the StrataQuant® Financials 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...
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- Fund size
- 1.78B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.63% per year
- Dividend yield
- 1.81% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 14.7% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.85 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 54.1766.63
How FXO 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, FXO returned +15.6% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +2.1 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 ±15% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −11.7% on Mar 27, 2026 — 49 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 23% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.85 means FXO 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 average63.61 +0.6%
- 26-day average63.27 +1.1%
- 50-day average63.33 +1.1%
- 200-day average61.44 +4.2%
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
Finance · Broad Financials — tracking the StrataQuant Financials Index.
- Assets under management1.78BUSD
- Expense ratio0.63%per year
- Holdings186
- Risk score4.9Medium
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 18 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.16
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
1.16 USD / shareWhere FXO shows up
Curated themes and indices that hold FXO. Open one to see it in context, or test the whole theme in a portfolio.
About First Trust Financials AlphaDEX Fund
IDI constructs the StrataQuant® Financials 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 2 curated themes
- 186 holdings
- Ticker
- FXO
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Broad Financials
- Benchmark
- StrataQuant Financials 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.