First Trust Merger Arbitrage ETF
MARB NYSE Arca
The Fund seeks to provide investors with capital appreciation. Under normal market conditions, the Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by establishing long and short positions in the equity securities of companies that are involved in publicly-announced significant corporate event such a...
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- Dividend yield
- 0.63% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 4.3% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.05 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 20.1221.01
How MARB has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Jun 23Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, MARB returned +4.8% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +0.7 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 ±4% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −1.2% on Nov 3, 2025 — 4 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.05 means MARB 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 average20.92 +0.4%
- 26-day average20.90 +0.5%
- 50-day average20.87 +0.7%
- 200-day average20.56 +2.2%
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)
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.
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
- 0.13
- Last paid
- Dec 12, 2025
Last 12 months
0.13 USD / shareWhere MARB shows up
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About First Trust Merger Arbitrage ETF
The Fund seeks to provide investors with capital appreciation. Under normal market conditions, the Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by establishing long and short positions in the equity securities of companies that are involved in publicly-announced significant corporate event such as merger or acquisition.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- MARB
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US33740J2033
- CUSIP
- 33740J203
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Smart Betas
- Industry
- Long / Short
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Jun 23, 2026
Dataas of Oct 13, 2026
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