FCFY
First Trust S&P 500 Diversified Free Cash Flow ETF
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund
ETFIndex fund
Expense ratio1
0.60%
Net assets2
$1.27M
Holdings2
101
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
16.63%

Investment objective & strategy

As of April 30, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The First Trust S&P 500 Diversified Free Cash Flow ETF (the "Fund" ) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield, before fees and expenses, of an equity index called the S&P 500 Sector-Neutral FCF Index (the Index ).

Strategy. Under normal conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund, using an indexing investment approach, attempts to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return performance of the Index, which includes dividends paid by the common stocks in the Index. The Fund will generally employ a full replication strategy, meaning that it will normally invest in all of the securities comprising the Index in proportion to their weightings in the Index. The Index is owned and was developed by S&P Dow Jones Indices, LLC a division of S&P Global ( SPDJI or the Index Provider ). The Index Provider reserves the … Under normal conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund, using an indexing investment approach, attempts to replicate, before fees and expenses, the total return performance of the Index, which includes dividends paid by the common stocks in the Index. The Fund will generally employ a full replication strategy, meaning that it will normally invest in all of the securities comprising the Index in proportion to their weightings in the Index. The Index is owned and was developed by S&P Dow Jones Indices, LLC a division of S&P Global ( SPDJI or the Index Provider ). The Index Provider reserves the right to make exceptions when applying the methodology if the need arises to ensure that the Index continues to achieve its objective. In addition, the Index Provider may revise Index policy covering rules for selecting companies, treatment of dividends, share counts or other matters. According to the Index Provider, the Index measures the performance of companies within the S&P 500 Index that exhibit high free cash flow yield ( "FCF Yield" ) relative to other companies within the same Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS ) sector. The Index sector weights adjust to mirror the sector weights of the S&P 500 Index. Free cash flow ( "FCF" ) is the cash remaining after a company has paid day-to-day operating expenses, including interest and taxes, as well as capital expenditures. See the section entitled Free Cash Flow Yield Calculations for a description of the FCF and FCF Yield calculations. The S&P 500 Index measures the performance of the large-cap segment of the U.S. market, is considered to be a proxy of the U.S. equity market and is composed of 500 constituent companies. The Indexs starting universe consists of all the securities comprising the S&P 500 Index. The Index Provider then removes all duplicate (multiple share classes) securities and ranks all eligible companies in descending order by FCF Yield within their respective GICS sectors. Next, the Index Provider selects all companies ranked in the top 20% of the respective GICS sector, rounding up. Next, the Index Provider excludes companies with the lowest non-positive FCF Yield until such an exclusion would result in the final count of companies in a sector to be fewer than 10% of the company count within such sector in the S&P 500 Index. At each reconstitution, the Index sector weights mirror the sector weights of the S&P 500 Index, with constituents weighted by FCF Yield within each GICS sector, subject to a 0.25% floor and a 5.00% ceiling. If all selected companies within a respective GICS Sector are non-positive FCF Yield companies, the Index Provider equally distributes the weight between the companies. If selected companies within a respective GICS Sector include positive and non-positive FCF Yield companies, all companies start with the floor weight of 0.25%, redistribute the remaining weight equally to the positive FCF Yield companies. The Index is reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually, and the Fund will make corresponding changes to its portfolio shortly after the Index changes are made public. The Fund will be concentrated in an industry or a group of industries to the extent that the Index is so concentrated. As of March 31, 2025, the Index consisted of 98 securities and the Fund had significant investments in information technology companies, although this may change from time to time. The Funds investments will change as the Index changes and, as a result, the Fund may have significant investments in a given jurisdiction, investment sector or industry that it may not have had as of March 31, 2025. To the extent the Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in a given jurisdiction, investment sector or industry, the Fund may be exposed to the risks associated with that jurisdiction, investment sector or industry. The Fund is classified as non-diversified under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act ).

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC $42.30K 3.33%
ON SEMICONDUCTOR CORP $38.14K 3.00%
FOX CORP CL A $32.88K 2.59%
COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS CL A $31.29K 2.46%
HP INC $30.91K 2.43%
NETAPP INC $30.41K 2.40%
OMNICOM GROUP INC $28.09K 2.21%
ACCENTURE PLC CL A $27.17K 2.14%
SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL $25.71K 2.03%
COMCAST CORP CL A $25.67K 2.02%
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Allocation by sector

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
0
Exited
1
Increased
90
Decreased
1
Unchanged
10

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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Advisers

As of December 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
First Trust Advisors L.P. Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of April 30, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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