FVD
First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund
ETFIndex fund
Expense ratio1
0.61%
Net assets2
$8.09B
Holdings2
237
Category
US Equity
2025 return3
8.18%

Investment objective & strategy

As of April 30, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund (the Fund ) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield (before the Funds fees and expenses) of an equity index called the Value Line Dividend Index (the Index ).

Strategy. The Fund will normally invest at least 90% of its net assets (including investment borrowings) in the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund, using an indexing investment approach, attempts to replicate, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Index. The Index is developed by Value Line Publishing, LLC (the Index Provider ) and calculated by ICE Data Indices, LLC as the calculation agent on behalf of the Index Provider. The Index begins with the universe of stocks that the Index Provider gives a Safety TM Ranking of #1 or #2 using the Index Providers proprietary Value Line Safety TM Ranking System (the Safety Ranking System ). All registered investment companies, limited partnerships and foreign securities not listed in … The Fund will normally invest at least 90% of its net assets (including investment borrowings) in the securities that comprise the Index. The Fund, using an indexing investment approach, attempts to replicate, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Index. The Index is developed by Value Line Publishing, LLC (the Index Provider ) and calculated by ICE Data Indices, LLC as the calculation agent on behalf of the Index Provider. The Index begins with the universe of stocks that the Index Provider gives a Safety TM Ranking of #1 or #2 using the Index Providers proprietary Value Line Safety TM Ranking System (the Safety Ranking System ). All registered investment companies, limited partnerships and foreign securities not listed in the U.S. are removed from this universe. From those stocks, the Index Provider selects those companies with a higher than average dividend yield, as compared to the indicated dividend yield of the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Stock Price Index. Any securities that do not meet the size requirements of the Index are eliminated and the remaining securities are equally weighted. According to information published by Value Line, the Safety Ranking System seeks to measure the total risk of a stock relative to the approximately 1,700 other stocks comprising the Indexs initial universe. The Safety Ranking System assigns a rank of #1 (safest) to #5 (riskiest) to each of the securities in the initial universe based on each securitys expected total risk relative to the other securities in the universe. According to information published by Value Line, the Safety Rank is derived from a stocks price stability score and financial strength rating. A stocks price stability score is based on a ranking of the standard deviation (a measure of volatility) of weekly percent changes in the price of a stock. A companys financial strength rating is the Index Providers measure of the companys financial condition. The Index excludes all securities that are not assigned a Safety Rank of #1 or #2. Because the Safety Ranking System assigns ranks weekly and the Index reconstitutes monthly, the Index may, for the remainder of any given monthly period, contain securities that are no longer assigned a Safety Rank of #1 or #2. The Fund may invest in common stocks and depositary receipts of small, mid and large capitalization companies. The Index is rebalanced and reconstituted monthly and the Fund will make corresponding changes to its portfolio shortly after the Index changes are made public. The Indexs monthly rebalance and reconstitution schedule may cause the Fund to experience a higher rate of portfolio turnover. 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 was composed of 223 securities and the Fund had significant investments in industrial 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 jurisdictions or investment sectors 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 or investment sector, the Fund may be exposed to the risks associated with that jurisdiction or investment sector.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
ENTERGY CORP $37.59M 0.46%
RIO TINTO PLC SPON ADR RIO US $36.85M 0.46%
SANOFI SPON ADR SNY US $36.49M 0.45%
America Movil S.A.B. de C.V. SPON ADS RP CL B AMX US $36.47M 0.45%
ASTRAZENECA PLC $36.33M 0.45%
LANDSTAR SYSTEM INC $36.14M 0.45%
BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO $36.08M 0.45%
GSK plc SPONSORED ADR GSK US $35.99M 0.44%
ABBVIE INC $35.98M 0.44%
THE CAMPBELL'S COMPANY $35.96M 0.44%
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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
12
Exited
13
Increased
71
Decreased
154
Unchanged
0

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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