Summary
First Trust Active Factor Emerging Markets ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 141. The ten largest make up 35% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.85%
- Fund size
- $79.1M
- Positions
- 141
- Dividend yield
- 2.72%
- Running since
- 2016
What speaks for it
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 5.2%.
- It has been running since 2016.
What to watch
- 44% of the fund is in one sector (Technology).
- Costs of 0.85% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 41% from its high.
- A small fund with $79.1M under management; small funds get closed more often.
- It trades little: only about $320.2K changes hands a day.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -5.3%
- 3 months
- +2.4%
- This year
- +19%
- 1 year
- +21%
- 3 years
- +81%
- 5 years
- +36%
- 10 years
- +67%
- Avg. market cap
- $530.8B
- P/E
- 11.0x
- Forward P/E
- 9.7x
- P/S
- 1.1x
- P/B
- 1.9x
- P/FCF
- 11.6x
- EV/EBITDA
- 7.5x
- Dividend yield
- 1.96%
- ROIC
- 18.2%
- ROE
- 30.1%
- Gross margin
- 43.2%
- Operating margin
- 31.0%
- Net margin
- 27.2%
- Payout ratio
- 21.5%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- -0.2x
- Beta
- 0.73
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 70% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Moderately concentrated- 1 23Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 2330.TW 14%
- 2 00Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 005930.KS 6.5%
- 3 00SK hynix Inc. 000660.KS 2.8%
- 4 30Unimicron Technology Corp. 3037.TW 2.0%
- 5 13Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited 1398.HK 1.9%
- 6 33Bank of Communications Co., Ltd. 3328.HK 1.7%
- 7 36Jentech Precision Industrial Co., Ltd 3653.TW 1.7%
- 8 09Lenovo Group Limited 0992.HK 1.6%
- 9 00Kia Corporation 000270.KS 1.5%
- 10 KBKasikornbank Public Company Limited KBANK.BK 1.5%
Positions in the fund: 141. The ten largest make up 35% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Technology 44%
- Financials 17%
- Consumer cyclical 8.7%
- Industrials 6.9%
- Energy 5.8%
- Other 18%
By country
- Taiwan 32%
- South Korea 16%
- China 12%
- India 11%
- Other countries 28%
By company size
- Mega cap 31%
- Large cap 50%
- Mid cap 18%
- Small cap 1.2%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M. Counted from the companies that make up 87% of the fund.
Largest sector: Technology (44%). Largest country: Taiwan (32%). Largest size group: Large cap (50%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $85.00
- Over 20 years
- $3,981
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $85.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $3,981.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +5.2%
- Deepest drop
- -41%
- Yearly volatility
- 20%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 5.2%. Deepest drop in these years: 41% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 2.72%
- Payments a year
- 3
- Last payment
- $0.67
Over the last 12 months it paid $2.49 per share, which is 2.72% of today's price. The last payment was $0.67 on Sep 24, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
It trades little- Traded a day
- $320.2K
- Shares a day
- 3.5K
On an average day about $320.2K of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather cheap- P/E of the companies inside
- 11.0
- Average Bulios Score
- 71 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 31%
- Fairly valued 8.2%
- Overvalued 60%
On average the companies inside trade for 11.0 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 60% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 70% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Similar funds
Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RW RWEM Rayliant Wilshire NxtGen Emerging Markets Equity ETF | United States | 0.52% | $2.68B | +17% | Pays out | 36% |
SE SEEM SEI Exchange Traded Funds - SEI Select Emerging Markets Equity ETF | United States | 0.60% | $638.7M | +20% | Pays out | 35% |
5M 5MVL.DE iShares Edge MSCI EM Value Factor UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.40% | $1.73B | +48% | Reinvests | 35% |
EM EMKT.AX VanEck - MSCI Multifactor Emerging Markets Equity ETF | Australia | 0.69% | $570.7M | +10.0% | Pays out | 34% |
GE GEMQ Goldman Sachs Data Enhanced Emerging Markets Equity ETF | United States | 0.40% | $9.08M | - | - | 33% |
DI DIEM Franklin Emerging Market Core Dividend Tilt Index ETF | United States | 0.19% | $89.8M | +24% | Pays out | 33% |