First Trust Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index Fund FGD AMEX · Financials · United States
$33.75 +0.09% +$0.03
Summary
First Trust Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index Fund is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 105. The ten largest make up 18% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $1.59B
- Positions
- 105
- Dividend yield
- 5.67%
- Running since
- 2007
What speaks for it
- Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 18% of the fund.
- A large fund with $1.59B under management.
- It has been running since 2007.
What to watch
- Costs of 0.55% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.45%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 33% from its high.
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
- +2.1%
- 3 months
- -4.2%
- This year
- +11%
- 1 year
- +13%
- 3 years
- +65%
- 5 years
- +31%
- 10 years
- +49%
- Avg. market cap
- $29.9B
- P/E
- 9.8x
- Forward P/E
- 8.9x
- P/S
- 0.8x
- P/B
- 1.4x
- P/FCF
- 7.4x
- EV/EBITDA
- 6.4x
- Dividend yield
- 5.31%
- ROIC
- 10.3%
- ROE
- 16.0%
- Gross margin
- 28.2%
- Operating margin
- 20.3%
- Net margin
- 12.8%
- Payout ratio
- 52.0%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 2.8x
- Beta
- 0.68
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 60% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Widely spread- 1 RHRobert Half RHI 2.7%
- 2 01Hyundai Elevator Co., Ltd 017800.KS 1.9%
- 3 TETeleperformance TEP.PA 1.9%
- 4 B&M European Value Retail SA 1.8%
- 5 OMOMV AG OMV.VI 1.7%
- 6 HPHP HPQ 1.7%
- 7 HRH&R Block HRB 1.7%
- 8 Legal & General Group Plc 1.6%
- 9 Standard Life PLC 1.6%
- 10 BBBest Buy BBY 1.5%
Positions in the fund: 105. The ten largest make up 18% of it.
Composition as of Nov 6, 2026.
Where is it spread?
Spread outBy sector
- Financials 35%
- Industrials 15%
- Energy 9.8%
- Consumer cyclical 9.4%
- Communication services 8.2%
- Other 22%
By country
- United States 22%
- United Kingdom 13%
- Spain 11%
- Canada 7.5%
- Other countries 46%
By company size
- Large cap 58%
- Mid cap 34%
- Small cap 8.5%
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 86% of the fund.
Largest sector: Financials (35%). Largest country: United States (22%). Largest size group: Large cap (58%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $55.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,646
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $55.00 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 $2,646.
How has it done?
Growing slowly- A year on average, 10 years
- +4.1%
- Deepest drop
- -33%
- Yearly volatility
- 13%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 4.1%. Deepest drop in these years: 33% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 5.67%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.64
Over the last 12 months it paid $1.91 per share, which is 5.67% of today's price. The last payment was $0.64 on Sep 24, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Yes- Traded a day
- $5.29M
- Shares a day
- 157K
On an average day about $5.29M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather cheap- P/E of the companies inside
- 9.8
- Average Bulios Score
- 63 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 65%
- Fairly valued 15%
- Overvalued 20%
On average the companies inside trade for 9.8 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 65% of the rated weight comes out as undervalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 60% 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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ID IDV iShares International Select Dividend ETF | United States | 0.50% | $8.24B | +11% | Pays out | 45% |
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