Summary
First Trust Water ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 37. The ten largest make up 42% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $1.80B
- Positions
- 37
- Dividend yield
- 0.71%
- Running since
- 2007
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $1.80B under management.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 12%.
- It has been running since 2007.
What to watch
- 58% of the fund is in one sector (Industrials).
- 92% of the fund is in one country (United States).
- Costs of 0.50% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.43%).
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
- +7.4%
- 3 months
- +3.2%
- This year
- +3.3%
- 1 year
- +0.8%
- 3 years
- +39%
- 5 years
- +23%
- 10 years
- +214%
- Avg. market cap
- $22.5B
- P/E
- 25.0x
- Forward P/E
- 19.7x
- P/S
- 2.4x
- P/B
- 3.6x
- P/FCF
- 23.7x
- EV/EBITDA
- 16.2x
- Dividend yield
- 1.20%
- ROIC
- 12.2%
- ROE
- 19.8%
- Gross margin
- 42.8%
- Operating margin
- 18.0%
- Net margin
- 13.3%
- Payout ratio
- 30.1%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 2.1x
- Beta
- 0.99
Weighted average of the 36 largest companies, which make up 100% 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 AAgilent Technologies A 4.5%
- 2 VLVeralto VLTO 4.4%
- 3 WAWaters WAT 4.4%
- 4 RORoper Technologies, Inc. ROP 4.3%
- 5 ECEcolab Inc. ECL 4.2%
- 6 FEFerguson plc FERG 4.2%
- 7 AWAmerican Water Works AWK 4.1%
- 8 JJacobs Engineering J 4.1%
- 9 IDIDEXX Laboratories IDXX 3.9%
- 10 MAMasco MAS 3.8%
Positions in the fund: 37. The ten largest make up 42% of it.
Composition as of Oct 31, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Industrials 58%
- Healthcare 13%
- Utilities 11%
- Technology 11%
- Basic materials 5.5%
- Other 1.8%
By country
- United States 92%
- Canada 3.9%
- United Kingdom 2.7%
- Brazil 1.6%
- Other countries 0.09%
By company size
- Large cap 66%
- Mid cap 34%
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.
Largest sector: Industrials (58%). Largest country: United States (92%). Largest size group: Large cap (66%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $50.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,416
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $50.00 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 $2,416.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +12%
- Deepest drop
- -29%
- Yearly volatility
- 16%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 12%. Deepest drop in these years: 29% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 0.71%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.19
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.79 per share, which is 0.71% of today's price. The last payment was $0.19 on Sep 24, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Yes- Traded a day
- $5.46M
- Shares a day
- 49K
On an average day about $5.46M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather expensive- P/E of the companies inside
- 25.0
- Average Bulios Score
- 67 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 11%
- Fairly valued 4.9%
- Overvalued 84%
On average the companies inside trade for 25.0 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 84% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (36), which make up 100% 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PH PHO Invesco Water Resources ETF | United States | 0.59% | $2.05B | +3.2% | Pays out | 75% |
WA WAT.PA Amundi MSCI Water UCITS ETF Dist | France | 0.60% | $1.80B | +7.2% | Pays out | 39% |
LY LYM8.DE Amundi MSCI Water UCITS ETF Dist | France | 0.60% | $1.80B | +7.1% | Pays out | 39% |
PI PIO Invesco Global Water ETF | United States | 0.75% | $265.5M | -2.2% | Pays out | 38% |
AQ AQWA Global X - Clean Water ETF | United States | 0.50% | $21.0M | -4.7% | Pays out | 37% |
XM XMLC.DE L&G Clean Water UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.49% | $654.3M | +5.1% | Reinvests | 36% |
