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First Trust Technology AlphaDEX Fund FXL · AMEX

$215.73 +1.63% (+$3.46)

Summary

First Trust Technology AlphaDEX Fund is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 111. The ten largest make up 17% of the fund.

Yearly costs
0.60%
Fund size
$2.69B
Positions
111
Dividend yield
0.00%
Running since
2007

What speaks for it

  • Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 17% of the fund.
  • A large fund with $2.69B under management.
  • Easy to buy and sell: about $28.0M changes hands a day.
  • Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 19%.
  • It has been running since 2007.

What to watch

  • 90% of the fund is in one sector (Technology).
  • 96% of the fund is in one country (United States).
  • Costs of 0.60% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
  • In the last five years its price once dropped by 39% 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
-1.5%
3 months
+8.2%
This year
+26%
1 year
+27%
3 years
+93%
5 years
+62%
10 years
+492%
Avg. market cap
$373.5B
P/E
22.4x
Forward P/E
17.4x
P/S
2.8x
P/B
4.2x
P/FCF
21.1x
EV/EBITDA
17.0x
Dividend yield
0.46%
ROIC
12.2%
ROE
25.6%
Gross margin
60.9%
Operating margin
15.1%
Net margin
15.0%
Payout ratio
10.2%
Net debt/EBITDA
0.6x
Beta
1.26

Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 66% 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. 1
    TE
    Atlassian TEAM 1.8%
  2. 2
    CT
    Cognizant CTSH 1.8%
  3. 3
    EP
    EPAM Systems EPAM 1.8%
  4. 4
    PT
    PTC PTC 1.7%
  5. 5
    NI
    NIQ Global Intelligence Plc NIQ 1.7%
  6. 6
    MB
    Mobility Global Inc MBGL 1.7%
  7. 7
    ZM
    Zoom ZM 1.6%
  8. 8
    RN
    RingCentral, Inc. RNG 1.6%
  9. 9
    RB
    Rubrik RBRK 1.6%
  10. 10
    NT
    NetApp NTAP 1.5%

Positions in the fund: 111. The ten largest make up 17% of it.

Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.

Where is it spread?

One sector dominates

By sector

By country

By company size

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: Technology (90%). Largest country: United States (96%). Largest size group: Large cap (57%).

What does it cost me?

Expensive
A year from $10,000
$60.00
Over 20 years
$2,873

From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $60.00 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 $2,873.

How has it done?

Growing over the long run
A year on average, 10 years
+19%
Deepest drop
-39%
Yearly volatility
27%

Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 19%. Deepest drop in these years: 39% below the earlier high.

Does it pay dividends?

Yes, it pays out
Yield
0.00%
Payments a year
1
Last payment
$0.01

Over the last 12 months it paid $0.01 per share, which is 0.00% of today's price. The last payment was $0.01 on Sep 25, 2025.

Is it easy to buy and sell?

Very easy
Traded a day
$28.0M
Shares a day
130K

On an average day about $28.0M of the fund changes hands.

How expensive are the companies inside?

Usual valuation
P/E of the companies inside
22.4
Average Bulios Score
64 out of 100

Weight by Bulios Fair Price

On average the companies inside trade for 22.4 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 77% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.

Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 66% 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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FH
FHQ.TO First Trust AlphaDEX U.S. Technology Sector Index ETF
Canada 0.70% $26.2M +34% Reinvests 98%
RS
RSPT Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Technology ETF
United States 0.40% $4.29B +41% Pays out 43%
IY
IYW iShares U.S. Technology ETF
United States 0.37% $24.4B +27% Pays out 31%
JT
JTEK JPMorgan U.S. Tech Leaders ETF
United States 0.65% $4.44B +6.3% Reinvests 30%
IG
IGM iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF
United States 0.37% $10.8B +24% Pays out 29%
WT
WTEJ.DE WisdomTree Cloud Computing UCITS ETF - USD Acc
Ireland 0.40% $413.9M +27% Reinvests 29%

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