First Trust Financials AlphaDEX Fund (FXO) Stock

FXO

First Trust Financials AlphaDEX Fund FXO · AMEX

$62.46 -0.86% (-$0.54)

Summary

First Trust Financials AlphaDEX Fund is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 106. The ten largest make up 18% of the fund.

Yearly costs: 0.60%
Fund size: $1.05B
Positions: 106
Dividend yield: 2.24%
Running since: 2007

What speaks for it

Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 18% of the fund.
A large fund with $1.05B under management.
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 10%.
It has been running since 2007.

What to watch

95% of the fund is in one sector (Financials).
88% 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 31% 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.

1 month: -1.2%
3 months: -2.9%
This year: +4.4%
1 year: +10%
3 years: +75%
5 years: +31%
10 years: +161%

Avg. market cap: $52.7B
P/E: 8.3x
Forward P/E: 10.2x
P/S: 1.5x
P/B: 1.3x
P/FCF: 6.8x
EV/EBITDA: -
Dividend yield: 3.17%
ROIC: -
ROE: 17.7%
Gross margin: -
Operating margin: 29.6%
Net margin: 22.0%
Payout ratio: 26.4%
Net debt/EBITDA: -
Beta: 0.96

Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 69% 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
CH
Chime Financial, Inc. Class A Common Stock CHYM 1.8%
2
AL
The Allstate Corporation ALL 1.8%
3
HI
The Hartford Financial Services HIG 1.8%
4
RN
RenaissanceRe RNR 1.8%
5
AC
Arch Capital Group ACGL 1.8%
6
AI
American International Group, Inc. AIG 1.7%
7
WT
White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. WTM 1.7%
8
MT
MGIC Investment Corporation MTG 1.7%
9
MK
Markel Corporation MKL 1.7%
10
CI
Cincinnati Financial CINF 1.7%

Positions in the fund: 106. The ten largest make up 18% of it.

Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.

Where is it spread?

One sector dominates

By sector

Financials 95%
Real estate 3.7%
Technology 1.5%
Other 0.01%

By country

United States 88%
Bermuda 8.6%
Switzerland 1.0%
Kazakhstan 0.7%
Other countries 1.7%

By company size

Mega cap 3.8%
Large cap 58%
Mid cap 38%

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: Financials (95%). Largest country: United States (88%). Largest size group: Large cap (58%).

What does it cost me?

Expensive

This fund 0.60%

Middle of comparable ETFs 0.44%

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

+35%

-11%

+5.7%

+25%

+11%

20212022202320242025

A year on average, 10 years: +10%
Deepest drop: -31%
Yearly volatility: 15%

Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 10%. Deepest drop in these years: 31% below the earlier high.

Does it pay dividends?

Yes, it pays out

0.88

1.02

1.29

1.07

20212022202320242025

Yield: 2.24%
Payments a year: 4
Last payment: $0.33

Over the last 12 months it paid $1.40 per share, which is 2.24% of today's price. The last payment was $0.33 on Sep 24, 2026.

Is it easy to buy and sell?

Yes

Traded a day: $3.48M
Shares a day: 56K

On an average day about $3.48M of the fund changes hands.

How expensive are the companies inside?

Rather cheap

P/E of the companies inside: 8.3
Average Bulios Score: 73 out of 100

Weight by Bulios Fair Price

Undervalued 68%
Fairly valued 8.6%
Overvalued 23%

On average the companies inside trade for 8.3 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 68% of the rated weight comes out as undervalued.

Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 69% 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
KI KIE State Street SPDR S&P Insurance ETF	United States	0.35%	$442.9M	+9.9%	Pays out	40%
RS RSPF Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Financials ETF	United States	0.40%	$275.6M	+5.8%	Pays out	34%
IY IYF iShares U.S. Financials ETF	United States	0.37%	$3.79B	+5.0%	Pays out	32%
IA IAK iShares U.S. Insurance ETF	United States	0.37%	$531.8M	+15%	Pays out	27%
VF VFH Vanguard Financials ETF	United States	0.09%	$13.9B	+4.9%	Pays out	26%
VF VFAIX Vanguard Financials Index Fund Admiral Shares· mutual fund	United States	0.09%	$13.9B	+4.9%	Pays out	26%