First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund (FXZ) Stock

FXZ

First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund FXZ · AMEX

$76.94 -0.26% (-$0.20)

Summary

First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 40. The ten largest make up 45% of the fund.

Yearly costs: 0.64%
Fund size: $370.7M
Positions: 40
Dividend yield: 1.34%
Running since: 2007

What speaks for it

Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 8.7%.
It has been running since 2007.

What to watch

83% of the fund is in one sector (Basic materials).
95% of the fund is in one country (United States).
Costs of 0.64% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
In the last five years its price once dropped by 37% 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: -5.2%
3 months: +2.7%
This year: +19%
1 year: +25%
3 years: +29%
5 years: +27%
10 years: +130%

Avg. market cap: $39.1B
P/E: 19.5x
Forward P/E: 14.3x
P/S: 1.5x
P/B: 2.4x
P/FCF: 18.7x
EV/EBITDA: 9.8x
Dividend yield: 1.92%
ROIC: 12.4%
ROE: 21.4%
Gross margin: 34.5%
Operating margin: 23.0%
Net margin: 16.2%
Payout ratio: 37.5%
Net debt/EBITDA: 2.1x
Beta: 0.92

Weighted average of the 39 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
AU
Aura Minerals AUGO 5.3%
2
ST
Steel Dynamics, Inc. STLD 5.1%
3
CF
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. CF 5.0%
4
NE
Newmont NEM 4.9%
5
SC
Southern Copper Corporation SCCO 4.7%
6
AA
Alcoa Corporation AA 4.7%
7
AU
AngloGold Ashanti AU 4.7%
8
NU
Nucor Corporation NUE 3.6%
9
OL
Olin Corporation OLN 3.4%
10
ML
Mueller Industries MLI 3.3%

Positions in the fund: 40. The ten largest make up 45% of it.

Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.

Where is it spread?

One sector dominates

By sector

Basic materials 83%
Industrials 14%
Consumer cyclical 3.4%

By country

United States 95%
United Kingdom 2.6%
Netherlands 1.8%
Other countries 0.2%

By company size

Mega cap 2.6%
Large cap 67%
Mid cap 27%
Small cap 3.4%

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: Basic materials (83%). Largest country: United States (95%). Largest size group: Large cap (67%).

What does it cost me?

Expensive

This fund 0.64%

Middle of comparable ETFs 0.44%

A year from $10,000: $64.00
Over 20 years: $3,054

From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $64.00 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 $3,054.

How has it done?

Growing over the long run

+29%

-2.5%

+14%

-18%

+14%

20212022202320242025

A year on average, 10 years: +8.7%
Deepest drop: -37%
Yearly volatility: 23%

Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 8.7%. Deepest drop in these years: 37% below the earlier high.

Does it pay dividends?

Yes, it pays out

0.69

0.94

1.36

1.03

1.13

20212022202320242025

Yield: 1.34%
Payments a year: 4
Last payment: $0.25

Over the last 12 months it paid $1.03 per share, which is 1.34% of today's price. The last payment was $0.25 on Sep 24, 2026.

Is it easy to buy and sell?

Yes

Traded a day: $3.58M
Shares a day: 47K

On an average day about $3.58M of the fund changes hands.

How expensive are the companies inside?

Usual valuation

P/E of the companies inside: 19.5
Average Bulios Score: 63 out of 100

Weight by Bulios Fair Price

Undervalued 32%
Fairly valued 5.0%
Overvalued 63%

On average the companies inside trade for 19.5 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 63% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.

Counted from its largest companies (39), 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
IY IYM iShares U.S. Basic Materials ETF	United States	0.37%	$987.7M	+22%	Pays out	56%
PY PYZ Invesco Dorsey Wright Basic Materials Momentum ETF	United States	0.79%	$64.0M	+2.7%	Pays out	45%
BA BASE.TO Evolve Global Materials & Mining Enhanced Yield Index ETF	Canada	0.60%	$39.1M	+15%	Pays out	44%
RS RSPM Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF	United States	0.40%	$177.1M	+19%	Pays out	35%
VA VAW Vanguard Materials ETF	United States	0.09%	$4.50B	+10%	Pays out	34%
VM VMIAX Vanguard Materials Index Fund Admiral Shares· mutual fund	United States	0.09%	$4.52B	+10%	Pays out	34%