First Trust Capital Strength ETF (FTCS)

NASDAQ: FTCS · Real-Time Price · USD
89.12
-0.90 (-1.00%)
Oct 31, 2024, 4:00 PM EDT - Market closed
-1.00%
Assets $8.90B
Expense Ratio 0.54%
PE Ratio 23.13
Shares Out 98.70M
Dividend (ttm) $1.20
Dividend Yield 1.34%
Ex-Dividend Date Sep 26, 2024
Payout Ratio 30.94%
1-Year Return +23.49%
Volume 185,463
Open 89.73
Previous Close 90.02
Day's Range 89.05 - 89.89
52-Week Low 73.49
52-Week High 93.05
Beta 0.85
Holdings 51
Inception Date Jul 6, 2006

About FTCS

Fund Home Page

The First Trust Capital Strength ETF (FTCS) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the NASDAQ Capital Strength index. The fund tracks an equally weighted US large-cap equity index targeting companies with a strong cash balance, low long-term debt, and high return on equity. FTCS was launched on Jul 6, 2006 and is issued by First Trust.

Asset Class Equity
Category Large Blend
Region North America
Stock Exchange NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol FTCS
ETF Provider First Trust
Index Tracked NASDAQ Capital Strength Index

Top 10 Holdings

20.90% of assets
Name Symbol Weight
Aon plc AON 2.14%
Microsoft Corporation MSFT 2.13%
Packaging Corporation of America PKG 2.12%
Snap-on Incorporated SNA 2.11%
Electronic Arts Inc. EA 2.08%
Walmart Inc. WMT 2.07%
AbbVie Inc. ABBV 2.07%
Paychex, Inc. PAYX 2.07%
Costco Wholesale Corporation COST 2.06%
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. EXPD 2.05%
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Dividends

Ex-Dividend Amount Pay Date
Sep 26, 2024 $0.2566 Sep 30, 2024
Jun 27, 2024 $0.2843 Jun 28, 2024
Mar 21, 2024 $0.2247 Mar 28, 2024
Dec 22, 2023 $0.4313 Dec 29, 2023
Sep 22, 2023 $0.215 Sep 29, 2023
Jun 27, 2023 $0.2368 Jun 30, 2023
Full Dividend History

News

FTCS: Cash-Rich Quality Stories Still Lag The Market

First Trust Capital Strength ETF takes a smart-beta, concentrated approach to quality investing. This is an alluring strategy at first blush, yet returns appeared to be not as strong as investors migh...

8 months ago - Seeking Alpha

FTCS: Finally, This ETF's Style Is Timely!

FTCS is an $8.5 billion ETF that somehow flies under the radar. It shouldn't. The market is likely to again reward capital strength over sheer stock size, which bodes well for FTCS in 2024. I recently...

11 months ago - Seeking Alpha

As FTCS Disappoints Again, Let's Discuss The Factor Story

Tracking the Capital Strength index, FTCS adheres to the highest standards of quality, representing cash-rich companies with strong capital efficiency. Alas, FTCS has significantly underperformed the ...

1 year ago - Seeking Alpha

FTCS: How This Capital Strength ETF's Fortunes Improved

FTCS selects 50 large-cap stocks with high cash on hand, low debt loads, high returns on equity, and low realized volatility. Since 2006, it's delivered comparable returns to SPY. Quarterly reconstitu...

1 year ago - Seeking Alpha

FTCS: Grossly Profitable Companies, Yet Short On Value, Not A Buy

FTCS is a solid quality-centered fund I attempt to cover at least on a quarterly basis. Since my December 2022 article, the fund has declined by about 5.6%, partly proving that my assessment of the va...

1 year ago - Seeking Alpha

FTCS: Reassessing Expensive, Quality-Heavy, Growth-Light Equity Mix

FTCS is an index-based fund offering concentrated exposure to U.S. stocks boasting solid cash on the balance sheet, with moderate debt and robust return on equity. FTCS has surprised us to the upside ...

1 year ago - Seeking Alpha

FTCS: Capital Strength Focused ETF Has Its Flaws

FTCS holds 50 large-cap companies in equal weight based on cash on hand, debt as a percentage of market capitalization, return on equity, and volatility. Reconstitutions and rebalancings occur quarter...

2 years ago - Seeking Alpha

First Trust Capital Strength ETF: Let Us Be Skeptical

FTCS pursues cash-rich, debt-light large-cap U.S. companies capable of delivering returns on equity of at least 15%. FTCS keeps portfolio risk in check adding a volatility screen to its strategy.

2 years ago - Seeking Alpha

FTCS: Unique Core Portfolio With Strength Of Capital That You've Never Heard Of

Portfolio focuses on stocks with high quality balance sheets, substantial ROE, and low volatility. “Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships”. First Trust Capital Stren...

2 years ago - Seeking Alpha

Q3 2021 Investment Style Ratings For ETFs And Mutual Funds

Only the Large Cap Blend, All Cap Value, and All Cap Blend styles earn Attractive-or-better ratings. The primary driver behind an Attractive fund rating is good portfolio management, or good stock pic...

3 years ago - Seeking Alpha

ETF Odds & Ends: Another Fund Converts

Plus, additional ETF changes and the launch of two more actively managed ETFs.

3 years ago - ETFcom

Best And Worst Q1 2021: Large Cap Blend ETFs And Mutual Funds

The Large Cap Blend style ranks second in Q1'21. Based on an aggregation of ratings of 61 ETFs and 660 mutual funds in the Large Cap Blend style.

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4 years ago - Seeking Alpha

4 Top Advisor ETF Picks For 2021

Financial advisors weigh in on what ETFs and what themes they seeing working next year.

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Sometimes it's the little things that bring in the assets. 

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