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 44% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.64%
- Fund size
- $357.4M
- Positions
- 40
- Dividend yield
- 1.38%
- 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).
- 98% 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.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -3.7%
- 3 months
- -5.9%
- This year
- +17%
- 1 year
- +30%
- 3 years
- +25%
- 5 years
- +23%
- 10 years
- +131%
- Avg. market cap
- $37.2B
- P/E
- 16.5x
- Forward P/E
- 13.8x
- P/S
- 1.4x
- P/B
- 2.3x
- P/FCF
- 16.9x
- EV/EBITDA
- 9.3x
- Dividend yield
- 1.96%
- ROIC
- 11.7%
- ROE
- 21.0%
- Gross margin
- 32.0%
- Operating margin
- 21.7%
- Net margin
- 16.7%
- Payout ratio
- 32.4%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 1.5x
- 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 STSteel Dynamics, Inc. STLD 5.6%
- 2 CFCF Industries Holdings, Inc. CF 5.3%
- 3 AAAlcoa Corporation AA 4.6%
- 4 NENewmont NEM 4.5%
- 5 SCSouthern Copper Corporation SCCO 4.3%
- 6 AUAngloGold Ashanti AU 4.2%
- 7 AUAura Minerals AUGO 4.1%
- 8 NUNucor Corporation NUE 4.0%
- 9 OLOlin Corporation OLN 3.9%
- 10 EMEastman EMN 3.5%
Positions in the fund: 40. The ten largest make up 44% of it.
Composition as of Oct 31, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Basic materials 83%
- Industrials 14%
- Consumer cyclical 3.4%
By country
- United States 98%
- Canada 1.8%
By company size
- Mega cap 2.8%
- Large cap 63%
- 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: Basic materials (83%). Largest country: United States (98%). Largest size group: Large cap (63%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- 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- 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- Yield
- 1.38%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.25
Over the last 12 months it paid $1.03 per share, which is 1.38% 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
- $3.15M
- Shares a day
- 42K
On an average day about $3.15M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Usual valuation- P/E of the companies inside
- 16.5
- Average Bulios Score
- 64 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 22%
- Fairly valued 12%
- Overvalued 66%
On average the companies inside trade for 16.5 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 66% 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% | $969.4M | +28% | Pays out | 56% |
PY PYZ Invesco Dorsey Wright Basic Materials Momentum ETF | United States | 0.79% | $62.8M | +9.7% | Pays out | 46% |
RS RSPM Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF | United States | 0.40% | $183.6M | +28% | Pays out | 35% |
BA BASE.TO Evolve Global Materials & Mining Enhanced Yield Index ETF | Canada | 0.60% | $37.4M | +14% | Pays out | 35% |
VA VAW Vanguard Materials ETF | United States | 0.09% | $4.49B | +19% | Pays out | 34% |
VM VMIAX Vanguard Materials Index Fund Admiral Shares· mutual fund | United States | 0.09% | $4.48B | +19% | Pays out | 34% |
