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About First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX
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Inception date
May 8, 2007
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Qualified dividends
Primary advisor
First Trust Advisors LP
Distributor
First Trust Portfolios LP
FXH tracks a quant-driven index that attempts to achieve excess returns by selecting health care stocks based on growth and value factors, and equal-weighting them in tiers. The portfolio offers noteworthy mid-cap exposure, downplaying familiar large-cap names relative to cap-weighted peer funds. Additionally, FXH underweights pharmaceuticals relative to the market, but allows a significant exposure to biotechnology and healthcare providers. Overall, this fund offers a smart beta approach to the US health care space, tilting away from big pharma and towards other facets of health care. The index is reconstituted and rebalanced on a quarterly basis.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Health Technology
Health Services
Stocks99.84%
Health Technology63.03%
Health Services26.10%
Technology Services4.20%
Distribution Services3.69%
Commercial Services2.81%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.16%
Mutual fund0.16%
Stock breakdown by region
North America92.55%
Europe7.45%
Latin America0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history