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About First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund
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Inception date
Feb 15, 2012
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
FEMS tries to outperform the competition by using a multi-factor selection methodology to choose the best-performing stocks. It makes sizable country bets, notably excluding South Korea. FEMS scores each potential holding by both value (book value-to-price, cash flow-to-price and return on assets) and growth (3-, 6- and 12-month price appreciation, sales-to-price and 1-year sales growth) characteristics, then ranks stocks by whichever trait scores highest. It takes the top 200 names, broken into equal-weighted quintiles, weighting higher-scoring quintiles more heavily. The fund makes many sector bets, but those bets are liable to change with time, so its exposure bears watching.
Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Stock breakdown by region
Displays a symbol's price movements over previous years to identify recurring trends.