First Trust BuyWrite Income ETF
ALTAR
Score™		 5.1% info Recommen-
dation		 UNDERWEIGHT
2025E    2026E
P/E
ratio		 18.7x P/Sales
ratio		 3.0x
P/BV
ratio		 3.5x Div.
yield		 1.6%


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The First Trust High Income ETF is an actively managed portfolio of US large-cap stocks, with an overlay of short calls on the S&P 500.

FUND BASICS
Category US Equities
Fund Sponsor First Trust
Website www.ftportfolios.com
Inception date Jan 06, 2014
Assets (mns) $1,244
Currency USD
Expense ratio 75 bp
Distributions Monthly

FUND STRUCTURE
Regulation Open-End Investment Company
Custodian
Weighting Proprietary
Index replication
Uses derivatives Yes
Options available Yes

SECTOR BREAKDOWN

 


CONSTITUENT BREAKDOWN
No. of constituents 236
Wgt avg mkt cap (mns) $752,524
Large cap (>$10bn) 83.9%
Mid cap ($2-10bn) 14.2%
Small cap (<$2bn) 0.7%
Developed mkts 100.0%
Emerging mkts 0.1%

TOP TEN HOLDINGS
US DOLLAR 5.7 %
MICROSOFT CORP 5.4 %
NVIDIA CORP 5.0 %
APPLE INC 4.6 %
AMAZON.COM INC 2.9 %
META PLATFORMS INC 2.7 %
BROADCOM INC. 2.0 %
JOHNSON & JOHNSON 1.9 %
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC-CL B 1.8 %
ALPHABET INC. CLASS A 1.8 %
Total 33.7 %

TOP COUNTRY EXPOSURE
UNITED STATES 83.7 %
BRITAIN 3.6 %
GERMANY 1.0 %
IRELAND 1.0 %
SWITZERLAND 0.8 %
CANADA 0.7 %
CHINA 0.5 %
NETHERLANDS 0.5 %
ITALY 0.5 %
ISRAEL 0.4 %

HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE info

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Standardized Annual Returns (thru April 30)
Year-to-date 1 year 5 years 10 years Since Incep.
-6.7% 3.4% 9.6% 6.2% 6.2%

Market Correlations
versus... Beta R-squared
S&P500 0.71 92%
MSCI EAFE 0.57 62%
MSCI Emg. Mkts. 0.39 29%

Technical Indicators
Recent close $21.82
30d moving avg. $21.25
Annualized volatility 12.3%
Short interest (ETF) 0.1%
Short interest (Underlying) 3.3%
Relative strength (RSI) 48

Liquidity measures
Avg. volume (thou.) 468
Turnover 0.8%
Bid/Ask (% of price) 0.17%
ADV underlying (mns) $157,289

Distributions


FINDING ALTERNATIVE FUNDS

Below is a list of 32 potential alternatives to the First Trust BuyWrite Income ETF ETF based on the alternatives' overlap in portfolio holdings with FTHI. Consider funds with lower expense ratios and/or higher ALTAR Score™ ratings as possible alternatives.

Benchmark ticker: FTHI Expense: 75 bp ALTAR Score™: 5.1%


ALTERNATIVE ETFs BASED ON OVERLAP WITH FTHI
Ticker Fund
Name		 Overlap1
vs FTHI
(%)		 Expense
ratio
(bp)		 Savings
vs FTHI
(bp)		 ALTAR
Score™
(%)		 ALTAR
vs FTHI
(%)
XYLD Global X S&P 500 Covered Call ETF 59.2 60 15 5.0 -0.2
XRMI Global X S&P 500 Risk Managed Income ETF 59.1 60 15 5.0 -0.2
PBP Invesco S&P 500 BuyWrite ETF 58.9 49 26 5.0 -0.1
XYLG Global X S&P 500 Covered Call & Growth ETF 58.8 60 15 5.0 -0.2
XCLR Global X S&P 500 Collar 95-110 ETF 58.4 25 50 5.3 +0.2
XTR Global X S&P 500 Tail Risk ETF 58.3 26 49 5.3 +0.1
SFLR Innovator Equity Managed Floor ETF 52.0 89 -14 4.3 -0.8
ACIO Aptus Collared Investment Opportunity ETF 47.8 79 -4 4.4 -0.7
FTQI First Trust Nasdaq BuyWrite Income ETF 43.1 75 0 3.9 -1.3
EFIV SPDR S&P 500 ESG ETF 41.8 10 65 5.6 +0.5
JEPQ J.P. Morgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF 36.6 35 40 4.6 -0.6
QRMI Global X NASDAQ 100 Risk Managed Income ETF 36.5 60 15 4.2 -0.9
QYLD Global X NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF 36.5 60 15 4.2 -0.9
QYLG Global X Nasdaq 100 Covered Call & Growth ETF 36.4 60 15 4.2 -1.0
QCLR Global X NASDAQ 100 Collar 95-110 ETF 36.4 25 50 4.5 -0.6
QTR Global X NASDAQ 100 Tail Risk ETF 36.4 26 49 4.5 -0.6
NUSI Nationwide Nasdaq-100 Risk-Managed Income ETF 36.3 68 7 4.1 -1.0
MMLG First Trust Multi-Manager Large Growth ETF 33.7 85 -10 2.1 -3.0
GARP iShares MSCI USA Quality GARP ETF 33.7 15 60 4.6 -0.5
DJIA Global X Dow 30 Covered Call ETF 25.2 60 15 5.5 +0.4
DYLG Global X Dow 30 Covered Call & Growth ETF 25.0 60 15 5.4 +0.3
SIXH ETC 6 Meridian Hedged Equity Index Option ETF 24.1 82 -7 7.2 +2.1
CCOR Core Alternative ETF 22.4 107 -32 5.5 +0.4
TYLG Global X Information Technology Covered Call & Growth ETF 22.2 60 15 4.7 -0.4
DIVO Amplify CWP Enhanced Dividend Income ETF 20.9 55 20 5.4 +0.3
QQQA ProShares Nasdaq-100 Dorsey Wright Momentum ETF 16.7 58 17 2.5 -2.6
THNQ ROBO Global Artificial Intelligence ETF 14.2 68 7 2.7 -2.4
KNG FT Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF 9.4 75 0 5.8 +0.7
LCG Sterling Capital Focus Equity ETF 8.6 59 16 3.2 -1.9
XVOL Acruence Active Hedge U.S. Equity ETF 8.0 83 -8 4.4 -0.7
IDVO Amplify International Enhanced Dividend Income ETF 4.5 65 10 5.7 +0.6
GBLD Invesco MSCI Green Building ETF 0.9 39 36 9.9 +4.8

1Overlap is the percentage of holdings by weight that are identical. For example, if Fund A has a 2% position in Apple, Inc. (AAPL) and Fund B has a 5% position, their overlapping position in AAPL is 2%.

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RESULTS & ESTIMATES

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VALUATION METRICS
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Historical valuation trends

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multiple:		 First Trust BuyWrite Income ETF
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to:		 S&P500 MSCI EAFE MSCI Emg. Mkts. Other ETF:

UNDERWEIGHT
Below average appreciation potential. A rating of UNDERWEIGHT is assigned to ETFs with ALTAR Scores in the 2nd quintile (ranking higher than only 20%-40%) of their category. Typically, funds in this category consist of stocks trading at relatively expensive valuations and/or having below-average fundamentals.

ALTAR Score™


Calculation of ALTAR Score™
Avg. Return on Equity 19.8 %
Divided by: Fwd. P/BV 3.4 x
Less: Expense ratio 75 bp
Equals: ALTAR Score 5.1 %
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MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY info

CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS: FUND CONSTITUENTS
COMPOSITE
RATING		 1.57 CATEGORY
AVERAGE		 1.58
 
The composite rating is a weighted average of analysts' consensus recommendations for individual ETF constituents, based on the following scale:

BUY = 1; OVERWEIGHT = 1.5, HOLD = 2; UNDERWEIGHT = 2.5; and SELL = 3.

Readers are cautioned that because analyst ratings tend to be inflated, the composite score may be more useful as a relative measure of sentiment between funds rather than as a stand-alone recommendation.
 

 

See RATING tab for calculation of ALTAR Score™
Risk & reward. Uses std. dev. as proxy for risk, ALTAR Score™ for return forecast.
Dividends paid by constituents to the fund. May differ from actual distributions to shareholders due to constituent changes, timing issues or other factors.
Monthly returns based on changes in price plus dividends. May differ from daily returns reported by funds. See below for standardized returns.