FTLS: First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF
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FTLS at a glance
FTLS returned +6.76% over the past year and +9.07% a year over five years. Its worst drop in that year was -5.16%, smaller than 82% of ETFs on Redstone, and its Sharpe ratio of 0.38 beats 48% of ETFs on Redstone. It yields 0.89%.
Current Drawdown
-3.92%
Rolling Volatility
13.47%
Dividends
FTLS dividends
Yield
0.89%
Paid, past year
$0.67
Pays
Quarterly
Growth a year
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Per share, by year
Yearly return over 5 years
FTLS paid $0.67 a share over the past year, every quarter. With dividends reinvested it returned +9.07% a year over five years, against +7.85% on price alone.
›All 18 payments since Dec 23, 2021
- Sep 24, 2026$0.1825
- Jun 25, 2026$0.2073
- Mar 26, 2026$0.0634
- Dec 12, 2025$0.2132
- Sep 25, 2025$0.1752
- Jun 26, 2025$0.2199
- Mar 27, 2025$0.1512
- Dec 13, 2024$0.2876
- Sep 26, 2024$0.2648
- Jun 27, 2024$0.3086
- Mar 21, 2024$0.1284
- Dec 22, 2023$0.2981
- Sep 22, 2023$0.2057
- Jun 27, 2023$0.2047
- Mar 24, 2023$0.1286
- Dec 23, 2022$0.33
- Sep 23, 2022$0.0662
- Dec 23, 2021$0.0033
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Profile
About FTLS
The First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF’s investment objective is to seek to provide investors with long-term total return. Under normal conditions, the Fund will expose at least 80% of its net assets (including investment borrowings) to U.S. exchange-listed equity securities and/or U.S. exchange-traded funds that provide exposure to U.S. exchange-listed equity securities.
From its prospectus, filed Mar 2, 2026- Category
- Alternatives
- Expense ratio
- 1.38%
- Fund size
- $2.6B
- Inception
- Sep 2014
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