FTCS — First Trust Capital Strength ETF
Data updated: 2026-08-21
FTCS — First Trust Capital Strength ETF. United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity · $7.65B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
FTCS Fund Overview
FTCS — First Trust Capital Strength ETF is a US ETF managed by First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund, categorised as United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US ETF
- Manager: First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund
- Category: United States Large Cap Blend / Core Equity
- Assets under management: $7.65B
- 1-year return: 4.5%
- Ticker: FTCS
- SEC CIK: 0001329377
- SEC series ID: S000012555
- Share class ID: C000034137
FTCS Holdings
Top 10 holdings of First Trust Capital Strength ETF by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2.74% |
| Monster Beverage Corp. | 2.52% |
| T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. | 2.36% |
| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 2.25% |
| Cincinnati Financial Corp. | 2.24% |
| Agilent Technologies, Inc. | 2.20% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2.18% |
| Union Pacific Corp. | 2.18% |
| Visa, Inc. | 2.18% |
| Merck & Company, Inc. | 2.17% |
FTCS Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of First Trust Capital Strength ETF by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.9% |
FTCS Performance
Total returns for FTCS (as of 2026-09-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 2.2% |
| 1 year | 4.5% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 9.1% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 5.8% |
FTCS Risk Information
Risk metrics for FTCS, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.7%
FTCS Costs and Fees
FTCS costs about $53 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.53%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.53%
- Portfolio turnover: 117%
- Brokerage commissions: 1.57 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
FTCS Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, First Trust Capital Strength ETF had net outflows of $1.03B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$75.18M |
| 2026-05 | −$139.86M |
| 2026-04 | −$89.26M |
| 2026-03 | −$33.84M |
| 2026-02 | −$58.91M |
| 2026-01 | −$141.75M |
FTCS Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in First Trust Capital Strength ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
FTCS Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official First Trust Capital Strength ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-30
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-30
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-29
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-21
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-23
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-11
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.