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First Trust Nasdaq BuyWrite Income ETF

Ticker
FTQI
NAV
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The NAV represents the fund's net assets (assets less liabilities) divided by the fund's outstanding shares.
$19.06
Market Price
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Fund shares are purchased and sold on an exchange at their market price rather than net asset value (NAV), which may cause the shares to trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (discount).
$19.07
Pricing as of 4/2/2025
Overview
Performance
Pricing
Holdings
Distributions

Overview

Fund Objective & Strategy

The Fund's investment objective is to provide current income. The Fund will pursue its investment objective by investing primarily in equity securities listed on U.S. exchanges and by utilizing an "option strategy" consisting of writing (selling) U.S. exchange-traded covered call options on the Nasdaq-100 Index. The Fund will employ an option strategy in which it will write U.S. exchange-traded covered call options on the Nasdaq-100 Index in order to seek additional cash flow in the form of premiums on the options. A premium is the income received by an investor who sells an option contract to another party and may be distributed to shareholders on a monthly basis.

There can be no assurance that the Fund's investment objectives will be achieved.

Fund Facts

CUSIP
33738R407
ISIN
US33738R4074
Exchange
Nasdaq
Inception
1/6/2014
Inception Share Price
$19.93
Inception NAV
$19.93
Fiscal Year-End
12/31
Fund Type
Equity Income
Intraday NAV
FTQIIV
Investment Advisor
First Trust Advisors L.P.
Investor Servicing Agent
Bank of New York Mellon Corp

Current Fund Data

As Of 4/2/2025
Closing NAV
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The NAV represents the fund's net assets (assets less liabilities) divided by the fund's outstanding shares.
$19.06
Closing Market Price
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Fund shares are purchased and sold on an exchange at their market price rather than net asset value (NAV), which may cause the shares to trade at a price greater than NAV (premium) or less than NAV (discount).
$19.07
30-Day Median Bid/Ask Spread
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The median bid-ask spread is calculated by identifying the national best bid and national best offer ("NBBO") for the fund as of the end of each 10 second interval during each trading day of the last 30 calendar days and dividing the difference between each such bid and offer by the midpoint of the NBBO. The median of those values is identified and that value is expressed as a percentage rounded to the nearest hundredth.
0.15%
Bid/Ask Midpoint
$19.06
Bid/Ask Premium
0.00%
Total Net Assets
$578,394,142
Outstanding Shares
30,350,002
Daily Volume
119,928
Average 30-Day Daily Volume
208,291
Closing Market Price 52-Week High/Low
$21.46 / $18.72
Closing NAV 52-Week High/Low
$21.44 / $18.69

Fees And Expenses

As Of 2/3/2025
Total Expense Ratio
0.75%

Yield Information

As Of 3/31/2025
30-Day SEC Yield
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The 30-day SEC yield is calculated by dividing the net investment income per share earned during the most recent 30-day period by the maximum offering price per share on the last day of the period and includes the effects of fee waivers and expense reimbursements, if applicable.
0.29%
12-Month Distribution Rate
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12-Month Distribution Rate is calculated by dividing the sum of the fund's trailing 12-month ordinary distributions paid or declared by the NAV price. Distribution rates may vary.
13.04%
Distribution Rate
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Distribution Rate is calculated by dividing the fund's most recent ordinary distribution paid or declared, on an annualized basis, by the NAV price. Distribution rates may vary.
13.20%

Performance

Hypothetical Growth of $10,000 Since Inception *

As Of 4/2/2025
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Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results and current performance may be higher or lower than performance quoted. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate and shares when sold or redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

Month End Performance

As Of 2/28/2025
Fund Performance * 3 Month YTD 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Since Inception†
Net Asset Value (NAV) -0.98% -0.29% 12.43% 9.22% 7.69% 5.50% 5.70%
Market Price -1.07% -0.29% 12.53% 9.19% 7.71% 5.51% 5.71%
               
Index Performance ** 3 Month YTD 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Since Inception†
Cboe Nasdaq-100 BuyWrite™ Index 3.32% 0.11% 18.79% 10.38% 9.75% 8.67% 8.25%
Nasdaq-100 Index® -0.04% -0.50% 16.63% 14.58% 20.78% 17.89% 18.49%
S&P 500® Index -0.97% 1.44% 18.41% 12.55% 16.85% 12.98% 13.24%

† Inception Date is 1/6/2014

Quarter End Performance

As Of 12/31/2024
Fund Performance * 3 Month YTD 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Since Inception†
Net Asset Value (NAV) 4.65% 17.89% 17.89% 10.05% 6.52% 5.86% 5.81%
Market Price 4.64% 17.93% 17.93% 10.02% 6.56% 5.87% 5.82%
               
Index Performance ** 3 Month YTD 1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Since Inception†
Cboe Nasdaq-100 BuyWrite™ Index 7.43% 23.94% 23.94% 7.53% 8.03% 8.76% 8.36%
Nasdaq-100 Index® 4.93% 25.88% 25.88% 9.71% 20.18% 18.53% 18.84%
S&P 500® Index 2.41% 25.02% 25.02% 8.94% 14.53% 13.10% 13.30%

† Inception Date is 1/6/2014

* Performance data quoted represents past performance. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results and current performance may be higher or lower than performance quoted. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate and shares when sold or redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

Returns do not represent the returns you would receive if you traded shares at other times. Market Price returns are determined by using the midpoint of the national best bid offer price ("NBBO") as of the time that the fund's NAV is calculated. Returns are average annualized total returns, except those for periods of less than one year, which are cumulative.

** Performance information for each listed index is for illustrative purposes only and does not represent actual fund performance. Indexes do not charge management fees or brokerage expenses, and no such fees or expenses were deducted from the performance shown. Indexes are unmanaged and an investor cannot invest directly in an index.

On May 11, 2022 the fund converted from the First Trust Hedged BuyWrite Income ETF to the First Trust Nasdaq BuyWrite Income ETF. Therefore, the fund's performance and historical returns shown for the periods prior to this date are not necessarily indicative of the performance that the fund would have generated.

Cboe Nasdaq-100 BuyWrite™ Index - The Index measures the total rate of return of a Nasdaq-100 covered call strategy that consists of holding a portfolio indexed to the Nasdaq-100 and selling a succession of one-month at-the-money Nasdaq-100 (NDX) call options listed on the PHLX exchange.

Nasdaq-100 Index® - The Index includes 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market based on market capitalization.

S&P 500® Index - The Index is an unmanaged index of 500 companies used to measure large-cap U.S. stock market performance.

Pricing

Price History

As Of 4/2/2025
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Bid/Ask Premium/Discount

As Of 4/2/2025
  2024 1/1/2025 - 3/31/2025 4/1/2025 - 6/30/2025 7/1/2025 - 9/30/2025
Days Traded at Premium 202 51 2 ---
Days Traded at Discount 50 9 0 ---

Holdings

Fund Characteristics

As Of 3/31/2025
Maximum Market Cap.
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All market capitalization numbers are in USD Millions.
$3,336,853
Median Market Cap.
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All market capitalization numbers are in USD Millions.
$16,146
Minimum Market Cap.
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All market capitalization numbers are in USD Millions.
$693
Price/Earnings
30.70
Price/Book
7.01
Price/Cash Flow
22.16
Price/Sales
3.89

Market cap and price ratio statistics are for the equity portion of the fund and exclude cash and options.

Portfolio Options Information

As Of 3/31/2025
Average Time Until Expiration of Calls
23 Days
Average Call Moneyness (OTM)
4.56%
Option Overwrite %
71.44%

Moneyness is how much an option contract's strike price is in-the-money (ITM) or out-of-the-money (OTM) expressed as a percentage of the price of the option contract's underlying asset.

Top Holdings

As Of 4/2/2025
Apple Inc.
8.12%
Microsoft Corporation
6.04%
NVIDIA Corporation
5.77%
Meta Platforms Inc. (Class A)
4.13%
Amazon.com, Inc.
3.94%
Broadcom Inc.
3.91%
Tesla, Inc.
3.25%
Netflix, Inc.
2.87%
Costco Wholesale Corporation
2.81%
T-Mobile US, Inc.
2.03%

Excluding cash. Holdings are subject to change.

Top Sector Exposure

As Of 4/2/2025
Information Technology
42.35%
Communication Services
13.37%
Consumer Discretionary
10.41%
Consumer Staples
8.20%
Health Care
7.99%
Financials
7.18%
Industrials
3.92%
Energy
2.23%
Materials
1.86%
Utilities
1.80%
Real Estate
1.41%

Distributions

Distribution History

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Record Date
Payable Date
Distribution Amount
Distribution Type
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Ordinary distributions may include realized short-term capital gains and/or returns of capital. Final determination of the source and tax status of all distributions paid in the current year are to be made after year-end. The Fund will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the current year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.

The distribution history represents dividends that were paid by the Fund and is not a guarantee of the Fund's future dividend-paying ability.

You should consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing. You can download a prospectus or summary prospectus, or contact First Trust Portfolios L.P. at 1-800-621-1675 to request a prospectus or summary prospectus which contains this and other information about the fund. The prospectus or summary prospectus should be read carefully before investing.

You could lose money by investing in a fund. An investment in a fund is not a deposit of a bank and is not insured or guaranteed. There can be no assurance that a fund's objective(s) will be achieved. Investors buying or selling shares on the secondary market may incur customary brokerage commissions. Please refer to each fund's prospectus and Statement of Additional Information for additional details on a fund's risks. The order of the below risk factors does not indicate the significance of any particular risk factor.

Unlike mutual funds, shares of the fund may only be redeemed directly from a fund by authorized participants in very large creation/redemption units. If a fund's authorized participants are unable to proceed with creation/redemption orders and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem, fund shares may trade at a premium or discount to a fund's net asset value and possibly face delisting and the bid/ask spread may widen.

A fund may be subject to the risk that a counterparty will not fulfill its obligations which may result in significant financial loss to a fund.

The writer of a covered call option foregoes any profit from increases in the market value of the underlying security covering the call option above the sum of the premium and the strike price of the call, but retains the risk of loss if the underlying security declines in value. The Fund will have no control over the exercise of the option by the option holder and may lose the benefit from any capital appreciation on the underlying security.

Changes in currency exchange rates and the relative value of non-US currencies may affect the value of a fund's investments and the value of a fund's shares.

Current market conditions risk is the risk that a particular investment, or shares of the fund in general, may fall in value due to current market conditions. For example, changes in governmental fiscal and regulatory policies, disruptions to banking and real estate markets, actual and threatened international armed conflicts and hostilities, and public health crises, among other significant events, could have a material impact on the value of the fund's investments.

A fund is susceptible to operational risks through breaches in cyber security. Such events could cause a fund to incur regulatory penalties, reputational damage, additional compliance costs associated with corrective measures and/or financial loss.

Depositary receipts may be less liquid than the underlying shares in their primary trading market and distributions may be subject to a fee. Holders may have limited voting rights, and investment restrictions in certain countries may adversely impact their value.

The use of derivatives instruments involves different and possibly greater risks than investing directly in securities including counterparty risk, valuation risk, volatility risk, and liquidity risk. Further, losses because of adverse movements in the price or value of the underlying asset, index or rate may be magnified by certain features of the derivatives.

Equity securities may decline significantly in price over short or extended periods of time, and such declines may occur in the equity market as a whole, or they may occur in only a particular country, company, industry or sector of the market.

A fund may be a constituent of one or more indices or models which could greatly affect a fund's trading activity, size and volatility.

As inflation increases, the present value of a fund's assets and distributions may decline.

Certain fund investments may be subject to restrictions on resale, trade over-the-counter or in limited volume, or lack an active trading market. Illiquid securities may trade at a discount and may be subject to wide fluctuations in market value.

The portfolio managers of an actively managed portfolio will apply investment techniques and risk analyses that may not have the desired result.

Market risk is the risk that a particular security, or shares of a fund in general may fall in value. Securities are subject to market fluctuations caused by such factors as general economic conditions, political events, regulatory or market developments, changes in interest rates and perceived trends in securities prices. Shares of a fund could decline in value or underperform other investments as a result. In addition, local, regional or global events such as war, acts of terrorism, spread of infectious disease or other public health issues, recessions, natural disasters or other events could have significant negative impact on a fund.

A fund faces numerous market trading risks, including the potential lack of an active market for fund shares due to a limited number of market makers. Decisions by market makers or authorized participants to reduce their role or step away in times of market stress could inhibit the effectiveness of the arbitrage process in maintaining the relationship between the underlying values of a fund's portfolio securities and a fund's market price.

Securities of non-U.S. issuers are subject to additional risks, including currency fluctuations, political risks, withholding, lack of liquidity, lack of adequate financial information, and exchange control restrictions impacting non-U.S. issuers.

A fund and a fund's advisor may seek to reduce various operational risks through controls and procedures, but it is not possible to completely protect against such risks. The fund also relies on third parties for a range of services, including custody, and any delay or failure related to those services may affect the fund's ability to meet its objective.

The prices of options are volatile and the effective use of options depends on a fund's ability to terminate option positions at times deemed desirable to do so. There is no assurance that a fund will be able to effect closing transactions at any particular time or at an acceptable price.

High portfolio turnover may result in higher levels of transaction costs and may generate greater tax liabilities for shareholders.

The market price of a fund's shares will generally fluctuate in accordance with changes in the fund's net asset value ("NAV") as well as the relative supply of and demand for shares on the exchange, and a fund's investment advisor cannot predict whether shares will trade below, at or above their NAV.

A fund with significant exposure to a single asset class, country, region, industry, or sector may be more affected by an adverse economic or political development than a broadly diversified fund.

If a fund does not qualify as a RIC for any taxable year and certain relief provisions were not available, a fund's taxable income would be subject to tax at the fund level and to a further tax at the shareholder level when such income is distributed. Further, there may be other tax implications to a fund based on the type of investments in a fund.

Trading on an exchange may be halted due to market conditions or other reasons. There can be no assurance that a fund's requirements to maintain the exchange listing will continue to be met or be unchanged.

A fund may hold securities or other assets that may be valued on the basis of factors other than market quotations. This may occur because the asset or security does not trade on a centralized exchange, or in times of market turmoil or reduced liquidity. Portfolio holdings that are valued using techniques other than market quotations, including "fair valued" assets or securities, may be subject to greater fluctuation in their valuations from one day to the next than if market quotations were used. There is no assurance that a fund could sell or close out a portfolio position for the value established for it at any time.

First Trust Advisors L.P. (FTA) is the adviser to the First Trust fund(s). FTA is an affiliate of First Trust Portfolios L.P., the distributor of the fund(s).

Nasdaq® and Nasdaq Composite® Index are registered trademarks and service marks of Nasdaq, Inc. (together with its affiliates hereinafter referred to as the "Corporations") and are licensed for use by First Trust. The Fund has not been passed on by the Corporations as to its legality or suitability. The Fund is not issued, endorsed, sold or promoted by the Corporations. THE CORPORATIONS MAKE NO WARRANTIES AND BEAR NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE FUND.

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