FIRST TRUST EMERGING MARKETS SMALL CAP ALPHADEX FUND

Symbol: FEMS

Exchange: NASDAQ

Sector: Technology

Category: Diversified Emerging Mkts

Inception Date: 15/02/2012

Latest Date: 02/04/2026

Current Price: $45.41

Expense Ratio: 0.80%

Assets Under Management
$272.6M
0.75% daily change

Period Performance

Adjusted cumulative ETF performance normalized to the first available adjusted price of the selected period.

Adjusted Return
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Performance Metrics

Return

-4.42%

Volatility

27.30%

Sharpe Ratio

-1.564

VaR 95%

-2.73%

CVaR 95%: -3.56%
Max Drawdown: -4.08%
Sortino Ratio: -2.176
Calmar Ratio: -9.56
Return

7.02%

Volatility

20.13%

Sharpe Ratio

1.398

VaR 95%

-1.94%

CVaR 95%: -2.92%
Max Drawdown: -9.21%
Sortino Ratio: 1.813
Calmar Ratio: 3.45
Return

4.86%

Volatility

17.03%

Sharpe Ratio

0.377

VaR 95%

-1.59%

CVaR 95%: -2.60%
Max Drawdown: -9.21%
Sortino Ratio: 0.487
Calmar Ratio: 1.09
Return

25.99%

Volatility

17.80%

Sharpe Ratio

1.263

VaR 95%

-1.56%

CVaR 95%: -2.76%
Max Drawdown: -11.14%
Sortino Ratio: 1.516
Calmar Ratio: 2.34
Return

26.05%

Volatility

17.14%

Sharpe Ratio

0.507

VaR 95%

-1.65%

CVaR 95%: -2.56%
Max Drawdown: -21.10%
Sortino Ratio: 0.656
Calmar Ratio: 0.58
Return

38.34%

Volatility

16.67%

Sharpe Ratio

0.471

VaR 95%

-1.63%

CVaR 95%: -2.41%
Max Drawdown: -21.10%
Sortino Ratio: 0.646
Calmar Ratio: 0.54

Daily Returns for Period 12M

Daily simple returns calculated over the official metric window from the same adjusted price series used in the chart: 02/04/2025 - 02/04/2026.

Methodology: adjusted prices + daily simple return
Average Daily Return

0.098%

Best Day

5.252%

09/04/2025
Worst Day

-5.895%

04/04/2025
Days with Data

251

Recent Price History (Last 90 Days)

Date Open High Low Close Volume
02/04/2026 $45.07 $45.76 $45.07 $45.41 49,000
01/04/2026 $45.53 $46.18 $45.32 $45.76 21,200
31/03/2026 $44.75 $45.55 $44.41 $45.55 28,700
30/03/2026 $44.73 $45.09 $44.39 $44.53 31,400
27/03/2026 $44.57 $44.95 $44.14 $44.36 29,500
26/03/2026 $44.77 $44.77 $44.08 $44.08 31,000
25/03/2026 $45.74 $45.89 $45.26 $45.55 31,100
24/03/2026 $44.14 $44.60 $43.82 $44.18 73,200
23/03/2026 $44.03 $45.04 $44.03 $44.74 31,800
20/03/2026 $44.45 $44.80 $43.70 $43.91 34,300