Fund · First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund · measured from SEC filings
FEX holdings
FEX reports 376 holdings and behaves like 305.4 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-07-31Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 99.81% at a quoted market price (level 1), 9 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31FEX's largest investment is Bloom Energy Corp COM at 0.86% of net assets. Sandisk Corp and Seagate Technology Holdings PLC ORD follow; the three together are 2.27%. Ten companies are 5.48% of the fund; the other 366 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, FEX behaves like 305.4 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 7.2 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FEX has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (305.6 then, 296.5 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 76 positions were added and 76 dropped; 31.4% of the weight moved.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, FEX went from behaving like 305.6 equally weighted positions to 296.5 — 3% fewer, while its top ten went from 4.94% to 6.33% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 376 | 296.5 | 6.33% | 0.86% |
| 2026-01-31 | 376 | 301.9 | 5.33% | 0.63% |
| 2025-10-31 | 376 | 301.8 | 5.43% | 0.59% |
| 2025-07-31 | 376 | 302.7 | 5.33% | 0.57% |
| 2025-04-30 | 376 | 306.5 | 5.24% | 0.64% |
| 2025-01-31 | 377 | 304.5 | 5.03% | 0.59% |
| 2024-10-31 | 376 | 303.5 | 5.2% | 0.61% |
| 2024-07-31 | 376 | 306.5 | 5.02% | 0.55% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 376 | 305.3 | 4.94% | 0.53% |
| 2024-01-31 | 376 | 304.2 | 5.07% | 0.66% |
| 2023-10-31 | 376 | 307.1 | 4.92% | 0.53% |
| 2023-07-31 | 376 | 303.2 | 5.12% | 0.57% |
| 2023-04-28 | 376 | 306.9 | 4.85% | 0.51% |
| 2023-01-31 | 376 | 302.7 | 5.26% | 0.58% |
| 2022-10-31 | 374 | 299.5 | 5.24% | 0.54% |
| 2022-07-29 | 376 | 307.6 | 5.07% | 0.55% |
| 2022-04-29 | 376 | 304.5 | 5.01% | 0.52% |
| 2022-01-31 | 376 | 302.3 | 5.26% | 0.59% |
| 2021-10-29 | 376 | 305.1 | 5.23% | 0.72% |
| 2021-07-30 | 376 | 307.3 | 5.06% | 0.66% |
| 2021-04-30 | 376 | 307.2 | 4.98% | 0.58% |
| 2021-01-29 | 376 | 301.9 | 5.32% | 0.74% |
| 2020-10-30 | 376 | 304.1 | 5.09% | 0.63% |
| 2020-07-31 | 377 | 305.9 | 5.21% | 0.56% |
| 2020-04-30 | 376 | 297.4 | 5.85% | 0.83% |
| 2020-01-31 | 376 | 306.6 | 5.35% | 0.7% |
| 2019-10-31 | 376 | 305.6 | 4.94% | 0.56% |
One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-04-30The 15 largest of 376 positions in FEX's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FEX.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BLOOM ENERGY CORP | 0.86% | 0.9% |
| 2 | SANDISK CORP | 0.71% | 1.6% |
| 3 | SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PLC | 0.71% | 2.3% |
| 4 | WESTERN DIGITAL CORP | 0.66% | 2.9% |
| 5 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 0.63% | 3.6% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC | 0.57% | 4.1% |
| 7 | CIENA CORP | 0.56% | 4.7% |
| 8 | COMFORT SYSTEMS USA INC | 0.55% | 5.2% |
| 9 | MARVELL TECHNOLOGY INC | 0.55% | 5.8% |
| 10 | QUANTA SERVICES INC | 0.54% | 6.3% |
| 11 | VERTIV HOLDINGS COMPANY | 0.54% | 6.9% |
| 12 | ELEVANCE HEALTH INC | 0.53% | 7.4% |
| 13 | LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC | 0.53% | 7.9% |
| 14 | DELL TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.52% | 8.4% |
| 15 | MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS INC | 0.52% | 9.0% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of FEX's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 94.38% |
| Ireland° | 2.84% |
| Switzerland | 0.67% |
| Cayman Islands° | 0.57% |
| Jersey° | 0.46% |
| Bermuda° | 0.40% |
| Curaçao° | 0.27% |
| Netherlands° | 0.24% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FEX's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.05 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FEX.json · all funds.
Who borrows FEX's shares
2026-07-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $3m was out to 1 borrower.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| Scotia Capital (USA) Inc | $3m | 100.0% |
The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter FEX has filed, with each borrower: FEX.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30376 positions became 376: 76 added (20.6% of the fund at the later date), 76 dropped (12.7% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 31.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FEX compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MARVELL TECHNOLOGY INC | 0.08% | 0.55% | FORD MOTOR CO | 0.45% | 0.09% |
| DELL TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.08% | 0.52% | ZOOM COMMUNICATIONS INC | 0.46% | 0.10% |
| KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC | 0.09% | 0.51% | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 0.41% | 0.08% |
| WALT DISNEY COMPANY (THE) | 0.08% | 0.44% | EXPEDIA GROUP INC | 0.40% | 0.09% |
| ROSS STORES INC | 0.09% | 0.43% | LEIDOS HOLDINGS INC | 0.36% | 0.08% |
| APPLIED MATERIALS INC | 0.11% | 0.38% | SLB LTD | 0.54% | 0.27% |
New: BLOOM ENERGY CORP (0.86%), SANDISK CORP (0.71%), CIENA CORP (0.56%), LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC (0.53%), MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS INC (0.52%), MKS INC (0.51%). Gone: CF Industries Holdings Inc (0.52%), Coterra Energy Inc (0.47%), Dow Inc (0.40%), MongoDB Inc (0.38%), Twilio Inc (0.36%), Fidelity National Financial In (0.34%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 99.72% |
| repurchase agreement RA | 0.19% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.09% |
99.8% of FEX is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FEX (305.4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSVO EA Bridgeway Omni Small-Cap Value ETF | 576 | 283.5 | 7.98% | 2026-06-30 |
| DDWM WisdomTree Dynamic International Equity Fund | 1,533 | 284.3 | 11.22% | 2026-06-30 |
| IMCB iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF | 396 | 285.6 | 6.94% | 2026-07-31 |
| IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF | 406 | 287.4 | 7.73% | 2026-06-30 |
| SLYV State Street(R) SPDR(R) S & P 600(TM) Small Cap Value ETF | 464 | 288.5 | 8.29% | 2026-06-30 |
| GSIE Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta(R) International Equity ETF | 658 | 305.7 | 10.5% | 2026-05-31 |
| IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF | 2,335 | 310.4 | 10.77% | 2026-07-31 |
| VFMO Vanguard U.s. Momentum Factor ETF | 707 | 318.2 | 9.53% | 2026-05-31 |
| BKMC BNY Mellon US Mid Cap Core Equity ETF | 403 | 325.1 | 6.4% | 2026-07-31 |
| EZM WisdomTree U.S. MidCap Fund | 507 | 330.3 | 7.77% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine FEX
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