Fund · First Trust Large Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund · measured from SEC filings
FTC holdings
FTC reports 188 holdings and behaves like 156.2 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: 99.69% at a quoted market price (level 1), 6 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31FTC's largest investment is Sandisk Corp at 1.37% of net assets. Seagate Technology Holdings PLC ORD and Bloom Energy Corp COM follow; the three together are 4.07%. Ten companies are 9.73% of the fund; the other 178 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, FTC behaves like 156.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.7 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FTC has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (151.8 then, 143.6 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 68 positions were added and 68 dropped; 46.1% 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, FTC went from behaving like 151.8 equally weighted positions to 143.6 — 5% fewer, while its top ten went from 9.45% to 11.93% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 188 | 143.6 | 11.93% | 1.37% |
| 2026-01-31 | 188 | 147.2 | 10.96% | 1.31% |
| 2025-10-31 | 189 | 147.7 | 10.63% | 1.16% |
| 2025-07-31 | 188 | 149.2 | 10.53% | 1.14% |
| 2025-04-30 | 188 | 150.9 | 10.3% | 1.25% |
| 2025-01-31 | 188 | 149.9 | 10.04% | 1.19% |
| 2024-10-31 | 188 | 149.6 | 10.21% | 1.26% |
| 2024-07-31 | 188 | 151.8 | 10.04% | 1.11% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 188 | 151 | 10% | 1.08% |
| 2024-01-31 | 188 | 148.3 | 10.38% | 1.64% |
| 2023-10-31 | 188 | 152.3 | 9.7% | 1.09% |
| 2023-07-31 | 188 | 151.4 | 9.86% | 1.13% |
| 2023-04-28 | 188 | 151.6 | 9.57% | 1% |
| 2023-01-31 | 188 | 152.8 | 9.65% | 1.11% |
| 2022-10-31 | 186 | 146.6 | 10.5% | 1.1% |
| 2022-07-29 | 188 | 152.7 | 9.69% | 1.2% |
| 2022-04-29 | 188 | 150.9 | 9.9% | 1.04% |
| 2022-01-31 | 188 | 151.2 | 9.92% | 1.12% |
| 2021-10-29 | 188 | 149.7 | 10.31% | 1.43% |
| 2021-07-30 | 188 | 151.3 | 10.2% | 1.31% |
| 2021-04-30 | 188 | 152 | 10.08% | 1.17% |
| 2021-01-29 | 188 | 148.9 | 10.39% | 1.49% |
| 2020-10-30 | 188 | 150.1 | 10.19% | 1.29% |
| 2020-07-31 | 188 | 150 | 10.18% | 1.12% |
| 2020-04-30 | 188 | 151 | 10.02% | 1.19% |
| 2020-01-31 | 188 | 151.3 | 10.28% | 1.37% |
| 2019-10-31 | 188 | 151.8 | 9.45% | 1.01% |
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 188 positions in FTC's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FTC.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SANDISK CORP | 1.37% | 1.4% |
| 2 | SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS PLC | 1.37% | 2.7% |
| 3 | BLOOM ENERGY CORP | 1.33% | 4.1% |
| 4 | WESTERN DIGITAL CORP | 1.28% | 5.3% |
| 5 | MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 1.22% | 6.6% |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC | 1.11% | 7.7% |
| 7 | CIENA CORP | 1.08% | 8.8% |
| 8 | COMFORT SYSTEMS USA INC | 1.06% | 9.8% |
| 9 | MARVELL TECHNOLOGY INC | 1.06% | 10.9% |
| 10 | QUANTA SERVICES INC | 1.05% | 11.9% |
| 11 | VERTIV HOLDINGS COMPANY | 1.04% | 13.0% |
| 12 | LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC | 1.02% | 14.0% |
| 13 | DELL TECHNOLOGIES INC | 1.01% | 15.0% |
| 14 | MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS INC | 1.01% | 16.0% |
| 15 | CATERPILLAR INC | 1.00% | 17.0% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of FTC'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 | 93.78% |
| Ireland° | 3.99% |
| Cayman Islands° | 1.10% |
| Switzerland | 0.50% |
| Panama° | 0.33% |
| Liberia° | 0.30% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FTC'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 0.11 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FTC.json · all funds.
Who borrows FTC'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, $4m was out to 2 borrowers. The largest, BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, held 80.9% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | $3m | 80.9% |
| Scotia Capital (USA) Inc | $779,539 | 19.1% |
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 FTC has filed, with each borrower: FTC.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30188 positions became 188: 68 added (43.3% of the fund at the later date), 68 dropped (23.8% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 46.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FTC 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 | 0.48% | 1.06% | MONGODB INC | 0.79% | 0.16% |
| EATON CORP PLC | 0.19% | 0.56% | IDEXX LABORATORIES INC | 0.70% | 0.15% |
| GARMIN LTD | 0.17% | 0.50% | METTLER-TOLEDO INTERNATIONAL INC | 0.70% | 0.16% |
| BOEING COMPANY (THE) | 0.56% | 0.73% | ELI LILLY & COMPANY | 0.86% | 0.32% |
| LIBERTY MEDIA CORP | 0.15% | 0.32% | AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY | 0.84% | 0.34% |
| TRANE TECHNOLOGIES PLC | 0.38% | 0.55% | RIVIAN AUTOMOTIVE INC | 0.66% | 0.17% |
New: SANDISK CORP (1.37%), BLOOM ENERGY CORP (1.33%), WESTERN DIGITAL CORP (1.28%), MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (1.22%), CIENA CORP (1.08%), LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC (1.02%). Gone: LPL Financial Holdings Inc (0.91%), Expedia Group Inc (0.83%), Targa Resources Corp (0.77%), Twilio Inc (0.75%), Wells Fargo & Co (0.69%), First Citizens BancShares Inc/ (0.68%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 99.56% |
| repurchase agreement RA | 0.31% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.12% |
99.7% of FTC 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 FTC (156.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDYG State Street(R) SPDR(R) S & P 400(TM) Mid Cap Growth ETF | 245 | 144.6 | 14.43% | 2026-06-30 |
| AVMV Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF | 305 | 148.8 | 13.49% | 2026-05-31 |
| FNDF Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF | 891 | 149.8 | 17.1% | 2026-05-31 |
| IPAC iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF | 1,380 | 149.9 | 18.4% | 2026-07-31 |
| JIVE JPMorgan International Value ETF | 375 | 155.9 | 17.62% | 2026-07-31 |
| FEP First Trust Europe AlphaDEX Fund | 202 | 160.4 | 10.24% | 2026-06-30 |
| DFIV Dimensional International Value ETF | 634 | 161.3 | 15.59% | 2026-07-31 |
| DIVI Franklin International Core Dividend Tilt Index ETF | 416 | 167.7 | 14.31% | 2026-06-30 |
| IMCG iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF | 261 | 168.8 | 12% | 2026-07-31 |
| EFAX State Street(R) SPDR(R) MSCI EAFE Fossil Fuel Reserves Free ETF | 645 | 170.8 | 15.38% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine FTC
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