FVD News and Press, First Trust VL Dividend From 09/23/20

First Trust Value Line Dividend ETF (FVD) declares $0.1866/share quarterly dividend, -15.6% decrease from prior dividend of $0.2212.Forward yield 2.42%Payable Sept. 30; for shareholders of record Sept. 25; ex-div Sept. 24.See FVD Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For f...

First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the special meeting of shareholders of First Trust Value Line ® 100 Exchange-Traded Fund (NYSE Arca: FVL), a series of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund (the “Trust”), has been adjourned in order to allow ...

By Columbia Threadneedle Investment Team U.S. companies are cutting or suspending dividends at a rate not seen since the global financial crisis. But investors should remain focused on the longer term performance. Dividends have historically been an important component of equity total ...

Expecting to find a "free lunch" in the market (returns potential that exceeds risk) has pejorative connotations, but in reality, anybody who doesn't strictly adhere to the efficient market theory is, one way or another, trying to accomplish that very thing. In the income area, aggressive pra...

In mid-January, I posted an article that covered the 18 most popular dividend ETFs and it was one of my most popular articles in my time here on Seeking Alpha. In the comments section, some users mentioned the performance of the top ETFs being lower yield, higher growth ETFs, so naturally it...

First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the Board of Trustees of First Trust Value Line ® 100 Exchange-Traded Fund (NYSE Arca: FVL), an index based exchange-traded fund (“ETF”), managed by FTA, approved the reorganization of FVL into First Trus...

The inspiration for this article came from Seeking Alpha founder David Jackson in the comments section of an article. There was a discussion going on about the index methodologies of popular dividend ETFs and a focus on which ETFs screened for future dividend growth rather than being more ...

Introduction Each month, I extract about a thousand mutual funds, exchange traded funds and closed end funds from Mutual Fund Observer, and rank them for Risk (MFO Risk, Ulcer Index, Category Performance During Recessions, Leverage, Debt Quality, Debt/Equity), Risk Adjusted Returns (MFO Rank...

ETF Overview WisdomTree U.S. Large Cap Dividend ETF ( DLN ) focuses on large-cap dividend stocks in the United States. DLN tracks the WisdomTree U.S. Large Cap Dividend Index. The fund selects 300 largest companies by market cap from the WisdomTree Dividend Index. Its selection results in la...

ETF Overview First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund ( FVD ) focuses on dividend stocks based on Value Line’s safety ranking. The safety ranking is based on stock price stability as well as financial strength of these stocks. FVD’s portfolio of stocks are constructed based o...