First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund (NASDAQ:FEMS) to Issue Dividend Increase – $0.65 Per Share

by · The Markets Daily

First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund (NASDAQ:FEMS – Get Free Report) announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 11th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 12th will be given a dividend of 0.6494 per share by the exchange traded fund on Wednesday, December 31st. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 6.0%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 12th. This is a 22.1% increase from First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.53.

First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund Stock Up 0.5%

FEMS stock opened at $43.07 on Friday. First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund has a twelve month low of $32.31 and a twelve month high of $45.10. The company has a market cap of $267.03 million, a P/E ratio of 8.10 and a beta of 0.63. The business has a fifty day moving average of $42.53 and a 200-day moving average of $42.16.

First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund Company Profile

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The First Trust Emerging Markets Small Cap AlphaDEX Fund (FEMS) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the NASDAQ AlphaDEX EM Small Cap index. The fund aims to outperform other index funds by selecting small-cap emerging markets securities using quantitative metrics. FEMS was launched on Feb 15, 2012 and is managed by First Trust.

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