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Data last updated: Oct 19, 2026
Snapshot (as of Oct 19, 2026): First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (RDVY) pays a $0.00 annual dividend, yielding 0.86% at $79.37/share. Source: Yahoo Finance, aggregated by MerryDiv.
Dividend Yield: 0.86%
Annual Dividend: $0.00 per share
Dividend Frequency: quarterly
Years of Dividend History: 13
The First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF dividend targets companies that have raised their payouts over both three-year and five-year periods, investing at least 90% of net assets in those qualifying stocks and depositary receipts. RDVY currently yields 0.87%, which places it firmly in low-yield territory. The fund pays quarterly. Growth-focused income investors are the natural audience here, given the fund's explicit mandate to track rising dividends rather than maximize current yield.
First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF dividend safety depends on the aggregate distributions from the underlying holdings, which are selected specifically because they have raised dividends over three-year and five-year periods. Payout ratio is not applicable (fund/ETF). The most concrete data-supported risk is that annual payments have declined in at least one year within the available history, with 2024 coming in at $0.9722 versus $1.0797 in 2023, a drop of roughly 10%, showing that the fund's distributions are not immune to year-over-year pullbacks.
First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF dividend history shows a CAGR of 8.8% per year from 2014 to 2024. Per-share payments grew from $0.4170 to $0.9722 over that decade (2025 and 2026 figures are partial years and excluded from the rate calculation). The largest single-year jump in the window was 80.0% in 2022, though the history also includes at least one decline exceeding 5%, so growth has not been linear.
| Period | CAGR | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year | -7.3% | $0.97 (2022) | $0.77 (2025) |
| 5-Year | +4.8% | $0.61 (2020) | $0.77 (2025) |
| 10-Year | +5.7% | $0.44 (2015) | $0.77 (2025) |
RDVY fits growth-and-income investors who want exposure to dividend-raising companies and are willing to accept a low current yield in exchange for above-average payout growth. The yield of 0.87% is low (below 2%), meaning the fund delivers little immediate income on its own. What the data does show is a 10-year CAGR of 8.8%, which is the real draw. The trade-off is clear: an investor gets a portfolio screened for dividend growth discipline, but accepts a yield that will not meaningfully supplement income in the near term.
| Payment Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | $0.1521 |
| 2026-06-25 | $0.1474 |
| 2026-03-26 | $0.1813 |
| 2025-12-12 | $0.1996 |
| 2025-09-25 | $0.1487 |
| 2025-06-26 | $0.1706 |
| 2025-03-27 | $0.2544 |
| 2024-12-13 | $0.2956 |
| 2024-09-26 | $0.1912 |
| 2024-06-27 | $0.2616 |
| Year | Total Dividends |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $0.4808 |
| 2025 | $0.7733 |
| 2024 | $0.9722 |
| 2023 | $1.0797 |
| 2022 | $0.9700 |
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