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FDL Dividend Calculator
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund. Project monthly, quarterly and annual income, DRIP compounding, break-even and a year-by-year table. Runs in your browser; the numbers you enter live in the page URL so you can share or bookmark a result.
Prefilled with a 3.53% reference yield at $52.41 · expense ratio 0.43% · as of 2026-09-15 · StockAnalysis. Edit any field.
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About FDL
FDL is the First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund. It tracks the 100 highest-yielding U.S. stocks that pass Morningstar screens for dividend consistency and sustainability, weighted by total dividends paid, which concentrates it in a small number of large payers. Distributions are quarterly.
Type ETF Sector Dividend ETF · US high yield Pays quarterly Expense ratio 0.43%
How this calculator works
Shares bought is investment ÷ price. The dividend per share per payment is
price × yield ÷ 100 ÷ payments per year (4 for FDL). For every payment the
calculator pays shares × dividend per share; with DRIP on it buys
payment ÷ current price more shares, and any annual contribution is split evenly across
the year's payments and also buys shares. The growth assumptions are converted to a per-payment rate so
that they compound to the annual figure you enter. Break-even is the first month at which the
dividends received so far reach 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of the capital contributed to that point,
simulated out to 50 years. Yield on cost is the year's dividends divided by total capital contributed.
FAQ
- How much does FDL pay per share?
- As of 15 September 2026 the reference figures from StockAnalysis were a 3.53% trailing-twelve-month yield at a share price of $52.41, which works out to about $1.85 per share a year, paid quarterly (roughly $0.46 per quarter). ETF distributions change with the income of the underlying holdings, so check the issuer's latest declaration before relying on it.
- How many FDL shares would it take to earn $1,000 a month?
- At the reference yield of 3.53% you would need about 6,486 shares, roughly $339,943 at $52.41 a share, to receive $12,000 a year. Set the initial investment to that amount in the calculator to see the projection. A higher yield needs fewer shares; a lower yield needs more.
- What does the DRIP toggle change?
- With DRIP on, each distribution buys more FDL shares at the then-current price, so the next payment is slightly larger; the projection compounds 4 times a year. With DRIP off the distributions are counted as cash income and the share count only changes through your annual contributions.
- Does the calculator account for FDL's 0.43% expense ratio?
- Not separately. FDL's expense ratio of 0.43% is deducted inside the fund before distributions are paid, so a yield based on actual distributions is already net of it. The price-growth assumption is your own; if you model total return, remember the expense ratio is a drag on it.
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Not financial advice. Reference figures as of 2026-09-15 from StockAnalysis; yields and prices change daily and dividends can be cut. Projections are arithmetic on your assumptions, not forecasts.