Brookmont Equity Dividend Portfolio, Series 42

Brookmont Capital Management (“Brookmont”) is an employee-owned registered investment advisor whose investment strategy is based on a portfolio of individual equities that provide attractive current yields, potential dividend growth, and the opportunity for capital appreciation.

The Brookmont Equity Dividend Portfolio is a unit investment trust which invests in two types of equity securities:

• Dividend-paying companies with a long history of increasing dividend payments year-over-year. These companies have the potential to act as a hedge against economic uncertainty. A company’s ability to reliably increase its dividend for years, or even decades, can be an indication of its financial strength or discipline.


• Dividend-paying companies within industries resulting in names with high active share and growth prospects.

Brookmont believes that investing in dividend paying companies should be just as much forward looking as backward looking and that is why the firm emphasizes earnings resiliency, dividend capacity, strong management, and appropriate valuations that result in a high Brookmont Dividend Score.

The Importance of Dividends

Dividends have traditionally been one of the few constants in the world of investing, helping to buffer volatility in both good and bad markets. When markets decline, dividends have the potential to offset losses, and when markets rise, dividends have the potential to enhance returns.

A dividend is a payment from a company’s earnings. Since corporations are not obligated to share their earnings with stockholders, dividends may be viewed as a sign of a company’s profitability as well as management’s assessment of the future.

Selection Process-
Bottom Up Research With Economic Tailwinds

1. Determine Economic Trends – Typically, the investment team at Brookmont meets to determine economic trends.


2. Sector Allocation – Sector allocations are determined based on input from investment team meetings.


3. Industry Allocation – Portfolio is diversified across sector, style and size allocations. Weightings are adjusted to desired percentages, if additional exposure is needed, the Brookmont research team selects names from their watchlist.


4. Determine Investable Universe – Rigorous fundamental research process begins with screening the investable universe for what Brookmont believes to be top quartile long-term return on invested capital (ROIC) drivers. ROIC is an accounting measure that gives investors direction on how efficiently companies are operating.


5. Evaluate Company Fundamentals – Analysts review company financials, quarterly and annual reports, and earnings call transcripts to understand the direction of each company.


6. Create Proprietary Model – Analysts then create a proprietary model for each company under review.


7. Final Selection – The Brookmont Dividend Score is applied to each company under review and the final selection is made.

Portfolio Objective

This unit investment trust seeks above-average total return through a combination of capital appreciation and dividend income; however, there is no assurance the objective will be met.

You should carefully consider the portfolio investment objective, risks, and charges and expenses before investing. Contact your financial professional or call First Trust Portfolios L.P. at 1.800.621.1675 to request a prospectus, which contains this and other information about the portfolio. Read it carefully before you invest.

Risk Considerations
An investment in this unmanaged unit investment trust should be made with an understanding of the risks involved with owning common stocks, such as an economic recession and the possible deterioration of either the financial condition of the issuers of the equity securities or the general condition of the stock market.

You should be aware that the portfolio is concentrated in stocks in the industrials sector which involves additional risks, including limited diversification. The companies engaged in the industrials sector are subject to certain risks, including a deterioration in the general state of the economy, intense competition, domestic and international politics, excess capacity and changing spending trends.

Securities of non-U.S. issuers are subject to additional risks, including currency fluctuations, political risks, withholding, the lack of adequate financial information, and exchange control restrictions impacting non-U.S. issuers.

An investment in a portfolio containing small-cap and mid-cap companies is subject to additional risks, as the share prices of small-cap companies and certain mid-cap companies are often more volatile than those of larger companies due to several factors, including limited trading volumes, products, financial resources, management inexperience and less publicly available information.

Large capitalization companies may grow at a slower rate than the overall market.

As the use of Internet technology has become more prevalent in the course of business, the trust has become more susceptible to potential operational risks through breaches in cybersecurity.

Ongoing armed conflicts between Russia and Ukraine in Europe and among Israel, Hamas and other militant groups in the Middle East, have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility within the markets in Russia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments as well as performance.

The ongoing effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic, or the potential impacts of any future public health crisis, may cause significant volatility and uncertainty in global financial markets. While vaccines have been developed, there is no guarantee that vaccines will be effective against future variants of the disease.

The value of the securities held by the trust may be subject to steep declines or increased volatility due to changes in performance or perception of the issuers.

This UIT is a buy and hold strategy and investors should consider their ability to hold the trust until maturity. There may be tax consequences unless units are purchased in an IRA or other qualified plan.