FT Energy Income Partners Strategy ETF
$32.33−0.13 (−0.40%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.95%
- Fund size
- $570M
- 1Y return
- +28.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.69%
- Holdings
- 87
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $32.69
- 52W range
The ETF.net EIPX Grade
Score 51 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 12Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 40Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 89Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 69Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 73Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 79Category rank
Our read on EIPX
CFirst Trust hands the wheel to Energy Income Partners: an actively run, global energy book of roughly 80 names chasing risk-adjusted total return, not an index snapshot of whoever pumps the most barrels.
The Fund seeks risk-adjusted total return.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed rather than index-tracking, with a stated goal of risk-adjusted total return. A manager picks the energy names, and can pass on the ones it doesn't like.
- Roughly 80 holdings. Concentrated enough that the manager's calls actually show up, broad enough that no single pipeline or utility runs the show.
- The mandate is global, so the portfolio isn't fenced into US energy names the way many sector funds are.
- Pays on a quarterly cadence and has built a mid-sized asset base since its 2022 launch, which is real staying power for a niche sector fund.
Worth knowing
- 0.95% a year is specialist-active pricing, meaningfully above the typical active US equity ETF. You're paying for the stock picking, so it has to earn its keep.
- It trades lightly compared with its peer group, so entry and exit costs deserve more attention than with a mega-cap fund.
- This is one sector, start to finish. Energy moves on commodity cycles and policy, and the whole portfolio rides that wave together.
EIPX Holdings
- Stocks
- 87
- 41%
- EPD
Sectors
- Energy72.8%
- Utilities24.0%
- Industrials3.0%
- Technology0.2%
Geography
- United States88.30%
- United Kingdom4.04%
- Canada3.75%
- France1.87%
- Bermuda0.58%
- Greece0.42%
- Spain0.32%
- Italy0.30%
- 0.42%
EIPX Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | EIPX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +24.5% |
| 1 month | −2.2% |
| 3 months | +4.0% |
| 1 year | +28.5% |
| 3 years | +18.6% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | EIPX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +24.5% | |
| 2025 | +11.4% | |
| 2024 | +19.1% | |
| 2023 | +10.7% | |
| 2022 | +0.5% |
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EIPX Dividends
- 2.69%
- $0.87
- $0.24 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.18 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.20 |
EIPX Risk
- 12.9%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.15
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −15.4%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.24
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EIPX Cost
- The middle half of US Active Sector funds
- Median 0.65%
27 of the 33 US Active Sector funds charge less.