First Trust Global Wind Energy ETF
$23.23−0.47 (−1.96%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.61%
- Fund size
- $218M
- 1Y return
- +26.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.99%
- Holdings
- 46
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $23.59
- 52W range
The ETF.net FAN Grade
Score 58 of 100 sits in the B 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.DScore 38Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 92Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 64Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 52Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 76Category rank
Our read on FAN
BClean energy funds usually blend a bit of everything. FAN picks one technology and stays there: a global, wind-only index of roughly 60 stocks, running since 2008.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the ISE Clean Edge Global Wind Energy Index, an equity index focused on companies active in wind energy.
Why people hold it
- Wind only, not clean energy in general. It tracks an index built around companies active in wind energy, so the theme stays undiluted.
- Trading since 2008, so it carries a full-cycle record through the theme's booms and busts.
- Global by mandate. Wind's supply chain and project pipelines are not a US story, and the basket reaches across markets in roughly 60 names.
- Sits in the top quartile of the clean energy funds we cover, and it pays distributions quarterly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.61% a year it prices above the cohort median and above broader clean-energy options such as ICLN and FRNW at 0.39%.
- One technology, roughly 60 stocks. Turbine order cycles, policy shifts and rates steer this basket more than a diversified clean-energy mix.
- Moderately traded rather than a category heavyweight, so the bid-ask spread matters more on large or hurried orders.
FAN Holdings
- Stocks
- 46
- 56%
- NDX1.DE
Sectors
- Utilities51.6%
- Industrials45.2%
- Consumer Discr.2.0%
- Energy1.0%
- Materials0.2%
Geography
- Denmark20.02%
- Germany13.79%
- United States12.18%
- Spain11.50%
- China10.21%
- Italy8.03%
- South Korea4.13%
- Japan4.11%
- 16.03%
Developed 77% · Emerging 23%
FAN Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
FAN$12,661
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 | FAN |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.1% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −6.1% |
| 1 year | +26.6% |
| 3 years | +17.8% |
| 5 years | +3.5% |
| 10 years | +8.1% |
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 | FAN |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.1% | |
| 2025 | +40.4% | |
| 2024 | −9.0% | |
| 2023 | −3.2% | |
| 2022 | −13.1% | |
| 2021 | −11.6% | |
| 2020 | +61.1% |
FAN in the news
FAN Dividends
- 0.99%
- $0.23
- $0.09 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.04 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.08 |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | $0.12 |
FAN Risk
- 21.0%
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.
- 0.59
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.
- −37.9%
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.
- 0.98
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FAN Cost
0.61%
FAN0.61%
- The middle half of Clean Energy funds
- Median 0.58%
9 of the 16 Clean Energy funds charge less.