First Trust Natural Gas ETF
$29.71+0.34 (+1.17%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.59%
- Fund size
- $684M
- 1Y return
- +30.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.17%
- Holdings
- 41
- Volume · 30D
- 0.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $29.81
- 52W range
The ETF.net FCG Grade
Score 49 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.CScore 42Category 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.FScore 11Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 67Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 92Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 68Category rank
Our read on FCG
CMost "energy" ETFs are oil funds in a wider coat. FCG skips that framing: it tracks a Nasdaq FactSet natural gas index, about 40 names deep, and has been running the same pure-gas mandate since 2007.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield of the Nasdaq FactSet Natural Gas Index.
Why people hold it
- Narrow by design: it tracks the Nasdaq FactSet Natural Gas Index, roughly 40 names, rather than the oil-heavy majors that anchor broad energy funds like XLE and VDE.ftportfolios.com
- Launched in 2007, so the gas-only mandate has run through the shale boom and multiple price busts instead of arriving with the latest energy storyline.
- Actively traded for a single-commodity sector fund, so getting in and out doesn't hinge on one thin order book.
- Distributions come on a quarterly schedule, passing producer payouts through at a set cadence.
Worth knowing
- Focus costs money: 0.59% a year versus a 0.45% median for broad energy funds, and far above the 0.08% charged by XLE and FENY.
- One commodity, about 40 stocks. Gas price swings land harder here than in a diversified energy fund that also holds refiners and integrated majors.
- Mid-sized rather than a category heavyweight, which is normal for a single-commodity equity fund but means less scale than the broad energy giants.
FCG Holdings
- Stocks
- 41
- 42%
- HESM
Sectors
- Energy99.3%
- Technology0.7%
Geography
- United States91.75%
- Canada5.28%
- Australia2.98%
FCG Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
FCG$13,037
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 | FCG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +26.7% |
| 1 month | −6.8% |
| 3 months | +8.1% |
| 1 year | +30.4% |
| 3 years | +8.1% |
| 5 years | +17.5% |
| 10 years | +3.9% |
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 | FCG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +26.7% | |
| 2025 | −2.3% | |
| 2024 | +4.2% | |
| 2023 | +2.5% | |
| 2022 | +47.2% | |
| 2021 | +98.4% | |
| 2020 | −23.2% |
FCG in the news
FCG Dividends
- 2.17%
- $0.64
- $0.15 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.22 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.15 |
FCG Risk
- 22.6%
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.
- 0.27
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.
- −33.3%
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.
- −0.11
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FCG Cost
0.59%
FCG0.59%
- The middle half of Energy (Broad) funds
- Median 0.46%
13 of the 24 Energy (Broad) funds charge less.