First Trust EIP Power Solutions ETF
$35.23−0.31 (−0.88%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.96%
- Fund size
- $30M
- 1Y return
- +11.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.01%
- Holdings
- 58
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $35.63
- 52W range
The ETF.net FPWR Grade
Score 42 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 5Category 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 78Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 57Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 62Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 70Category rank
Our read on FPWR
CThe stock-picker in a category of index trackers. First Trust hands the keys to energy-income specialist EIP, which assembles a power portfolio (grid, gas, nuclear, storage) balanced between dividends and capital appreciation.
The Fund seeks competitive risk-adjusted total returns balanced between dividends and capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Actively run, not indexed: sub-advisor Energy Income Partners picks the names, aiming for risk-adjusted total return split between dividends and capital appreciation.eipinvestments.com
- The mandate spans the whole electricity chain: generation, transmission and distribution, grid solutions, storage, nuclear life-extension and small modular reactors, gas and uranium.sec.gov
- Picks-and-shovels included: engineering, consulting and construction firms qualify when at least 50% of revenue or profit comes from energy and utility work.sec.gov
- Income is built into the design rather than incidental, and the fund distributes on a quarterly schedule.
Worth knowing
- Active talent costs: 0.96% a year, while index-based rivals ELFY and ZAP charge 0.50% and GRID 0.56%.
- A small fund that trades lightly, so the bid-ask spread can matter as much as the expense ratio when you enter or exit.
- It traded as the First Trust EIP Carbon Impact ETF (ECLN) until September 2025, when the strategy and name changed, so earlier results reflect a different mandate.businesswire.com
FPWR Holdings
- Stocks
- 58
- 38%
- US Dollar
Sectors
- Utilities62.0%
- Energy34.4%
- Industrials3.0%
- Financials0.6%
Geography
- United States95.09%
- Canada2.50%
- Spain1.34%
- Italy1.07%
FPWR 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 | FPWR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.5% |
| 1 month | −3.0% |
| 3 months | −4.2% |
| 1 year | +11.2% |
| 3 years | +16.5% |
| 5 years | +11.0% |
| 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 | FPWR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.5% | |
| 2025 | +16.8% | |
| 2024 | +22.6% | |
| 2023 | −3.4% | |
| 2022 | +5.4% | |
| 2021 | +12.3% | |
| 2020 | +9.0% |
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FPWR Dividends
- 2.01%
- $0.71
- $0.18 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.23 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.18 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.17 |
FPWR Risk
- 12.5%
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.
- 1.02
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.
- −19.8%
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.
- 0.57
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FPWR Cost
- The middle half of Grid & Electrification funds
- Median 0.53%
Every other Grid & Electrification fund charges less.