First Trust Global Tactical Commodity Strategy Fund
$31.23+0.07 (+0.24%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.98%
- Fund size
- $3.4B
- 1Y return
- +44.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 14.14%
- Holdings
- 40
- Volume · 30D
- 0.7M sh
- NAV per share
- $31.12
- 52W range
The ETF.net FTGC Grade
Score 50 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 11Category 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 76Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 84Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 63Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 87Category rank
Our read on FTGC
CThe broad-commodity fund that picks its own weights. Running since 2013, it sizes futures by volatility instead of copying a production-weighted index, and holds them through a Cayman subsidiary so tax time brings a 1099, not a K-1.
The Fund seeks total returns through commodity exposure while aiming for a relatively stable risk profile.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely active: weightings across roughly 40 commodity positions are rebalanced in an attempt to stabilize risk levels, not fixed by the production-and-liquidity math behind traditional index baskets.sec.gov
- Futures exposure sits inside a wholly-owned Cayman subsidiary so the fund can stay within 1940 Act tax limits, which means ordinary fund reporting on a 1099 rather than a partnership K-1.sec.gov
- One of the longer-tenured actively managed commodity ETFs, live since 2013, now a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively.
- Distributions come quarterly, and the fund measures itself against the Bloomberg Commodity Index, so the manager's calls can be judged against the standard broad basket.
Worth knowing
- Active judgment carries an active price: 0.98% a year against a 0.72% median for broad commodity futures funds, with index-tracking rivals like BCI (0.26%) and CMDY (0.29%) far cheaper.
- Risk-based weighting means the sector mix can sit well away from a production-weighted benchmark, so results can diverge from the standard commodity index in either direction.sec.gov
- The prospectus is blunt that commodity-linked derivatives may be considered speculative and can fluctuate widely on macro and commodity-specific shocks. A stable risk profile is the aim, not a promise.sec.gov
FTGC Holdings
- Other
- 40
- 70%
- US Dollar
FTGC 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 | FTGC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +37.0% |
| 1 month | +2.0% |
| 3 months | +13.9% |
| 1 year | +44.7% |
| 3 years | +17.2% |
| 5 years | +15.1% |
| 10 years | +8.8% |
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 | FTGC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +37.0% | |
| 2025 | +14.8% | |
| 2024 | +10.0% | |
| 2023 | −5.4% | |
| 2022 | +17.4% | |
| 2021 | +27.9% | |
| 2020 | +2.2% |
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FTGC Dividends
- 14.14%
- $4.41
- $0.17 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $3.66 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.21 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.19 |
FTGC Risk
- 13.4%
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.
- 0.90
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.
- −22.6%
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.
- 0.92
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FTGC Cost
- The middle half of Broad Commodity Futures funds
- Median 0.72%
17 of the 21 Broad Commodity Futures funds charge less.