First Trust Growth Strength ETF
$38.27−0.23 (−0.59%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $1.3B
- 1Y return
- +6.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.08%
- Holdings
- 50
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $38.42
- 52W range
The ETF.net FTGS Grade
Score 45 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 6Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 76Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 66Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 44Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 68Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 38Category rank
Our read on FTGS
CGrowth with a credit check. FTGS holds about 50 US names that clear screens for return on equity, long-term debt against cash, and revenue and cash flow growth. Growth that funds itself, rather than borrows for it.
The Fund seeks results generally corresponding to the price and yield, before fees and expenses, of The Growth StrengthTM Index. Normally, it invests at least 80% of net assets in the common stocks and REITs comprising that Index.
Why people hold it
- A quality gate wearing a growth label: return on equity, long-term debt versus cash, and revenue plus cash flow growth. Balance sheet first, story second.finance.yahoo.com
- About 50 holdings, with REITs eligible alongside common stocks. Concentrated and a little unusual for a growth fund, which is the reason to hold it next to a cap-weighted index.
- The portfolio sticks to the mandate: at least 80% of net assets in the index's stocks and REITs, US large-cap growth, no drift into side bets.
- Since its 2022 launch it has grown into a multi-billion-dollar fund and trades regularly, so ordinary-sized orders are not fighting an empty book.
Worth knowing
- 0.60% a year is the entry fee, while plain-vanilla category giants like IUSG and VYM charge under a tenth of that. The screen has to earn the gap.
- With roughly 50 names, single stocks and sector tilts carry real weight, so results can wander well away from broad growth benchmarks in either direction.
- The live record starts in late 2022, a short history for judging how a fundamental screen behaves across different markets.
FTGS Holdings
- Stocks
- 50
- 24%
- NEM
Sectors
- Technology36.2%
- Health Care16.0%
- Financials13.9%
- Industrials11.0%
- Consumer Discr.6.8%
- Cons. Staples5.9%
- Communication5.3%
- Materials2.7%
- Energy2.2%
Geography
- United States92.05%
- Switzerland4.13%
- Singapore2.02%
- Ireland1.79%
FTGS 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 | FTGS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.9% |
| 1 month | −2.7% |
| 3 months | +4.8% |
| 1 year | +6.6% |
| 3 years | +17.9% |
| 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 | FTGS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.9% | |
| 2025 | +12.8% | |
| 2024 | +15.8% | |
| 2023 | +33.7% | |
| 2022 | +1.1% |
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FTGS Dividends
- 0.08%
- $0.03
- $0.0055 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.0055 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.0036 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.01 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.05 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.02 |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 | $0.03 |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Mar 31, 2023 | $0.06 |
FTGS Risk
- 13.9%
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.
- 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.
- −20.0%
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.
- 1.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FTGS Cost
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
31 of the 35 US Growth Index funds charge less.