Strive Natural Resources and Security ETF
$46.05−0.24 (−0.52%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.49%
- Fund size
- $77M
- 1Y return
- +17.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.88%
- Holdings
- 52
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.92
- 52W range
The ETF.net FTWO Grade
Score 35 of 100 sits in the D 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 35Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 81Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 32Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 31Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 33Category rank
Our read on FTWO
DAn upstream-only take on natural resources: roughly 50 companies that drill, mine and grow the raw material, rather than the pipelines and processors further down the chain. A young fund priced above the category norm.
The fund invests primarily in upstream natural-resource companies involved in exploring, extracting, or developing resources. It normally commits at least 80% of net assets to companies engaged in extracting energy, minerals, and agricultural products.
Why people hold it
- The mandate is specific: normally at least 80% of net assets in companies extracting energy, minerals and agricultural products. Upstream, where commodity moves land first.
- Roughly 50 holdings, so individual names carry real weight instead of being diluted across a sprawling basket.
- Three resource legs in one wrapper: energy, minerals and agriculture, all at the extraction stage.
- Distributions are paid on a quarterly schedule.
Worth knowing
- At 0.49% a year, it costs more than the category median and more than established rivals such as NANR (0.35%), IGE (0.37%) and GNR (0.40%).
- It trades thinly next to the category's heavyweights, which makes wider bid-ask spreads more likely.
- Launched in 2023 and still modest in size, it has a shorter record and a smaller asset base than the long-running funds it competes against.
FTWO Holdings
- Stocks
- 52
- 53%
- CEG
Sectors
- Industrials33.8%
- Materials29.7%
- Energy25.5%
- Utilities10.0%
- Cons. Staples1.1%
Geography
- United States74.05%
- Canada25.06%
- United Kingdom0.89%
FTWO 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 | FTWO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.2% |
| 1 month | −3.6% |
| 3 months | +5.0% |
| 1 year | +17.5% |
| 3 years | +25.2% |
| 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 | FTWO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.2% | |
| 2025 | +43.1% | |
| 2024 | +15.0% | |
| 2023 | +1.5% |
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FTWO Dividends
- 0.88%
- $0.41
- $0.06 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.04 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.07 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.14 |
| Sep 27, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.0068 |
FTWO Risk
- 17.0%
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.
- 1.13
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.
- −18.2%
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.
- 0.63
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FTWO Cost
- The middle half of Natural Resources funds
- Median 0.46%
8 of the 14 Natural Resources funds charge less.