First Trust Nasdaq Food & Beverage ETF
$21.92−0.13 (−0.60%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $21M
- 1Y return
- +4.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.61%
- Holdings
- 30
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.00
- 52W range
The ETF.net FTXG 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 26Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 75Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 34Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 35Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 64Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 43Category rank
Our read on FTXG
DFTXG skips the broad staples grab bag and stays in the grocery aisle: about 30 US food and beverage stocks, picked and weighted by a momentum and profitability screen rather than size alone.
The fund seeks to track the performance of the Nasdaq US Smart Food & Beverage Index before fees and expenses by substantially replicating that index.
Why people hold it
- A focused food-and-drink sleeve rather than a whole-sector basket: roughly 30 US names tracking the Nasdaq US Smart Food & Beverage Index.ftportfolios.com
- Weighting leans on momentum and profitability, so the biggest packaged-food giant does not automatically claim the biggest slot.ftportfolios.com
- Straightforward plumbing: a 1940 Act fund that substantially replicates its index and pays out quarterly.ftportfolios.com
Worth knowing
- At 0.60% a year it costs more than the typical consumer staples ETF, and well above cap-weighted options like VDC (0.09%) and XLP (0.08%).
- A small fund that trades lightly, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than the heavily traded broad-staples funds in the group.
- About 30 stocks in one corner of staples: news at a single company moves this fund more than it would a broad sector basket.
FTXG Holdings
- Stocks
- 30
- 58%
- KO
Sectors
- Cons. Staples94.5%
- Materials4.3%
- Industrials1.2%
Geography
- United States100.00%
FTXG 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 | FTXG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +6.4% |
| 1 month | −6.1% |
| 3 months | +1.4% |
| 1 year | +4.9% |
| 3 years | −0.6% |
| 5 years | +0.8% |
| 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 | FTXG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +6.4% | |
| 2025 | −6.5% | |
| 2024 | −2.5% | |
| 2023 | −6.5% | |
| 2022 | +6.1% | |
| 2021 | +13.5% | |
| 2020 | +6.6% |
FTXG in the news
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FTXG Dividends
- 2.61%
- $0.58
- $0.13 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.20 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.67 |
FTXG Risk
- 12.8%
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.
- −0.28
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.
- −21.7%
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.
- 0.48
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FTXG Cost
- The middle half of Consumer Staples (Broad) funds
- Median 0.38%
8 of the 12 Consumer Staples (Broad) funds charge less.