First Trust Nasdaq Oil & Gas ETF
$39.01+0.32 (+0.82%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $159M
- 1Y return
- +40.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.68%
- Holdings
- 49
- Volume · 30D
- 0.5M sh
- NAV per share
- $39.30
- 52W range
The ETF.net FTXN Grade
Score 55 of 100 sits in the B 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 31Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 71Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 51Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 65Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 78Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 54Category rank
Our read on FTXN
BMost oil and gas ETFs just hand you the biggest drillers by size. FTXN screens the US oil and gas patch on factor signals instead, holding about 40 names weighted by those scores. A rules-based tilt on a famously cyclical sector.
The Fund seeks to track the performance of the Nasdaq US Smart Oil & Gas Index before fees and expenses through an indexing strategy.
Why people hold it
- The "Smart" in the index name is literal: holdings are selected and sized by factor ranking, not market cap alone, so the largest producer doesn't automatically get the largest slot.ftportfolios.com
- About 40 holdings, all oil and gas. No utilities, no renewables filler, no diluting the theme you actually came for.ftportfolios.com
- Running since 2016 and it sticks tightly to the Nasdaq index it names in its prospectus. What the documents promise is what the portfolio delivers.
- Trades actively for a niche sector fund, so getting in and out is rarely the hard part.
Worth knowing
- 0.60% a year is the price of the factor machinery. Plain cap-weighted rivals like XOP (0.35%) and IEO (0.37%) charge roughly half that for the same corner of the market.
- Concentrated, single-sector equity: the ride tends to follow the price of the barrel, with no defensive ballast when energy turns.
- A mid-sized fund, not one of the category's household-name giants, and it pays distributions quarterly rather than monthly.
FTXN Holdings
- Stocks
- 49
- 56%
- MPC
Sectors
- Energy100.0%
Geography
- United States100.00%
FTXN Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
FTXN$14,090
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 | FTXN |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +39.5% |
| 1 month | −4.0% |
| 3 months | +13.7% |
| 1 year | +40.9% |
| 3 years | +12.0% |
| 5 years | +20.2% |
| 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 | FTXN |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +39.5% | |
| 2025 | −0.2% | |
| 2024 | +4.1% | |
| 2023 | +4.9% | |
| 2022 | +47.4% | |
| 2021 | +69.2% | |
| 2020 | −28.1% |
FTXN in the news
FTXN Dividends
- 1.68%
- $0.65
- $0.12 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jun 28, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 28, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.22 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 | $0.18 |
FTXN Risk
- 21.4%
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.
- 0.49
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.
- −30.0%
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.
- −0.05
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FTXN Cost
0.60%
FTXN0.60%
- The middle half of Oil & Gas Producers funds
- Median 0.39%
6 of the 10 Oil & Gas Producers funds charge less.