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First Trust Nasdaq Oil & Gas ETF
$42.11+0.99 (+2.40%)
- 0.60%
- $1.1B
- +56.5%
- 1.74%
- 0.6M sh
- $40.60
- low $26.46high $41.96
The ETF.net FTXN Grade
B
Score 57 out of 100
- 5 of 11
Score 57 of 100 falls in the B band. A is 70 or higher, B 55 to under 70, C 40 to under 55, D 25 to under 40, F under 25.
Cost
The fund’s net expense ratio, ranked against its category.D31 out of 100Rank 8 of 11Mission
Whether the fund did what it promised, tested against its stated mandate.A71 out of 100Rank 1 of 6Risk
How the fund held up when markets fell: downside volatility, drawdowns and tail loss.B55 out of 100Rank 4 of 11Tradability
How easy the fund is to trade: daily volume, and how far its price strays from net asset value.A72 out of 100Rank 4 of 11Holdings
How concentrated the fund is, and how complete and current its disclosed holdings are.A78 out of 100Rank 3 of 11Durability
Whether the fund is likely to stay open, judged by its age, its assets and its issuer’s assets.A75 out of 100Rank 2 of 11
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
- 50
- 56%
- MPC
Sectors
- Energy99.4%
- Materials0.6%
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$15,654
Returns run to the Oct 12, 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 | +49.2% |
| 1 month | +0.3% |
| 3 months | +18.9% |
| 1 year | +56.5% |
| 3 years | +14.4% |
| 5 years | +17.8% |
| 10 years | +9.9% |
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 | +49.2% | |
| 2025 | −0.2% | |
| 2024 | +4.1% | |
| 2023 | +4.9% | |
| 2022 | +47.4% | |
| 2021 | +69.2% | |
| 2020 | −28.1% |
FTXN in the news
FTXN Dividends
- 1.74%
- $0.72
- $0.24 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
FTXN Risk
- 21.7%
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.
- 0.37
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.
Other funds in Oil & Gas Producers
- BPBOGPortfolio Building Block Integrated Oil and Gas and Exploration and Production Index ETFExpense ratio 0.13%1 year return —
- BIEOiShares U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETFExpense ratio 0.37%1 year return +70.7%
- CTPYPTortoise North American Pipeline ETFExpense ratio 0.40%1 year return +23.7%
- CIEZiShares U.S. Oil Equipment & Services ETFExpense ratio 0.37%1 year return +53.3%
- DPXEInvesco Energy Exploration & Production ETFExpense ratio 0.67%1 year return +59.4%