Global X - MLP & Energy Infrastructure ETF
$72.61+0.25 (+0.35%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $3.5B
- 1Y return
- +24.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.24%
- Holdings
- 29
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $72.36
- 52W range
The ETF.net MLPX Grade
Score 56 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.AScore 71Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.DScore 32Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 63Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 66Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 46Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 71Category rank
Our read on MLPX
BA focused bet on the toll roads of American energy: roughly 30 pipeline and infrastructure names tracking the Solactive MLP & Energy Infrastructure Index, running since 2013 at 0.45% a year.
The fund seeks to provide investment results that generally correspond, before fees and expenses, to the price and yield performance of the Solactive MLP & Energy Infrastructure Index.
Why people hold it
- 0.45% a year, against a peer-group median near 0.79% for energy sector ETFs. Cheap shelf space for a narrow corner of the market.
- Concentrated on purpose: around 30 pipeline and energy infrastructure names via the Solactive MLP & Energy Infrastructure Index, so the midstream theme isn't watered down.
- Trading since 2013 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund with steady volume, which tends to keep spreads manageable on retail-size orders.
- Distributions land on a quarterly schedule, so the payout rhythm is predictable even as the amounts move with the underlying cash flows.
Worth knowing
- One sector, one theme. Energy infrastructure rides commodity cycles and rate moves, so it can travel well out of step with a broad market fund.
- With around 30 holdings, individual pipeline operators carry real weight and one company's news can move the whole fund.
- Not the cheapest ticket in the cohort: XES charges 0.35%, though it buys oil services companies rather than midstream infrastructure.
MLPX Holdings
- Stocks
- 29
- 66%
- TRP
Sectors
- Energy100.0%
Geography
- United States75.36%
- Canada24.64%
MLPX Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
MLPX$12,400
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 | MLPX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +23.4% |
| 1 month | −2.7% |
| 3 months | +0.1% |
| 1 year | +24.0% |
| 3 years | +25.2% |
| 5 years | +21.9% |
| 10 years | +10.9% |
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 | MLPX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +23.4% | |
| 2025 | +4.9% | |
| 2024 | +42.9% | |
| 2023 | +15.7% | |
| 2022 | +21.5% | |
| 2021 | +39.6% | |
| 2020 | −20.3% |
MLPX in the news
MLPX Dividends
- 4.24%
- $3.07
- $0.76 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | $0.76 |
| May 11, 2026 | May 14, 2026 | $0.76 |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Feb 12, 2026 | $0.74 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 7, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Nov 7, 2025 | Nov 17, 2025 | $0.73 |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Aug 14, 2025 | $0.73 |
| May 7, 2025 | May 14, 2025 | $0.72 |
| Feb 7, 2025 | Feb 14, 2025 | $0.69 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 7, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Nov 7, 2024 | Nov 15, 2024 | $0.65 |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Aug 14, 2024 | $0.65 |
| May 7, 2024 | May 15, 2024 | $0.65 |
MLPX Risk
- 14.8%
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.
- 1.41
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.
- −19.7%
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.
- 0.28
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MLPX Cost
0.45%
MLPX0.45%
- The middle half of Energy Sector funds
- Median 0.77%
1 of the 7 Energy Sector funds charge less.