First Trust Natural Gas ETF FCG AMEX · Financials · United States
$28.49 +0.32% +$0.09
Summary
First Trust Natural Gas ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 42. The ten largest make up 43% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.59%
- Fund size
- $600.2M
- Positions
- 42
- Dividend yield
- 2.31%
- Running since
- 2007
What speaks for it
- Easy to buy and sell: about $23.7M changes hands a day.
- It has been running since 2007.
What to watch
- 99% of the fund is in one sector (Energy).
- 92% of the fund is in one country (United States).
- Costs of 0.59% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.45%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 37% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -5.1%
- 3 months
- -5.5%
- This year
- +21%
- 1 year
- +18%
- 3 years
- +15%
- 5 years
- +52%
- 10 years
- +18%
- Avg. market cap
- $27.2B
- P/E
- 10.0x
- Forward P/E
- 9.1x
- P/S
- 1.9x
- P/B
- 1.4x
- P/FCF
- 9.9x
- EV/EBITDA
- 5.3x
- Dividend yield
- 3.09%
- ROIC
- 10.7%
- ROE
- 13.9%
- Gross margin
- 51.2%
- Operating margin
- 19.2%
- Net margin
- -8.2%
- Payout ratio
- 31.0%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 1.6x
- Beta
- -0.11
Weighted average of the 41 largest companies, which make up 100% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Moderately concentrated- 1 COConocoPhillips COP 5.1%
- 2 EOEOG Resources EOG 4.9%
- 3 RRRange Resources Corporation RRC 4.4%
- 4 OXOccidental Petroleum OXY 4.4%
- 5 DVDevon Energy DVN 4.2%
- 6 WEWestern Midstream Partners, LP WES 4.1%
- 7 EQEQT Corporation EQT 4.1%
- 8 FADiamondback Energy, Inc. FANG 4.1%
- 9 APAPA Corporation APA 3.9%
- 10 PRPermian Resources Corporation PR 3.8%
Positions in the fund: 42. The ten largest make up 43% of it.
Composition as of Nov 6, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Energy 99%
- Technology 0.7%
By country
- United States 92%
- Canada 4.7%
- Australia 3.0%
- Colombia 0.1%
By company size
- Large cap 57%
- Mid cap 32%
- Small cap 9.7%
- Micro cap 1.2%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest sector: Energy (99%). Largest country: United States (92%). Largest size group: Large cap (57%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $59.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,828
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $59.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $2,828.
How has it done?
Growing slowly- A year on average, 10 years
- +1.7%
- Deepest drop
- -37%
- Yearly volatility
- 29%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 1.7%. Deepest drop in these years: 37% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 2.31%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.19
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.66 per share, which is 2.31% of today's price. The last payment was $0.19 on Sep 24, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $23.7M
- Shares a day
- 830K
On an average day about $23.7M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather cheap- P/E of the companies inside
- 10.0
- Average Bulios Score
- 66 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 64%
- Fairly valued 10%
- Overvalued 26%
On average the companies inside trade for 10.0 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 64% of the rated weight comes out as undervalued.
Counted from its largest companies (41), which make up 100% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Similar funds
Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PX PXE Invesco Energy Exploration & Production ETF | United States | 0.67% | $84.1M | +31% | Pays out | 61% |
LN LNGX Global X - U.S. Natural Gas ETF | United States | 0.45% | $50.4M | +17% | Pays out | 60% |
XO XOP SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF | United States | 0.35% | $2.85B | +31% | Pays out | 58% |
IE IEO iShares U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF | United States | 0.37% | $539.3M | +40% | Pays out | 45% |
FX FXN First Trust Energy AlphaDEX Fund | United States | 0.63% | $359.8M | +35% | Pays out | 45% |
GU GUSH Direxion Daily S&P Oil & Gas Exp. & Prod. Bull 2X ETF | United States | 0.94% | $227.7M | +52% | Pays out | 44% |
