How is First Trust Natural Gas ETF (FCG) doing?

First Trust Natural Gas ETF is an exchange-traded fund. Here is how it has done against the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

market beat

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First Trust Natural Gas ETF shares are up 25% over the past year, 8 points ahead of the S&P 500. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 77th percentile on market beat and the 22nd on staying power. It appears on 2 of our dashboards, including 3rd on “What are gold, oil and bitcoin doing?”.

$29.93+25% in a yearWorth $600.7M

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

FCG against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. First Trust Natural Gas ETF +25%, the S&P 500 +16%.

FCGS&P 500

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Energy, 45 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Oil & gas producers and services — the commodity-price trade.

FCG, past year+25%27 of 45 in the group

Rest of the group+41%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

First Trust Natural Gas ETF is +25% over the past year, against +41% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 27th of 45 in Energy.

FCGRest of the group

Best in the groupVLO Valero Energy+167%MPC Marathon Petroleum+141%DINO HF Sinclair+132%

Worst in the groupEXE Expand Energy−19%EQT EQT−6%FTHI First Trust BuyWrite Income ETF+1%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual First Trust Natural Gas ETF typically moves 2.3% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 84% of large US funds.

Typical day2.3%about $0.68 a share

Its usual2.5%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.2×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±4.6%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−20%now 9% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks-12%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.3

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.48%

FCG on our dashboards

Every question where First Trust Natural Gas ETF appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with FCG highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which ETFs actually beat the S&P 500? Funds and commodities	8930 of 52 wks	22 of 60	vs S&P, 1Y +16 pts · vs S&P, 3Y −68 pts · Weeks won, 3Y 49%
What are gold, oil and bitcoin doing? Funds and commodities	66Neutral	3 of 13	1M −6.3% · 3M +8.5% · YTD +28%

Go deeper on Stox

FCG’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see FCG’s full profile on Stox.

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