Which returned more over the last year, EMLP or SMIG?

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, EMLP returned +14.8% and SMIG +9.7%.

Which is cheaper, EMLP or SMIG?

SMIG is cheaper, by 0.35 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $35. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do EMLP and SMIG overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 43% of EMLP and 35% of SMIG by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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EMLP vs SMIG: how they differ

EMLP and SMIG hold 8% of their weight in the same names, and EMLP returned +14.8% over the year. First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund and Bahl & Gaynor Small/Mid Cap Income Growth ETF.

SMIG costs 0.35 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5.1 points; EMLP is 2.8 times larger.

	EMLP	SMIG
Expense ratio	0.95%	0.60%
Net assets, EMLP as of Oct 9, 2026 and SMIG as of Jun 30, 2026	$4.1bn	$1.5bn
Total return, 1 year	+14.8%	+9.7%
Holdings in common	8%
Nasdaq-100, total return, 1 year	+23.6%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	42.7%	42.3%
Below its high	4.8%, high on Jul 23, 2026	6.4%, high on Aug 14, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

+14.8%

EMLP total return, 1 year

+9.7%

SMIG total return, 1 year

0.95%

EMLP expense ratio

0.60%

SMIG expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, EMLP and SMIG hold 8% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026.

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8% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding EMLP SMIG

CMS Energy Corporation 2.06% 1.76%

Targa Resources Corp. 1.31% 4.89%

Plains GP Holdings, L.P. (Class A) 3.91% 1.28%

Atmos Energy Corporation 1.29% 1.16%

Alliant Energy Corporation 1.02% 3.05%

DT Midstream, Inc. 0.87% 4.19%

NiSource Inc. 0.76% 3.30%

Only in EMLP

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. 8.62%

Energy Transfer LP 7.58%

MPLX LP 4.26%

Kinder Morgan, Inc. 3.88%

National Fuel Gas Company 3.88%

PPL Corporation 2.88%

The Southern Company 2.83%

Duke Energy Corporation 2.53%

Only in SMIG

Silicon Motion Technology Corp 6.66%

Snap-on Inc 4.70%

Victory Capital Holdings Inc 4.30%

Hubbell Inc 4.01%

Gildan Activewear Inc 3.78%

Packaging Corp of America 3.30%

Evercore Inc 3.17%

First Financial Bancorp 2.99%

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On the same fields

EMLP

First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund

SMIG

Bahl & Gaynor Small/Mid Cap Income Growth ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust Bahl & Gaynor

What it is Actively managed Actively managed

Total return, 1 year +14.8% +9.7%

S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%

Gap to the S&P 500 −2.5 pts −7.6 pts

Expense ratio 0.95% 0.60%

Already in the S&P 500 42.9% 35.4%

Holdings 58 38

Net assets, EMLP as of Oct 9, 2026 and SMIG as of Jun 30, 2026 $4.1bn $1.5bn

EMLP and SMIG on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

EMLP in plain words

EMLP is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +14.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.95% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 43% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 58 positions, with the top ten at 42.7%. It sat 4.8% below its high of Jul 23, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

SMIG in plain words

SMIG is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +9.7% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500 and +23.6% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.60% a year. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 35% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 38 positions, with the top ten at 42.3%. It sat 6.4% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, EMLP or SMIG?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, EMLP returned +14.8% and SMIG +9.7%.
Which is cheaper, EMLP or SMIG?: SMIG is cheaper, by 0.35 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $35. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do EMLP and SMIG overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 43% of EMLP and 35% of SMIG by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

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Where these figures came from

EMLP filings on SEC EDGAR ↗EMLP prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for EMLP ↗SMIG filings on SEC EDGAR ↗SMIG prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

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How this is computed

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

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