Which returned more over the last year, FTXN or IYE?

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTXN returned +48.8% and IYE +50.0%.

Which is cheaper, FTXN or IYE?

IYE is cheaper, by 0.23 percentage points a year. That is about $23 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do FTXN and IYE overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 78% of FTXN and 67% of IYE by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

Share on X Download as PDF

Compare their flows Ask IQ about these two funds

FTXN vs IYE: Differences, Returns & Fees

FTXN and IYE hold 68% of their weight in the same names, and IYE returned +50.0% over the year. Net assets on Oct 9, 2026: $1.1bn for First Trust Nasdaq Oil & Gas ETF and $1.7bn for iShares U.S. Energy ETF.

IYE costs 0.23 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 1.2 points; IYE is 1.5 times larger.

	FTXN	IYE
Expense ratio	0.60%	0.37%
Net assets	$1.1bn	$1.7bn
Total return, 1 year	+48.8%	+50.0%
What it tracks	not read by ETFIQ	Russell 1000 Energy RIC 22
Holdings in common	68%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund	56.3%	71.7%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 9, 2026.

+48.8%

FTXN total return, 1 year

+50.0%

IYE total return, 1 year

0.60%

FTXN expense ratio

0.37%

IYE expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, FTXN and IYE hold 68% 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 Oct 9, 2026.

50%

half

68% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding FTXN IYE

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. 7.91% 23.13%

Chevron Corporation 7.75% 15.82%

ConocoPhillips 7.63% 6.41%

Marathon Petroleum Corporation 8.26% 5.12%

Valero Energy Corporation 4.55% 4.78%

Phillips 66 4.10% 4.31%

EOG Resources, Inc. 5.33% 3.16%

Kinder Morgan, Inc. 2.82% 2.61%

The Williams Companies, Inc. 2.36% 3.47%

Cheniere Energy, Inc. 2.34% 2.42%

ONEOK, Inc. 2.34% 2.34%

Devon Energy Corporation 3.43% 2.27%

Only in FTXN

Venture Global, Inc. (Class A) 2.46%

SM Energy Company 1.08%

PBF Energy Inc. 0.78%

CVR Energy, Inc. 0.68%

Crescent Energy Company 0.67%

Calumet, Inc. 0.56%

Delek US Holdings, Inc. 0.50%

Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. 0.50%

Only in IYE

TECHNIPFMC PLC 1.13%

FIRST SOLAR 0.75%

NEXTPOWER INC 0.54%

DT MIDSTREAM 0.53%

VIPER ENERGY INC CLASS A 0.33%

ENPHASE ENERGY 0.18%

SOLV ENERGY CLASS A INC 0.04%

X-ENERGY INC CLASS A 0.03%

Check overlap with more funds →

On the same fields

FTXN

First Trust Nasdaq Oil & Gas ETF

IYE

iShares U.S. Energy ETF

Where it sits Stock ETF Stock ETF

Issuer First Trust iShares

What it is Tracks an index Tracks an index of U.S. Energy

Total return, 1 year +48.8% +50.0%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +31.5 pts +32.8 pts

Expense ratio 0.60% 0.37%

Already in the S&P 500 78.3% 67.1%

Holdings 49 41

Net assets $1.1bn $1.7bn

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

FTXN in plain words

FTXN tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +48.8% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.60% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 78% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 49 positions, with the top ten at 56.3%.

IYE in plain words

IYE tracks an index of U.S. Energy. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +50.0% with distributions reinvested, against +17.3% for the S&P 500. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.37% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 9, 2026, 67% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 41 positions, with the top ten at 71.7%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, FTXN or IYE?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, FTXN returned +48.8% and IYE +50.0%.
Which is cheaper, FTXN or IYE?: IYE is cheaper, by 0.23 percentage points a year. That is about $23 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do FTXN and IYE overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 78% of FTXN and 67% of IYE by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds.

Other comparisons

FTXN vs IXC FTXN vs VDE FTXN vs XLE FTXN vs OIH IYE vs MLPA IYE vs XOP IYE vs VDE IYE vs XLE

FTXN on its own →IYE on its own →Hold both: look the portfolio through →Rankings →Standards and sources →

Where these figures came from

FTXN filings on SEC EDGAR ↗FTXN prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for FTXN ↗IYE filings on SEC EDGAR ↗IYE prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for IYE ↗

ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure; a link is not an endorsement. A comparison is not a recommendation.

How this is computed

Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.

Cite this pageCitation, APA and Markdown

ETFIQ, FTXN against IYE, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/ftxn-vs-iye

Open data

Free to use with attribution for figures ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms.