FNGO vs FNGU: which held to its multiple?
Over three months against its own daily promise, FNGO finished 2.4 points short and FNGU 7.7 points short. MicroSectors FANG Index 2X Leveraged ETNs due January 8, 2038 and MicroSectors FANG+ 3X Leveraged ETNs.
FNGO returned +22.3% while 2 times FNGS's move would have been +24.4%
FNGU returned +29.6% while 3 times FNGS's move would have been +36.7%
A percentile among the 470 leveraged ETFs, long, over three months. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All leveraged ETFs ranked by it → How it is computed →
Performance, window by window
| Total return | Multiple would give | Difference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | FNGO | FNGU | FNGO | FNGU | FNGO | FNGU |
| 1 month | +4.1% | +4.1% | +4.7% | +7.0% | −0.6 pts | −2.9 pts |
| 3 months | +22.3% | +29.6% | +24.4% | +36.7% | −2.1 pts | −7.0 pts |
| 6 months | +76.4% | +111.8% | +71.4% | +107.1% | +4.9 pts | +4.7 pts |
| 1 year | +26.4% | +18.5% | +35.9% | +53.9% | −9.5 pts | −35.4 pts |
| 3 years | +369.4% | not published | not meaningful | not published | not meaningful | not published |
| Since launch FNGO Nov 2019 · FNGU Feb 2025 | +1669.1% | +42.6% | not meaningful | +112.3% | not meaningful | −69.7 pts |
FNGO and FNGU over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →
On the same fields
FNGO and FNGU on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
FNGO in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: FNGO returned +22.3% where its own daily promise gave +24.7%, 2.4 points short. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and 2 times FNGS's 12.2% implies +24.4%, which makes FNGO look 2.1 points short. 0.3 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any 2 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. FNGO aims to return +2 times FNGS's move each day, then resets. Over one day it does that. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not +2 times the period's move: in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less, and in a steady run it can be more. FNGS moved at 20% annualized over that window. That is what decides how far the two figures separate: the same fund on a calm underlying and a violent one is a different product.
FNGU in plain words
Three months to Sep 30, 2026: FNGU returned +29.6% where its own daily promise gave +37.3%, 7.7 points short. Read the multiple against the whole window instead and 3 times FNGS's 12.2% implies +36.7%, which makes FNGU look 7.0 points short. 0.6 of that is daily compounding, which happens to any 3 times fund over the same path, and the rest is the fund. FNGU aims to return +3 times FNGS's move each day, then resets. Over longer, the daily results compound, so the total is not +3 times the period's move: in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less, and in a steady run it can be more.
Questions people ask
- Which came closer to its stated multiple, FNGO or FNGU?
- Over the window to Sep 30, 2026, FNGO finished 2.1 points from what its multiple implies and FNGU finished 7.0 points from its own, so FNGO came closer. Neither figure predicts the next window: it depends on how much the underlying moves about.
- Are FNGO and FNGU levered on the same thing?
- Yes. Both are levered on the big technology names, FNGO at +2 times and FNGU at +3 times the daily move.
- Which one decays faster, FNGO or FNGU?
- Decay follows how much the underlying moves about. Over this window FNGO’s moved at 20% annualized and FNGU’s at 20%, so FNGO has the rougher ride and, at the same multiple, loses more to compounding.
- Can I hold FNGO or FNGU for a year?
- Both reset every day, so the multiple in the name applies to a single day and the daily results compound. Over a year the total is not the multiple times the year’s move, and in a market that falls and comes back it is reliably less. ETFIQ makes no recommendation either way.
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