FGSI FT Vest Growth Strength & Target Income ETF
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Over the year to Oct 30, 2026, FGSI paid 8.2% in cash and returned 5.4% in total, against 5.0% for FTGS.
Promise check: PartlyOver the year to Oct 30, 2026, FGSI paid 8.2% in cash and returned 5.4% in total, covering 65.9% of its payout.
FGSI risk and return scorecard
vs FTGS · Jul 2025 to Oct 2026 · 69 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records; risk-free rate: U.S. Treasury, Daily Treasury Bill Rates, 13-week coupon equivalent Method · Data
Money in and out
Net fund flows · Oct 30, 2026What you earned
What it paid
13 distributions · latest Oct 21, 2026More on FGSI
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$19.91−2.0%1 day, priceClose, Oct 30, 2026
Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 30, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
| Window | Total return | Cash paid | Price | FTGS | Ahead or behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 30 – Oct 30, 2026 | −1.1% | 0.7% | −1.8% | −1.2% | +0.1 pts |
| 3M Jul 31 – Oct 30, 2026 | −2.0% | 2.1% | −4.0% | −2.1% | +0.1 pts |
| 6M May 1 – Oct 30, 2026 | +4.2% | 4.3% | −0.1% | +4.1% | +0.1 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026 | +6.2% | 7.0% | −0.9% | +6.0% | +0.2 pts |
| 1Y Oct 30, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026 | +5.4% | 8.2% | −3.0% | +5.0% | +0.4 pts |
| Since launch Jun 26, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026 | +11.0% | 11.3% | −0.6% | +11.5% | −0.5 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Jun 26, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026 | +8.1% | – | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Jun 2025: no 3 years windows.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
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How much of its payouts the fund's total return covered, ranked against 166 income ETFs not writing on a single company. 100 is best. How it is computed
FGSI paid 8.2% in cash over the year and returned 5.4% in total, less than it paid out.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 30, 2026FGSI: in the 20 trading days to Oct 30, 2026, nothing net moved.
Oct 30, 2026
Oct 26, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026
Aug 1, 2025 to Jul 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
FGSI, net flow each trading day over the 65 sessions from Jul 31, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 0 days, of the 19 days with daily data; the other 46 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
No money in or out. 46 days missing.
FGSI, net flow each trading day over the 251 sessions from Oct 31, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 0 days, of the 19 days with daily data; the other 232 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
No money in or out. 232 days missing.
FGSI, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 31, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026: money came in on 0 days and went out on 0 days, of the 19 days with daily data; the other 381 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
No money in or out. 381 days missing.
Daily data starts Oct 6, 2026.
How this is computed
Computed by ETFIQ from First Trust’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value. Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for FGSI, back to May 2025, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare FGSI with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months19 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year4 weeks
Net flow into FGSI each week, Oct 6, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outMay 2025 to Oct 2026
FGSI, money in and money out each month from May 2025 to Jul 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from FGSI’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Oct 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 16 months listed, money came in on net in 4 and went out in 3.
Every bar is from FGSI’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 16 months listed, money came in on net in 4 and went out in 3.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions. Months summed from daily data: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Last checked Oct 31, 2026.
FGSI key stats
FGSI return of capital and tax
Trading
as of Oct 30, 2026
Liquid with care: its typical spread is 0.34% of its price.
FGSI for holders outside the US
13 distributions for FGSI, $0.1372 to $0.1465 a share and $0.1406 in the middle, Oct 21, 2025 to Oct 21, 2026. 1 further ex-date is expected with no amount the issuer has declared, so it is not drawn.
FGSI pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.1402 a share, which went ex on Oct 21, 2026, with payment about 10 days later. The next has not been declared. On its own cadence of about 30 days the ex-date falls near Nov 20, 2026; that date is an ETFIQ projection, not the issuer’s.
Expected distributions for FGSI. A projected row carries the fund’s own spacing forward from its last ex-date, at the last amount paid. Neither is an issuer statement. Source: ETFIQ.
Cash distributions per share for FGSI. Source: ETFIQ from Tiingo end-of-day distributions.
Source: ETFIQ, from Tiingo end-of-day distributions.
How much of what it paid out did its total return cover?
That is the share of the 166 income ETFs not writing on a single company sitting at or below FGSI.
One year only, and a ratio of two published numbers: it says nothing about where a distribution came from. Where the fund sits in this set, not a rating. Do not average it with another category's score.
Total return as a share of the cash paid: 65.9% · 46th pct, −231.7% to 1,866.7% across 166.
FGSI top ten by weight, 22.0% of the fund, of its 51 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Oct 30, 2026. The options the fund writes are not positions of this kind and are not listed. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: First Trust’s daily holdings file. Updated each trading day.
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About FGSI
How we measure
12 seats on FGSI, as of Oct 30, 2026: 3 Mixed, 8 Challenges, 1 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about FGSI
- How much has FGSI paid over the last year?
- Over the year to Oct 30, 2026, FGSI paid 8.2% of its starting price in cash distributions, while the price fell 3.0%.
- Is FGSI ahead of FTGS?
- Over the year to Oct 30, 2026, with every distribution reinvested, FGSI returned +5.4% against +5.0% for First Trust Growth Strength ETF (FTGS), so a holder was about even with it by 0.4 points.
- How often does FGSI pay, and how much?
- FGSI pays monthly. The latest distribution annualizes to 8.4% at its price on Oct 30, 2026, which is not a promise; the next one can differ.
- Is the FGSI distribution return of capital?
- First Trust estimates 53% of the distribution paid Oct 30, 2026 was return of capital. That is a tax characterization from the fund's own 19a-1 notice, not a measure of erosion.
- When does FGSI next pay a distribution?
- FGSI pays monthly. The last distribution went ex on Oct 21, 2026 at $0.1402 a share. The next is not declared; on a cadence of about 30 days the ex-date falls near Nov 20, 2026, which is an ETFIQ projection. Payment usually follows the ex-date by 10 days.
- What does FGSI cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.85% a year.
- How much of FGSI’s distribution is return of capital?
- First Trust’s Rule 19a-1 notice estimates 53.0% of the distribution paid Oct 30, 2026 was return of capital. Across its notices for distributions paid May 29, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, the estimate is 75.9%. The annual report for the fiscal year to Oct 31, 2025 puts it at 0.0% of distributions. Estimates come before the fund year closes and often change.
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