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HTEC leads at +43.7% over one year. LFSC is second at +43.6% over one year.","url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-innovation","dateModified":"2026-11-04","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":3671,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / Rankings / The innovation ETFs that returned most \n \n As of Nov 4, 2026 . Rebuilt every trading night.\n The innovation ETFs that returned most\n See 15 funds ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, one year. Updated Nov 4, 2026. Funds on one theme can hold different companies, so the gap from top to bottom reflects what they own, not the theme.\n The innovation ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, as of Nov 4, 2026. Source: ETFIQ. # Ticker Fund Total return, 1Y vs its benchmark 1Y Weight in S&P 500 companies Fee \n 1 HTEC ROBO Global Healthcare Technology and In +43.7% not measured 32.7% 0.68% \n 2 LFSC F/m Emerald Life Sciences Innovation ETF +43.6% +28.8 pts vs IWV 0.0% 0.54% \n 3 INVN Alger Russell Innovation ETF +33.1% not measured 32.5% 0.55% \n 4 LENS Sarmaya Thematic ETF +28.3% +14.0 pts vs BKLC 16.0% 0.79% \n 5 FMED Fidelity Disruptive Medicine ETF +27.4% not measured 21.8% 0.50% \n 6 CARZ First Trust S-Network Future Vehicles & +26.4% +11.4 pts vs ACWI 50.7% 0.70% \n 7 QQQJ Invesco NASDAQ Next Gen 100 ETF +25.2% +10.4 pts vs IWV 46.7% 0.15% \n 8 FITE State Street SPDR S&P Kensho Future Secu +24.3% +9.5 pts vs VOO 26.9% 0.45% \n 9 GTEK Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity +24.1% +9.1 pts vs ACWI 33.0% 0.75% \n 10 BULD Pacer BlueStar Engineering the Future ET +23.8% not measured 36.4% 0.49% \n 11 XT iShares Future Exponential Technologies +23.4% +8.4 pts vs ACWI 65.0% 0.46% \n 12 FDTX Fidelity Disruptive Technology ETF +18.2% not measured 70.6% 0.50% \n 13 GDOC Goldman Sachs Future Health Care Equity +15.5% not measured 62.5% 0.75% \n 14 ABOT Abacus FCF Innovation Leaders ETF +13.5% not measured 64.4% 0.39% \n 15 DTRE First Trust Alerian Disruptive Technolog +11.2% not measured 43.0% 0.60% \n \n Method\n The 27 of 30 ETFs in the broad innovation and megatrends theme with a full year of trading, highest first, each over the same year to Nov 4, 2026 with distributions reinvested. Across the funds listed here the one year total return runs from 11.2% to 43.7%. A year says what happened, not what happens next. The list sorts one published number, with no scoring or weighting. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, closed funds included.\n Where to next\n Every innovation ETF and what it holds The largest innovation ETFs Sources\n Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers\u2019 own daily files SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say Links are sources, not endorsements.\n A ranking is not a recommendation or an opinion. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, The innovation ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-innovation Free to use with attribution for data ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, The innovation ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-innovation APA ETFIQ. (Nov 4, 2026). The innovation ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-innovation Markdown [The innovation ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested (ETFIQ, Nov 4, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-innovation)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Data ETFIQ computes is free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). Issuer data stays under its owner's terms.","citation":"ETFIQ, The innovation ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-innovation"}