The natural resources ETFs that returned most

See 12 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.

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Total return, 1Y, one bar per fund

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+39.4%

first, NANR

+14.6%

last, FTWO

funds in the list

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Points (pts) are percentage points.

The natural resources ETFs that returned most
#	Ticker	Fund	Total return, 1Y ↓	vs its benchmark 1Y	Weight in S&P 500 companies	Fee
1	NANR	State Street SPDR S&P North American Nat	+39.4%	not measured	47.3%	0.35%
2	IGE	iShares North American Natural Resources	+37.1%	not measured	49.1%	0.37%
3	HAP	VanEck Natural Resources ETF	+34.3%	+19.3 pts vs ACWI	39.0%	0.41%
4	GNR	State Street SPDR S&P Global Natural Res	+32.9%	not measured	25.9%	0.40%
5	CSNR	Cohen & Steers Natural Resources Active	+29.7%	−3.2 pts vs GNR	33.1%	0.50%
6	NRES	Xtrackers RREEF Global Natural Resources	+27.4%	−5.5 pts vs GNR	33.4%	0.45%
7	GUNR	Northern Trust Morningstar Global Upstre	+26.8%	not measured	27.1%	0.46%
8	CCNR	ALPS \| CoreCommodity Natural Resources E	+25.6%	not measured	8.9%	0.39%
9	TURF	T. Rowe Price Natural Resources ETF	+25.6%	−1.2 pts vs GUNR	30.2%	0.44%
10	MGNR	American Beacon GLG Natural Resources ET	+21.7%	−11.2 pts vs GNR	21.3%	0.75%
11	FTRI	First Trust Indxx Global Natural Resourc	+21.2%	+6.2 pts vs ACWI	14.9%	0.70%
12	FTWO	Strive Natural Resources and Security ET	+14.6%	not measured	67.8%	0.49%

As of Nov 4, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.CSV Method

Method

The 12 of 12 ETFs in the natural resources 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 14.6% to 39.4%.

The rest of the method

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.

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Every natural resources ETF and what it holds→The largest natural resources ETFs12 →

Sources and dates

Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers’ own daily filessec.gov ↗

SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filingsefts.sec.gov ↗

SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holdssec.gov ↗

Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must sayecfr.gov ↗

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