First Trust Nasdaq Food & Beverage ETF·Financial Services
The First Trust Nasdaq Food & Beverage ETF is an exchange-traded fund. The investment objective of the Fund is to seek investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield, before the Fund's fees and expenses, of an index called the Nasdaq US Smart Food & Beverage Index. The Fund seeks to replicate the holdings and weightings of the Nasdaq US Smart Food & Beverage Index as to generate performance results 95% correlated to that of the Nasdaq US Smart Food & Beverage Index.
Financial Services
Asset Management
2016-10-10
0.58
Market Peers

FSTA offers a much lower expense ratio and greater diversification than FTXG. FSTA has posted stronger recent returns and a shallower five-year drawdown.

XLP has nearly doubled FTXG's price return within the last 12 months. FTXG has lagged compared to XLP in both recent returns and five-year growth.

FTXG charges a nearly identical fee to PBJ but offers a higher dividend yield. PBJ has a significantly higher five-year return.

RSPS charges a lower expense ratio and has gathered more assets under management than FTXG. FTXG offers a slightly higher dividend yield but has lagged RSPS on one-year and five-year returns.

VDC offers an expense ratio of 0.09% and an asset under management (AUM) of $8.5 billion, while FTXG has an expense ratio of 0.60%, an AUM of $19.8 million, and a higher dividend yield of 2.6% versus VDC's 2.0%. FTXG has a 5-year growth of $925 per $1,000 invested, lagging VDC's $1,385, and has a maximum drawdown of -21.71% versus VDC's -16.55%.

FSTA charges a much lower expense ratio, while FTXG boasts a higher dividend yield. FSTA has outperformed FTXG in both one- and five-year total returns and also has a shallower maximum drawdown.