UNG Natural Gas ETF (UNG)

UNG Natural Gas ETF — analysis

In the natural gas group, UNG Natural Gas ETF (UNG) has gathered $7.6B. The cost line is 14 bps per year, the benchmark is Index Benchmark, and the fund has traded since 2010.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, UNG scores 70/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 31% of the fund. That places UNG in above-average composite quality territory inside the Natural Gas cohort.

UNG compounded at 16.1% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 16.0% on the benchmark. The 0.1-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on UNG is 3.60%, with distributions growing at 7.1% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

UNG weight stack: top 10 names equal 31%, sector tilt Technology 29%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.75%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as UNG: SPY, VOO, VTI. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.