Ranking of Top U.S. ETF Gainers (60 Months)

The Top 60-Month Gainers U.S. ETFs ranking highlights the exchange-traded funds that have delivered the strongest price performance over the past five years, providing a starting point for investors seeking to analyze longer-term market trends.

For investors looking to understand ETF performance over longer horizons, analyzing five years of historical data can provide useful insights into consistency, volatility, and how different investment strategies have performed across changing market conditions.

ETFs also provide exposure to a basket of securities through a single investment, helping investors diversify their portfolios without selecting each underlying asset individually.

Some of their main characteristics include:

• Liquidity: Because ETFs trade like stocks, shares can be bought and sold throughout the trading day.
• Transparency: Most ETFs regularly disclose their portfolio holdings, while the benchmarks tracked by index funds are generally publicly available.
• Competitive costs: Many passive ETFs have lower expense ratios than actively managed funds because their primary objective is to track an underlying index rather than outperform it.

How the ranking works

The Top 60-Month Gainers U.S. ETFs ranking is based on the cumulative price performance of eligible ETFs over the previous 60 months (5 years).

The primary ranking criterion is each ETF's percentage price change over the five-year period. Complementary metrics such as Dividend Yield (DY), Market Cap, 12-month return, and 24-month return are also displayed to provide additional context for investors.

Only ETFs with sufficient historical data to calculate a complete 60-month return are eligible for the ranking.

Eligible ETFs are ranked from highest to lowest based on their cumulative percentage return over the period, allowing investors to identify funds that have experienced the strongest long-term price appreciation.

The additional performance periods can also help investors understand whether an ETF's five-year gains have continued more recently or whether the fund may currently be experiencing a different phase of its market cycle.

The ranking is updated regularly to reflect the latest available market data. It is intended for informational purposes only and should not be considered investment advice.

Characteristics of top-performing ETFs over 60 months

• Exposure to long-term market trends: Strong performers may benefit from structural themes such as technological innovation, changes in commodity markets, digital assets, or other long-term economic trends.
• Sustained price appreciation: Leading ETFs have generated significant cumulative gains over a five-year horizon, although performance may have varied considerably within the period.
• Potential for significant volatility: Strong long-term returns do not necessarily imply consistent performance. Some ETFs may experience substantial drawdowns and periods of heightened volatility along the way.
• Concentrated or specialized exposure: Sector-specific, thematic, commodity, or alternative-asset ETFs may experience stronger gains when their underlying markets outperform, while also carrying greater concentration risk.
• Sensitivity to changing market cycles: Interest rates, inflation, economic growth, regulation, geopolitical developments, and investor sentiment can materially affect performance over a five-year period.