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Energy & Power Thematic basket

Power & Grid Buildout

Electricity is the binding constraint on the AI buildout and electrification. Unregulated generators with nuclear/gas fleets, grid equipment, electrical components, and the contractors who build it. The demand-growth story utilities haven't had in twenty years.

19 stocks · FW 3000 universeEqual-weighted · monthly rebalance2026-10-21 · close
1 day+1.9%basket return
20 days-2.8%basket return
20 days vs FW 3000-3.3%relative return
Year to date+4.5%basket return

Performance

Follow the theme against the wider market.

Period
-10.9%-5.9%-1.0%+4.0%+9.0%2026-07-282026-10-21
Power & Grid BuildoutFW 3000

Series before each basket's creation date are a backtest of the membership as of creation; live tracking starts at creation.

Return1 day5 days20 days60 daysMTDYTD1 year
Basket+1.9%-1.3%-2.8%-7.5%-1.7%+4.5%-7.4%
vs FW 3000+1.2%-2.0%-3.3%-11.0%-3.1%-7.7%-19.2%

Risk statistics

Period · 1y

1y · 2025-10-21 – 2026-10-21 · 252 / 252 sessions

Sharpe ratio-0.05Annualized · 0% risk-free rate
Sortino ratio-0.07Annualized · 0% downside target
Historical volatility34.3%Annualized · daily log returns

Basket total returns · Annualized using 252 trading sessions · 0% risk-free rate and downside target. As of 2026-10-21 · close.

How these statistics are calculated

Risk methodology

Sharpe: average daily simple return divided by its sample standard deviation, multiplied by √252. The risk-free rate is assumed to be 0%; this is not a cash-adjusted ratio.

Sortino: average daily simple return divided by downside deviation, multiplied by √252. Downside deviation is the square root of the average squared shortfall below 0%, counting all sessions, including zeros for gains.

Historical volatility: √(252 × average squared daily log return), matching the Vol page’s realized-volatility convention. This differs from the sample standard deviation used in Sharpe.

Each period requires complete history and at least 5 sessions. MTD and YTD follow the calendar; 1y is 252 sessions. Missing data or an undefined ratio displays — with a reason. Short periods can produce unstable ratios; intraday snapshots include a partial session. History before this basket’s creation is backtested. If a new basket has no stored daily return series yet, estimates from its rounded published chart levels are marked ≈.

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Inside the basket · 19 stocks

Current members and the reasoning behind each inclusion. Returns are for individual holdings.

Why it’s includedAdded
TLNTalen Energy CorporationNuclear/gas IPP — data-center PPAs (Talen)+2.9%+0.3%+19.7%-4.1%2026-06-11
VSTVistra Corp.Unregulated generation leverage to power prices+3.9%+2.9%+13.2%-2.8%2026-06-11
TTTrane TechnologiesData-center cooling (chillers/thermal management)+2.2%+0.0%+7.9%+22.0%2026-06-11
EMREmerson Electric Co.Automation + electrical portfolio+1.6%+1.3%+5.5%+24.3%2026-06-11
JCIJohnson ControlsDatacenter cooling and building systems+2.1%-0.9%+3.5%+27.2%2026-06-11
CMICummins Inc.Backup generation engines+1.1%+3.1%+3.4%+7.3%2026-06-11
CEGConstellation Energy CorporationLargest nuclear fleet; datacenter PPAs+4.6%-3.1%+2.6%-23.0%2026-06-11
GNRCGenerac Holdings Inc.Backup power and home energy technology+4.4%+2.6%+1.9%+49.0%2026-06-11
NEENextEra Energy, Inc.Largest US renewables developer plus FPL rate base-0.7%-0.1%+1.6%-0.4%2026-06-11
HUBBHubbell IncorporatedGrid components and utility T&D+0.3%-2.7%-0.6%+4.7%2026-06-11
NRGNRG Energy, Inc.Texas load growth + retail power+2.0%-1.0%-0.9%-36.7%2026-06-11
GEVGE Vernova Inc.Gas turbines and grid equipment backlog+4.0%-1.7%-2.7%+41.9%2026-06-11
BWXTBWX Technologies, Inc.Nuclear components and fuel+0.7%+0.5%-4.7%-21.5%2026-06-11
PWRQuanta Services, Inc.The grid construction labor force+0.9%-9.0%-5.3%+42.5%2026-06-11
AGXArgan, Inc.Gas power-plant construction (Argan)-1.1%-5.5%-7.6%+10.7%2026-06-11
ETNEaton CorporationElectrical components across the buildout+3.1%-3.6%-10.2%+24.7%2026-06-11
POWLPowell Industries, Inc.Electrical switchgear (Powell)+3.3%+0.5%-11.6%+60.5%2026-06-11
OKLOOklo Inc.Small modular reactors+0.9%-4.5%-28.6%-61.4%2026-06-11
SMRNuScale Power CorporationSMR developer (NuScale)-1.4%-5.7%-36.6%-61.2%2026-06-11

Partial price histories: CEG from 2022-01-19, GEV from 2024-03-27, OKLO from 2024-05-03, SMR from 2020-12-09, TLN from 2023-06-02.

How this basket is built

Equal-weighted; monthly rebalance, buy-and-hold between rebalances; dated membership changes reset the target weights.

Tracked since 2026-06-11. Membership decisions are documented below.

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Reading the returns

Basket returns include dividends. “vs FW 3000” compares the basket’s compounded growth with the benchmark’s. Green means positive; red means negative.

Cross-checked against GRID. Daily return correlation: 0.81 across 1710 sessions. holds large non-US grid names (Schneider, ABB) and excludes the IPP generation leg

Membership history & changes

Membership history

  • expand

    FW 3000 pass: added TLN, OKLO, SMR, BWXT, POWL, AGX — names outside the S&P 500 but inside our broad universe; they count only in the FW 3000 version of this basket. Effective-dated to creation so the broad backtest covers the full set. The S&P 500 basket is unchanged.

  • expand

    Widening pass: added the thermal/cooling leg (TT), backup power (GNRC), and regulated renewables build-out (NEE). Reference pinned to GRID — partial overlap by construction. New members are effective-dated to basket creation so the backtest and the reference correlation cover the widened set (the basket was one day old, with no meaningful live history to restate).

  • create

    Initial composition: generation, equipment, construction.

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