# How Venture Global (VG) compares with the whole market and its popular alternatives

> Source: BetterThanSPY research, https://betterthanspy.com/research/vg
> Data as of November 2, 2026. Total returns include reinvested dividends. Past performance does not predict future results; nothing here is investment advice.

Built by QuantCommons' quantitative engine, this page is about relative opportunity, not data on VG alone. It places VG (Venture Global, Inc.) against 19 popular alternatives, its neighboring categories and the entire market of over 10,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs, and surfaces what has done better on consistent outperformance, return for the risk taken and diversification. The result is a clearer view of where VG stands in the market, and of the alternatives worth a closer look.

Period covered: VG's full trading record, from January 2025 through October 2026. All returns include reinvested dividends. Data as of November 2, 2026.

## Key findings

- **Right now:** VG is 45.7% below its high, bear-market territory, while the S&P 500 sits 3.5% below a record. Over the past 6 months, VG fell 6.2% while the S&P 500 rose 5.3%.
- **Stock or market?:** VG fell 1.4% over the past 3 months, in line with the oil & gas ETF AMLP (Alerian MLP ETF), which fell 2.5%. The S&P 500 fell 0.5%. Its oil & gas peers did not move as one over the past 3 months: KMI (Kinder Morgan) rose 5.1%, while ENB (Enbridge) fell 7.8%.
- **Past 1 to 3 years:** VG has run far ahead of the market, rising 55.2% over the past year against 11.3% for the S&P 500 and 8.3% for the Nasdaq 100.

## How much would $10,000 in VG have grown?

This chart tracks a hypothetical $10,000 investment in VG over the past 1 years, with dividends reinvested, alongside the same amount in the S&P 500, investments that ended ahead of VG over the same span and VG's popular alternatives, among those that traded for the entire period.

- $10,000 invested in VG at the end of October 2025 would have grown to $17,400 by October 2026, more than the $11,200 it would have become in SPY, an S&P 500 fund.
- Five of the eight other investments on the chart ended ahead of VG, and MU finished highest, at $39,582.

## VG at a glance

This section summarizes the key facts about the stock, its returns over periods from one to ten years and the risk it has carried, with dividends reinvested throughout.

- VG is still 45.7% below its all-time high.
- VG's deepest decline since it began trading in 2025 was 75.2%, from January to December 2025. It has not yet climbed back to that peak.

- Type: Stock, Energy (Oil & Gas Midstream)
- Trading since: January 24, 2025
- Market value: $32B
- Volatility (1 year): 75.7%; Sharpe ratio: 0.96
- Worst decline ever: −75.2%, from January 24, 2025 to December 16, 2025; not yet back at its high

| Period | VG total return |
| --- | --- |
| 1 month | −2.0% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 6 months | −6.2% |
| year to date | +83.9% |
| 1 year | +55.2% |

## VG against the whole market

Where VG ranks among every stock and fund, and what across the market has done better.

### How does VG rank among all stocks?

This section ranks VG on return, volatility, risk-adjusted return and worst decline against every stock worth at least $300 million with enough history.

- VG is among the more volatile stocks: its price swings rank in the bottom 11% of the 3,272 stocks worth at least $300 million, where the top is the calmest.
- VG's 1-year return ranks in the top 14% of the 3,272 stocks worth at least $300 million with 1 year of history.

| Measure | VG | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1-year return | +55.2% | 468 of 3,272 (top 15%) |
| Volatility, 1 year | 75.7% | 2,908 of 3,272 (top 89%) |
| Sharpe ratio, 1 year | 0.96 | 1,038 of 3,272 (top 32%) |

## VG against its popular alternatives

The investments people most often weigh against VG, compared period by period and year by year.

### How do VG's risk and return compare with its alternatives?

This map plots each investment's annual return over the past 1 year against its volatility, the size of its typical price swings.

- Only TRGP was both more rewarding and calmer than VG over the past 1 year, earning a higher annual return with lower volatility.
- Over the past 1 year, VG returned 55.2% a year, more than the S&P 500's 11.2%, with higher volatility (75.7% against 12.8%).

### Has VG consistently beaten its popular alternatives?

This section compares VG with the investments people most often weigh against it, checking each one over five periods from one month to one year.

- Eight of the 19 popular alternatives, led by TRGP, LNG and RRC, outperformed VG in at least 3 of 5 timeframes.
- TRP, EPD and LNG earned more for the risk they took than VG (a higher Sharpe ratio) and fell less in their worst decline of the past 10 years.

| Investment | 1Y return | Periods ahead of VG | Verdict | Sharpe |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VG: Venture Global, Inc. (this page) | +55.2% |  |  | 0.96 |
| [TRGP](https://betterthanspy.com/research/trgp): Targa Resources Corp. | +92.4% | 4/5 short-term | consistent | 2.40 |
| [LNG](https://betterthanspy.com/research/lng): Cheniere Energy, Inc. | +50.2% | 3/5 short-term | consistent | 1.50 |
| RRC: Range Resources Corporation | +49.0% | 3/5 short-term | consistent | 1.28 |
| [OKE](https://betterthanspy.com/research/oke): ONEOK, Inc. | +48.6% | 3/5 short-term | consistent | 1.60 |
| [KMI](https://betterthanspy.com/research/kmi): Kinder Morgan, Inc. | +30.2% | 3/5 short-term | consistent | 1.36 |
| [EPD](https://betterthanspy.com/research/epd): Enterprise Products Partners L.P. | +29.8% | 3/5 short-term | consistent | 1.50 |
| [WMB](https://betterthanspy.com/research/wmb): The Williams Companies, Inc. | +24.3% | 3/5 short-term | consistent | 0.99 |
| AR: Antero Resources Corporation | +22.6% | 3/5 short-term | consistent | 0.74 |
| [TRP](https://betterthanspy.com/research/trp): TC Energy Corporation | +32.4% | 2/5 short-term |  | 1.55 |
| CQP: Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. | +31.4% | 2/5 short-term |  | 1.07 |
| WES: Western Midstream Partners, LP | +28.4% | 2/5 short-term |  | 1.34 |
| NEXT: Nextdecade Corp | +13.5% | 2/5 short-term |  | 0.51 |
| EQT: EQT Corporation | −0.7% | 2/5 short-term |  | 0.12 |
| [ENB](https://betterthanspy.com/research/enb): Enbridge Inc. | +12.9% | 1/5 short-term |  | 0.76 |
| DTM: DT Midstream, Inc. | +10.6% | 1/5 short-term |  | 0.56 |
| [SRE](https://betterthanspy.com/research/sre): Sempra | −4.3% | 1/5 short-term |  | -0.12 |
| FLEX: Flex Ltd. | +31.8% | 0/5 short-term |  | 0.72 |
| GLNG: Golar LNG Limited | +10.8% | 0/5 short-term |  | 0.52 |
| [BKR](https://betterthanspy.com/research/bkr): Baker Hughes Company | +10.8% | 0/5 short-term |  | 0.47 |

## Risk and diversification

How VG has fallen, how it held up in crashes beside the S&P 500 and its popular alternatives, and what moves independently of it.

### What were VG's worst declines?

A drawdown is the decline from a peak to the lowest point before a new high.

- Not every decline was the market's doing: VG fell 75.2% from January to December 2025, while the S&P 500 rose 12.6%.

| Decline | Peak | Low | Back at the high | SPY over the same dates | Market event |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| −75.2% | January 24, 2025 | December 16, 2025 | not yet | +12.6% |  |

## Common questions

### What was VG's worst drawdown?

VG's deepest decline since it began trading in 2025 was 75.2%, from January to December 2025. It has not yet climbed back to that peak. Because VG launched in January 2025, that record does not include the dot-com bust, the 2008 financial crisis or eight other sell-offs.

### What are the best alternatives to VG?

Of the 19 popular alternatives we compared, eight outperformed VG in at least 3 of 5 timeframes, with dividends reinvested: TRGP, LNG and RRC.

## More research

- [Is TRGP Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/trgp)
- [Is LNG Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/lng)
- [Is OKE Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/oke)
- [Is KMI Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/kmi)
- [Is EPD Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/epd)
- [Is WMB Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/wmb)
- [Is TRP Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/trp)
- [Is ENB Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/enb)
- [Is SRE Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/sre)
- [Is BKR Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/bkr)
- [Is SCHD Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/schd)
- [Is AAPL Better Than the S&P 500 and the Rest of the Market?](https://betterthanspy.com/research/aapl)

## Explore further

- Full page with charts: https://betterthanspy.com/research/vg
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