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Fund · FT Vest Laddered Deep Buffer ETF · measured from SEC filings

BUFD holdings

BUFD reports 13 holdings and behaves like 12 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 22 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31
13 Positions reported
12 Effective holdings
1.1× Concentration multiple
83.3% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

The largest line in BUFD's filing is not a stock but FT Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF - May, a equity position at 8.36% of net assets. Ten companies are 83.3% of the fund; the other 3 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, BUFD behaves like 12 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.6 times more concentrated than the median. Across 22 quarterly filings BUFD has become less concentrated: it behaved like 4 at 2021-02-26 and 12 at 2026-05-31.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2021

22

Between 2021-02-26 and 2026-05-31, BUFD went from behaving like 4 equally weighted positions to 12 — 200% more, while its top ten went from 100% to 83.3% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 13 12 83.3% 8.36%
2026-02-28 13 12 83.34% 8.36%
2025-11-30 13 12 83.32% 8.34%
2025-08-31 13 12 83.33% 8.35%
2025-05-31 13 12 83.34% 8.35%
2025-02-28 13 12 83.28% 8.35%
2024-11-30 13 12 83.4% 8.36%
2024-08-31 13 12 83.33% 8.34%
Earlier filings (14 more, back to 2021-02-26)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 13 12 83.37% 8.36%
2024-02-29 13 12 83.36% 8.41%
2023-11-30 13 12 83.34% 8.35%
2023-08-31 13 12 83.35% 8.37%
2023-05-31 13 12 83.36% 8.37%
2023-02-28 13 12 83.38% 8.39%
2022-11-30 13 12 83.39% 8.36%
2022-08-31 13 12 83.41% 8.41%
2022-05-31 13 12 83.36% 8.36%
2022-02-28 13 12 83.35% 8.39%
2021-11-30 13 12 83.38% 8.39%
2021-08-31 13 12 83.34% 8.36%
2021-05-28 5 4 100% 25.29%
2021-02-26 4 4 100% 25.04%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-05-31

The 13 largest of 13 positions in BUFD's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: BUFD.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.36%8.4%
2First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%16.7%
3First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%25.0%
4First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%33.4%
5First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%41.7%
6First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%50.0%
7First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%58.3%
8First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.32%66.7%
9First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.32%75.0%
10First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.31%83.3%
11LISTED FUNDS TRUST8.31%91.6%
12First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.28%99.9%
13MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS0.11%100.0%

Returns the fund reported

2021-01 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of BUFD's own filings, 65 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

15.2%Last twelve months filed
48%Whole series, compounded
5.9%Best month
-4.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: BUFD.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

13 positions became 13: 0 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 0 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 0.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of BUFD compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS0.03%0.11% First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%8.28%
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.34%8.36% First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.36%8.32%
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.32%8.33% First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.35%8.31%
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.32%8.33% LISTED FUNDS TRUST8.33%8.31%
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.32%8.33% First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%8.32%
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%8.33% First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII8.33%8.33%

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

99.89% equity, 0.11% short-term investment as filed; 100.0% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of BUFD (12). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
EWP iShares MSCI Spain ETF 25 11.8 73.78% 2026-05-31
IHI iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF 49 11.9 74.66% 2026-06-30
FENY Fidelity MSCI Energy Index ETF 103 11.9 65.1% 2026-07-31
QAI NYLIM Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF 60 11.9 69.96% 2026-07-31
BUFZ FT Vest Laddered Moderate Buffer ETF 13 12 83.31% 2026-05-31
SOXL Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares 38 12.1 * 63.99% 2026-07-31
EWH iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF 31 12.1 66.65% 2026-05-31
EPHE iShares MSCI Philippines ETF 38 12.1 61.95% 2026-05-31
VDE Vanguard Energy Index Fund 106 12.3 63.95% 2026-05-31
LIT Global X Lithium and Battery Tech ETF 41 12.3 66.07% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine BUFD

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