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BUFQ holdings

BUFQ reports 5 holdings and behaves like 4 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 16 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31
5 Positions reported
4 Effective holdings
1.2× Concentration multiple
100% 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 BUFQ's filing is not a stock but FT Vest Nasdaq-100 Buffer ETF - December, a equity position at 25.44% of net assets. Ten companies are 100% of the fund; the other -5 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, BUFQ behaves like 4 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 11.1 times more concentrated than the median. Across 16 quarterly filings BUFQ has held roughly steady since 2022-08-31 (4 then, 4 now).

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 2022

16

Between 2022-08-31 and 2026-05-31, BUFQ went from behaving like 4 equally weighted positions to 4 — 0% more, while its top ten went from 100% to 100% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 5 4 100% 25.44%
2026-02-28 5 4 100% 25.33%
2025-11-30 5 4 100% 25.24%
2025-08-31 5 4 100% 25.08%
2025-05-31 5 4 100% 25.09%
2025-02-28 5 4 100% 25.25%
2024-11-30 5 4 100% 25.1%
2024-08-31 5 4 100% 25.14%
Earlier filings (8 more, back to 2022-08-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 5 4 100% 25.15%
2024-02-29 5 4 100% 25.19%
2023-11-30 5 4 100% 25.2%
2023-08-31 5 4 100% 25.25%
2023-05-31 5 4 100% 25.35%
2023-02-28 4 4 100% 25.17%
2022-11-30 5 4 100% 25.2%
2022-08-31 5 4 100% 25.25%

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 5 largest of 5 positions in BUFQ's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: BUFQ.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII25.44%25.4%
2First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII25.35%50.8%
3First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII24.97%75.8%
4First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII24.18%99.9%
5MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS0.07%100.0%

Returns the fund reported

2022-06 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of BUFQ's own filings, 48 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

22.8%Last twelve months filed
92%Whole series, compounded
9.3%Best month
-7.8%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: BUFQ.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

5 positions became 5: 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: 1.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of BUFQ compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII24.77%25.44% First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII25.06%24.18%
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII24.82%25.35% First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII25.33%24.97%
MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS0.02%0.07%

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

99.93% equity, 0.07% 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 BUFQ (4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
TMF Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares 5 2 * 100% 2026-07-31
BNDW Vanguard Total World Bond ETF 3 2 100% 2026-05-31
TNA Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3X Shares 11 2.2 * 99.16% 2026-07-31
BLUX Bluemonte Dynamic Total Market ETF 4 2.8 100% 2026-07-31
AVNM Avantis All International Markets Equity ETF 8 4 100% 2026-05-31
AVGE Avantis All Equity Markets ETF 15 4.3 95.34% 2026-05-31
SECT Main Sector Rotation ETF 9 4.5 100% 2026-07-31
FV First Trust Dorsey Wright Focus 5 ETF 6 5 100% 2026-06-30
BUYW Main Buywrite ETF 9 5.1 100% 2026-07-31
SMMD iShares Russell 2500 ETF 518 5.9 44.16% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine BUFQ

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