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Fund · First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index Fund · measured from SEC filings

FBT holdings

FBT reports 31 holdings and behaves like 28.2 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-06-30. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 28 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-06-30
31 Positions reported
28.2 Effective holdings
1.1× Concentration multiple
43.17% 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), 6 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-06-30

FBT's largest investment is Corcept Therapeutics Inc at 5.6% of net assets. Neogenomics Inc COM and Veracyte Inc follow; the three together are 15.82%. Ten companies are 43.17% of the fund; the other 21 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, FBT behaves like 28.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.5 times more concentrated than the median. Across 28 quarterly filings FBT has held roughly steady since 2019-09-30 (28.9 then, 28.2 now). Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 2 positions were added and 2 dropped; 18.2% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 84.9% of the portfolio, across 6 countries in the filing.

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 2019

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Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, FBT went from behaving like 28.9 equally weighted positions to 28.2 — 2% fewer, while its top ten went from 39.83% to 43.17% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-06-30 31 28.2 43.17% 5.59%
2026-03-31 31 29 39.9% 5.26%
2025-12-31 31 29 39.81% 5.14%
2025-09-30 31 29.1 40.7% 4.49%
2025-06-30 31 29 39.31% 4.64%
2025-03-31 31 27 45.03% 7.69%
2024-12-31 31 29.3 39.3% 4.37%
2024-09-30 31 28.9 40.11% 4.58%
Earlier filings (20 more, back to 2019-09-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-06-30 31 28.9 40.36% 5.2%
2024-03-31 31 29.4 38.16% 4.96%
2023-12-31 30 29.5 37.57% 4.23%
2023-09-29 30 29.4 38.97% 4.12%
2023-06-30 30 28.7 39.7% 4.81%
2023-03-31 30 29.3 38.33% 5.35%
2022-12-30 30 29.5 37.9% 4.45%
2022-09-30 30 28.8 41.39% 4.86%
2022-06-30 30 29 39.38% 4.63%
2022-03-31 30 29.3 38.55% 4.21%
2021-12-31 30 29.1 39.79% 4.54%
2021-09-30 30 29.1 39.74% 4.58%
2021-06-30 30 29.5 38.21% 4.31%
2021-03-31 30 29.3 38.61% 4.32%
2020-12-31 30 29.1 40.06% 4.79%
2020-09-30 30 29.4 38.92% 4.33%
2020-06-30 30 29.4 38.03% 4.18%
2020-03-31 30 28.8 41.12% 4.88%
2019-12-31 30 29.3 38.91% 5.36%
2019-09-30 30 28.9 39.83% 5.17%

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 2026-06-30

The 15 largest of 31 positions in FBT's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FBT.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1CORCEPT THERAPEUTICS INC5.59%5.6%
2NEOGENOMICS INC5.12%10.7%
3VERACYTE INC5.09%15.8%
4BRUKER CORP4.32%20.1%
5ALKERMES PLC4.24%24.4%
6ILLUMINA INC3.92%28.3%
7KRYSTAL BIOTECH INC3.87%32.1%
8NATERA INC3.79%35.9%
9AXSOME THERAPEUTICS INC3.71%39.6%
10NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES INC3.53%43.2%
11BIO-TECHNE CORP3.43%46.6%
12ARROWHEAD PHARMACEUTICALS INC3.37%50.0%
13BIOGEN INC3.37%53.3%
14EXELIXIS INC3.31%56.7%
15INCYTE CORP3.18%59.8%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-06-30

Share of FBT's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 84.90%
Ireland° 4.24%
Netherlands° 3.13%
Germany 2.63%
Denmark 2.62%
Switzerland 2.48%

Returns the fund reported

2019-07 – 2026-06

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FBT's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

53.9%Last twelve months filed
77%Whole series, compounded
15.5%Best month
-9.2%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.09 percentage points over 84 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FBT.json · all funds.

Who borrows FBT's shares

2026-03-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-03-31, $176,735 was out to 1 borrower, 0.01% of net assets.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $176,735 100.0%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.01% of net assets, 128.5% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter FBT has filed, with each borrower: FBT.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30

31 positions became 31: 2 added (5.7% of the fund at the later date), 2 dropped (8.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 18.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FBT compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-03-312026-06-30Largest decreases2026-03-312026-06-30
NEOGENOMICS INC2.00%5.12% UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORP4.36%2.56%
VERACYTE INC2.72%5.09% GILEAD SCIENCES INC4.09%2.45%
BRUKER CORP2.35%4.32% REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC3.44%2.25%
CORCEPT THERAPEUTICS INC3.82%5.59% AMGEN INC3.83%2.78%
ILLUMINA INC3.10%3.92% SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC3.24%2.29%
NATERA INC3.03%3.79% BEONE MEDICINES LTD3.12%2.48%

New: ARROWHEAD PHARMACEUTICALS INC (3.37%), ADMA BIOLOGICS INC (2.33%). Gone: Moderna Inc (5.26%), Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc (2.95%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-06-30

99.95% equity, 0.05% 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 FBT (28.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
UFO Procure Space ETF 65 27.9 48.34% 2026-07-31
PABU iShares Paris-Aligned Climate Optimized MSCI USA ETF 133 28 50.36% 2026-05-31
FDD First Trust STOXX European Select Dividend Index Fund 31 28.1 42.97% 2026-06-30
XME State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Metals & Mining ETF 42 28.2 44.29% 2026-06-30
KAT Scharf ETF 34 28.2 46.03% 2026-06-30
BBAX JPMorgan BetaBuilders Developed Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF 97 28.3 49.56% 2026-07-31
SCHH Schwab U.S. REIT ETF 118 28.6 49.71% 2026-05-31
AIPO Defiance AI & Power Infrastructure ETF 76 28.6 51.5% 2026-05-31
MCHI iShares MSCI China ETF 581 28.7 41.43% 2026-05-31
EMLP First Trust North American Energy Infrastructure Fund 57 28.7 47.75% 2026-07-31

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