Fund · First Trust Water ETF · measured from SEC filings
FIW holdings
FIW reports 37 holdings and behaves like 31.7 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 2026-06-30Read this figure with the following in mind
3.7% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 30.4
The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.
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: 96.45% at a quoted market price (level 1), 4 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-06-30FIW's largest investment is Waters Corp at 4.87% of net assets. Agilent Technologies Inc and Masco Corp follow; the three together are 13.52%. Ten companies are 40.58% of the fund; the other 27 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, FIW behaves like 31.7 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 28 quarterly filings FIW has held roughly steady since 2019-09-30 (32 then, 31.7 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 2019
28Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, FIW went from behaving like 32 equally weighted positions to 31.7 — 1% fewer, while its top ten went from 39.06% to 40.58% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 37 | 31.7 | 40.58% | 4.87% |
| 2026-03-31 | 37 | 31.7 | 40.51% | 4.45% |
| 2025-12-31 | 37 | 31 | 41.98% | 5.27% |
| 2025-09-30 | 37 | 31.7 | 40.36% | 4.22% |
| 2025-06-30 | 37 | 31.8 | 39.85% | 4.73% |
| 2025-03-31 | 37 | 31.8 | 39.8% | 4.49% |
| 2024-12-31 | 37 | 31.5 | 39.72% | 4.5% |
| 2024-09-30 | 37 | 31.6 | 39.88% | 4.13% |
Earlier filings (20 more, back to 2019-09-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-30 | 37 | 32.2 | 38.71% | 4.32% |
| 2024-03-31 | 37 | 31.8 | 39.18% | 4.05% |
| 2023-12-31 | 38 | 31.1 | 40.67% | 4.49% |
| 2023-09-29 | 37 | 31.5 | 40.08% | 4.39% |
| 2023-06-30 | 37 | 31.5 | 39.95% | 4.39% |
| 2023-03-31 | 37 | 31.4 | 40.42% | 4.19% |
| 2022-12-30 | 37 | 30.8 | 42.16% | 4.78% |
| 2022-09-30 | 37 | 31.6 | 40.16% | 4.33% |
| 2022-06-30 | 37 | 31.8 | 40.66% | 4.41% |
| 2022-03-31 | 37 | 31.9 | 39.64% | 4.19% |
| 2021-12-31 | 37 | 31.8 | 39.4% | 4.1% |
| 2021-09-30 | 37 | 32 | 39.23% | 3.99% |
| 2021-06-30 | 37 | 31.2 | 42.15% | 4.5% |
| 2021-03-31 | 37 | 31.6 | 40.62% | 4.3% |
| 2020-12-31 | 37 | 31.8 | 38.56% | 4.26% |
| 2020-09-30 | 37 | 31.3 | 40.22% | 4.19% |
| 2020-06-30 | 37 | 30.3 | 43.55% | 5.19% |
| 2020-03-31 | 35 | 30.4 | 41.65% | 4.77% |
| 2019-12-31 | 37 | 32.4 | 38.68% | 4.38% |
| 2019-09-30 | 37 | 32 | 39.06% | 4.2% |
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.
As filed, collateral included
3.68% collateralFIW's filing lists 38 positions including 3.68% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 30.4 effective holdings with a top ten of 40.57%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 31.7 with a top ten of 40.58%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-06-30The 15 largest of 37 positions in FIW's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FIW.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WATERS CORP | 4.87% | 4.9% |
| 2 | AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC | 4.54% | 9.4% |
| 3 | MASCO CORP | 4.12% | 13.5% |
| 4 | ROPER TECHNOLOGIES INC | 4.01% | 17.5% |
| 5 | AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY INC | 4.01% | 21.5% |
| 6 | IDEX CORP | 3.93% | 25.5% |
| 7 | XYLEM INC | 3.78% | 29.3% |
| 8 | MUELLER INDUSTRIES INC | 3.78% | 33.0% |
| 9 | VERALTO CORP | 3.77% | 36.8% |
| 10 | FERGUSON ENTERPRISES INC | 3.77% | 40.6% |
| 11 | ECOLAB INC | 3.74% | 44.3% |
| 12 | WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC | 3.70% | 48.0% |
| 13 | IDEXX LABORATORIES INC | 3.32% | 51.3% |
| 14 | ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS INC | 3.32% | 54.7% |
| 15 | JACOBS SOLUTIONS INC | 3.31% | 58.0% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-06-30Share of FIW's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 91.50% |
| Canada | 4.05% |
| Ireland° | 3.20% |
| Brazil | 1.25% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-07 – 2026-06Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FIW's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.06 percentage points over 84 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FIW.json · all funds.
Who borrows FIW's shares
2026-06-30The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-06-30, $66m was out to 4 borrowers, 3.57% of net assets. The largest, BofA Securities, Inc., held 39.2% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| BofA Securities, Inc. | $26m | 39.2% |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $24m | 35.6% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $16m | 24.1% |
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $699,159 | 1.1% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 3.68% of net assets, 103% 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 FIW has filed, with each borrower: FIW.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-03-31 → 2026-06-3037 positions became 37: 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: 6.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FIW compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-03-31 | 2026-06-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-03-31 | 2026-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MASCO CORP | 3.25% | 4.12% | STANTEC INC | 3.07% | 2.31% |
| WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES INC | 2.91% | 3.70% | PENTAIR PLC | 3.87% | 3.20% |
| WATERS CORP | 4.10% | 4.87% | AECOM | 2.86% | 2.21% |
| VALMONT INDUSTRIES INC | 1.91% | 2.60% | IDEXX LABORATORIES INC | 3.77% | 3.32% |
| GORMAN RUPP COMPANY (THE) | 1.33% | 1.85% | ROPER TECHNOLOGIES INC | 4.45% | 4.01% |
| FORTUNE BRANDS INNOVATIONS INC | 1.58% | 2.09% | AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY INC | 4.40% | 4.01% |
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-06-30| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 96.40% |
| repurchase agreement RA | 3.55% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.05% |
96.5% of FIW is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FIW (31.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EQTY Kovitz Core Equity ETF | 40 | 31.5 | 42.26% | 2026-07-31 |
| FREL Fidelity MSCI Real Estate Index ETF | 124 | 31.6 | 47.53% | 2026-07-31 |
| FCG First Trust Natural Gas ETF | 43 | 31.6 | 42.18% | 2026-06-30 |
| UYG ProShares Ultra Financials | 92 | 31.7 * | 47.79% | 2026-05-31 |
| DWLD Davis Select Worldwide ETF | 41 | 31.7 | 43.03% | 2026-07-31 |
| HCMT Direxion HCM Tactical Enhanced US ETF | 508 | 31.8 * | 45.25% | 2026-07-31 |
| QQQM Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF | 103 | 32 | 47.43% | 2026-05-31 |
| SCHD Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF | 102 | 32 | 43.64% | 2026-05-31 |
| BBCA JPMorgan BetaBuilders Canada ETF | 79 | 32 | 44.4% | 2026-07-31 |
| EUFN iShares MSCI Europe Financials ETF | 93 | 32 | 45.13% | 2026-07-31 |
Essays that examine FIW
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