Fund · First Trust Smith Opportunistic Fixed Income ETF · measured from SEC filings
FIXD holdings
FIXD reports 489 holdings and behaves like 141.5 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 27 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-05-31Computed 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: 0.33% at a quoted market price (level 1), 11 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31FIXD's largest investment is T 4.625 11/15/45 at 3.37% of net assets. T 4.625 11/15/55 and T 4.875 08/15/45 follow; the three together are 8.98%. Ten companies are 19.97% of the fund; the other 479 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, FIXD behaves like 141.5 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 1.7 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FIXD has become less concentrated: it behaved like 55.1 at 2019-11-29 and 141.5 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 108 positions were added and 65 dropped; 26.3% of the weight moved.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-11-29 and 2026-05-31, FIXD went from behaving like 55.1 equally weighted positions to 141.5 — 157% more, while its top ten went from 37.79% to 19.97% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 489 | 141.5 | 19.97% | 3.41% |
| 2026-02-28 | 446 | 104.5 | 24.97% | 4.42% |
| 2025-11-30 | 397 | 75.5 | 30.52% | 4.78% |
| 2025-08-31 | 384 | 75.1 | 30.51% | 5.14% |
| 2025-05-31 | 373 | 48.9 | 39.86% | 6.33% |
| 2025-02-28 | 828 | 64.4 | 31.25% | 6.97% |
| 2024-11-30 | 895 | 32.1 | 45.62% | 12.13% |
| 2024-08-31 | 887 | 32.7 | 44.06% | 11.71% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-29)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 885 | 42.3 | 38.53% | 10.42% |
| 2024-02-29 | 944 | 52.4 | 36.88% | 6.88% |
| 2023-11-30 | 926 | 65.7 | 32.9% | 5.99% |
| 2023-08-31 | 952 | 54.3 | 34.83% | 8.22% |
| 2023-05-31 | 930 | 61.9 | 33.29% | 7.23% |
| 2023-02-28 | 846 | 76.2 | 30.9% | 5.33% |
| 2022-11-30 | 860 | 104.7 | 26.15% | 3.58% |
| 2022-08-31 | 876 | 94.4 | 27.03% | 3.8% |
| 2022-05-31 | 901 | 61.1 | 34.38% | 6.51% |
| 2022-02-28 | 915 | 63.5 | 34.93% | 5.13% |
| 2021-11-30 | 872 | 42.7 | 44.19% | 6.84% |
| 2021-08-31 | 882 | 39.8 | 44.77% | 6.93% |
| 2021-05-28 | 900 | 35.2 | 47.29% | 8.99% |
| 2021-02-26 | 939 | 30.8 | 48.09% | 10.43% |
| 2020-11-30 | 935 | 43.1 | 41.38% | 8.04% |
| 2020-08-31 | 913 | 49.9 | 36.76% | 7.49% |
| 2020-05-29 | 885 | 49.3 | 40.22% | 6.61% |
| 2020-02-28 | 737 | 67.4 | 31.46% | 6.87% |
| 2019-11-29 | 688 | 55.1 | 37.79% | 6.88% |
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 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 489 positions in FIXD's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FIXD.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 3.41% | 3.4% |
| 2 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 3.24% | 6.6% |
| 3 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 2.42% | 9.1% |
| 4 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 2.18% | 11.3% |
| 5 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 2.13% | 13.4% |
| 6 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 1.99% | 15.4% |
| 7 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 1.95% | 17.3% |
| 8 | BOEING COMPANY (THE) | 1.08% | 18.4% |
| 9 | GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC | 0.82% | 19.2% |
| 10 | RTX CORP | 0.74% | 20.0% |
| 11 | FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC | 0.69% | 20.7% |
| 12 | Fnma Pass-Thru I | 0.68% | 21.3% |
| 13 | NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP | 0.66% | 22.0% |
| 14 | JANE STREET GROUP LLC / JSG FINANCE INC | 0.66% | 22.7% |
| 15 | GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION | 0.64% | 23.3% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-05-31Share of FIXD'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 | 94.44% |
| Canada | 1.42% |
| Switzerland | 0.87% |
| Bermuda° | 0.68% |
| Cayman Islands° | 0.57% |
| Denmark | 0.55% |
| United Kingdom | 0.40% |
| Saudi Arabia | 0.36% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FIXD's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.09 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FIXD.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31446 positions became 489: 108 added (22.7% of the fund at the later date), 65 dropped (18.9% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 26.3%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FIXD compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS MILEAGE PLAN IP LTD | 0.15% | 0.39% | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 1.73% | 0.08% |
| ALLISON TRANSMISSION INC | 0.05% | 0.26% | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 4.42% | 3.24% |
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.15% | 0.35% | DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS | 0.89% | 0.02% |
| PARAMOUNT GLOBAL | 0.15% | 0.32% | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 2.59% | 2.13% |
| AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS LLC | 0.25% | 0.41% | FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP | 0.54% | 0.19% |
| PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC (THE) | 0.25% | 0.36% | FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP | 0.96% | 0.62% |
New: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (2.18%), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (1.95%), Government National Mortgage Association (0.63%), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (0.51%), AMAZON.COM INC (0.51%), BANK OF AMERICA CORP (0.47%). Gone: United States Treasury Notes (3.04%), United States Treasury Notes (2.14%), United States Treasury Notes (1.85%), United States Treasury Notes (1.07%), United States Treasury Notes (0.81%), Federal National Mortgage Association (0.60%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| debt DBT | 78.23% |
| mortgage-backed ABS-MBS | 18.88% |
| ABS-O ABS-O | 1.40% |
| loan LON | 1.05% |
| preferred equity EP | 0.43% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.02% |
0.3% of FIXD is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.3% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. 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, debt funds
10Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FIXD (141.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WIP State Street(R) SPDR(R) FTSE International Government Inflation-Protected Bond ETF | 179 | 126 | 15.12% | 2026-06-30 |
| CORB AB Core Bond ETF | 705 | 131.5 | 21.09% | 2026-05-31 |
| BSJS Invesco BulletShares 2028 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | 193 | 137.7 | 15.77% | 2026-05-31 |
| JMST JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF | 1,892 | 138.5 | 13.59% | 2026-05-31 |
| FPE First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF | 259 | 140.9 | 15.09% | 2026-07-31 |
| MEAR iShares Short Maturity Municipal Bond Active ETF | 347 | 142.8 | 16.92% | 2026-07-31 |
| FLCB Franklin U.S. Core Bond ETF | 599 | 150.3 | 19.03% | 2026-06-30 |
| MYCH State Street(R) My2028 Corporate Bond ETF | 346 | 151.4 | 14.91% | 2026-05-31 |
| PTRB PGIM Total Return Bond ETF | 1,222 | 155.6 * | 19.68% | 2026-05-29 |
| MINT PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund | 1,016 | 158.4 | 13.16% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine FIXD
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