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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 2026-05-31
489 Positions reported
141.5 Effective holdings
3.5× Concentration multiple
19.97% 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: 0.33% at a quoted market price (level 1), 11 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

FIXD'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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 2026-05-31

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT3.41%3.4%
2UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT3.24%6.6%
3UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT2.42%9.1%
4UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT2.18%11.3%
5UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT2.13%13.4%
6UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.99%15.4%
7UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.95%17.3%
8BOEING COMPANY (THE)1.08%18.4%
9GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC0.82%19.2%
10RTX CORP0.74%20.0%
11FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC0.69%20.7%
12Fnma Pass-Thru I0.68%21.3%
13NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP0.66%22.0%
14JANE STREET GROUP LLC / JSG FINANCE INC0.66%22.7%
15GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION0.64%23.3%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

Share of FIXD'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 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 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FIXD's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

5.4%Last twelve months filed
5%Whole series, compounded
4.9%Best month
-5.1%Worst month

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 → 2026-05-31

446 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 increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
AS MILEAGE PLAN IP LTD0.15%0.39% UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.73%0.08%
ALLISON TRANSMISSION INC0.05%0.26% UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT4.42%3.24%
WELLS FARGO & COMPANY0.15%0.35% DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS0.89%0.02%
PARAMOUNT GLOBAL0.15%0.32% UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT2.59%2.13%
AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS LLC0.25%0.41% FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP0.54%0.19%
PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC (THE)0.25%0.36% FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP0.96%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 DBT78.23%
mortgage-backed ABS-MBS18.88%
ABS-O ABS-O1.40%
loan LON1.05%
preferred equity EP0.43%
short-term investment STIV0.02%

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

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Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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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