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Fund · First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF · measured from SEC filings

FPE holdings

FPE reports 259 holdings and behaves like 140.9 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31
259 Positions reported
140.9 Effective holdings
1.8× Concentration multiple
15.09% 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: 26.8% at a quoted market price (level 1), 14 issuer countries, 0.72% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

FPE's largest investment is BAC V6.625 Perp at 2.52% of net assets. Wells Fargo & Company 7.5% Non-cumulative Perpetual Convertible Class A Preferred Stock, Series L and Bacr V8 Perp follow; the three together are 6.25%. Ten companies are 15.09% of the fund; the other 249 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, FPE behaves like 140.9 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 1.7 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FPE has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (124.5 then, 138.6 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 18 positions were added and 12 dropped; 6.8% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 59.35% of the portfolio, across 14 countries in the filing.

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 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, FPE went from behaving like 124.5 equally weighted positions to 138.6 — 11% more, while its top ten went from 17% to 15.08% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 259 138.6 15.08% 2.56%
2026-01-31 253 134.9 15.25% 2.55%
2025-10-31 253 131.2 15.64% 2.61%
2025-07-31 254 128.4 15.97% 2.77%
2025-04-30 243 124.9 16.23% 2.54%
2025-01-31 235 134.7 14.93% 2.29%
2024-10-31 225 127.3 15.76% 2.44%
2024-07-31 244 121.9 17.34% 2.54%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 240 121.1 17.83% 2.45%
2024-01-31 232 120 17.85% 2.38%
2023-10-31 263 125.3 17.23% 2.33%
2023-07-31 281 129.1 17.12% 2.41%
2023-04-30 285 133.3 16.5% 2.46%
2023-01-31 302 153.4 14.43% 2.24%
2022-10-31 311 161 13.96% 2.15%
2022-07-31 310 165.3 13.66% 2.28%
2022-04-30 325 173.6 13.33% 2.12%
2022-01-31 315 173 13.34% 2.05%
2021-10-31 314 171.4 13.49% 2.05%
2021-07-31 303 164.4 13.8% 2.18%
2021-04-30 287 153.2 14.78% 2.17%
2021-01-31 272 145.1 15.87% 2.34%
2020-10-31 264 136.4 16.26% 2.99%
2020-07-31 281 132.4 16.68% 3.1%
2020-04-30 277 129.8 16.48% 3.2%
2020-01-31 267 138.8 15.63% 2.68%
2019-10-31 240 124.5 17% 3.03%

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 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 259 positions in FPE's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FPE.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1BANK OF AMERICA CORP2.56%2.6%
2WELLS FARGO & COMPANY2.09%4.7%
3BARCLAYS PLC1.67%6.3%
4NEXTERA ENERGY CAPITAL HOLDINGS INC1.41%7.7%
5JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY1.37%9.1%
6XCEL ENERGY INC1.27%10.4%
7CREDIT AGRICOLE SA1.24%11.6%
8CITIGROUP INC1.22%12.8%
9BNP PARIBAS SA1.15%14.0%
10T-MOBILE USA INC1.10%15.1%
11COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL INC1.10%16.2%
12CHARLES SCHWAB CORP (THE)1.09%17.3%
13HARTFORD INSURANCE GROUP INC (THE)1.07%18.3%
14GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (THE)1.05%19.4%
15BANK OF MONTREAL1.02%20.4%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of FPE'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 58.65%
Canada 11.53%
France 7.05%
United Kingdom 6.87%
Bermuda° 3.69%
Spain 2.98%
Japan 2.28%
Netherlands° 1.99%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

10.8%Last twelve months filed
33%Whole series, compounded
9.5%Best month
-15.5%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.18 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FPE.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

253 positions became 259: 18 added (5.1% of the fund at the later date), 12 dropped (2.7% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 6.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FPE compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
NATWEST GROUP PLC0.44%0.67% WELLS FARGO & COMPANY0.91%0.40%
GLOBAL ATLANTIC (FIN) COMPANY0.44%0.59% ENBRIDGE INC0.94%0.55%
ANNALY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC0.06%0.19% BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA (THE)0.65%0.29%
ANNALY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC0.11%0.24% TORONTO DOMINION BANK (THE)1.05%0.72%
GLOBAL ATLANTIC (FIN) COMPANY0.56%0.64% COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL INC0.30%0.02%
BBVA MEXICO SA TEXAS BRANCH0.55%0.62% HSBC HOLDINGS PLC0.94%0.69%

New: BNP PARIBAS SA (1.15%), WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (0.62%), EVERSOURCE ENERGY (0.43%), CHARLES SCHWAB CORP (THE) (0.39%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.34%), TELUS CORP (0.32%). Gone: BNP PARIBAS (0.88%), COBANK ACB (0.55%), AXIS SPECIALTY FINANCE (0.25%), GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (0.23%), TELUS CORP (0.20%), ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (0.19%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT71.94%
preferred equity EP27.83%
equity EC0.24%

26.8% of FPE is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 1.4% 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 FPE (140.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
TAGG T. Rowe Price QM U.S. Bond ETF 1,817 125.9 20.44% 2026-07-31
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
FIXD First Trust Smith Opportunistic Fixed Income ETF 489 141.5 19.97% 2026-05-31
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

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