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 2026-07-31Computed 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: 26.8% at a quoted market price (level 1), 14 issuer countries, 0.72% restricted securities.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31FPE'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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 2.56% | 2.6% |
| 2 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 2.09% | 4.7% |
| 3 | BARCLAYS PLC | 1.67% | 6.3% |
| 4 | NEXTERA ENERGY CAPITAL HOLDINGS INC | 1.41% | 7.7% |
| 5 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 1.37% | 9.1% |
| 6 | XCEL ENERGY INC | 1.27% | 10.4% |
| 7 | CREDIT AGRICOLE SA | 1.24% | 11.6% |
| 8 | CITIGROUP INC | 1.22% | 12.8% |
| 9 | BNP PARIBAS SA | 1.15% | 14.0% |
| 10 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 1.10% | 15.1% |
| 11 | COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL INC | 1.10% | 16.2% |
| 12 | CHARLES SCHWAB CORP (THE) | 1.09% | 17.3% |
| 13 | HARTFORD INSURANCE GROUP INC (THE) | 1.07% | 18.3% |
| 14 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (THE) | 1.05% | 19.4% |
| 15 | BANK OF MONTREAL | 1.02% | 20.4% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of FPE'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 | 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 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FPE'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 0.18 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 → 2026-04-30253 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NATWEST GROUP PLC | 0.44% | 0.67% | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.91% | 0.40% |
| GLOBAL ATLANTIC (FIN) COMPANY | 0.44% | 0.59% | ENBRIDGE INC | 0.94% | 0.55% |
| ANNALY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC | 0.06% | 0.19% | BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA (THE) | 0.65% | 0.29% |
| ANNALY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC | 0.11% | 0.24% | TORONTO DOMINION BANK (THE) | 1.05% | 0.72% |
| GLOBAL ATLANTIC (FIN) COMPANY | 0.56% | 0.64% | COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL INC | 0.30% | 0.02% |
| BBVA MEXICO SA TEXAS BRANCH | 0.55% | 0.62% | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 0.94% | 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 DBT | 71.94% |
| preferred equity EP | 27.83% |
| equity EC | 0.24% |
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
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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 |
Essays that examine FPE
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