Fund · First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF · measured from SEC filings
FPEI holdings
FPEI reports 174 holdings and behaves like 106.7 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: 1.1% at a quoted market price (level 1), 14 issuer countries, 0.18% restricted securities.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31FPEI's largest investment is BAC V6.625 Perp at 3% of net assets. Acafp V7.125 Perp 144a and Intned V7 Perp follow; the three together are 6.58%. Ten companies are 17.96% of the fund; the other 164 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, FPEI behaves like 106.7 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 2.2 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FPEI has become less concentrated: it behaved like 70.5 at 2019-10-31 and 104.7 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 15 positions were added and 13 dropped; 9.4% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 48.82% 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, FPEI went from behaving like 70.5 equally weighted positions to 104.7 — 49% more, while its top ten went from 24.57% to 17.88% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 172 | 104.7 | 17.88% | 3.03% |
| 2026-01-31 | 170 | 102.3 | 18.13% | 3.11% |
| 2025-10-31 | 171 | 99.3 | 18.56% | 3.29% |
| 2025-07-31 | 163 | 92.2 | 19.98% | 3.37% |
| 2025-04-30 | 164 | 95.1 | 18.62% | 2.54% |
| 2025-01-31 | 166 | 99.3 | 17.18% | 2.04% |
| 2024-10-31 | 165 | 99.3 | 17.23% | 2.16% |
| 2024-07-31 | 167 | 91.5 | 19.66% | 2.46% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 168 | 90.2 | 20% | 2.63% |
| 2024-01-31 | 165 | 87.8 | 21.14% | 2.81% |
| 2023-10-31 | 172 | 91.2 | 20.52% | 3.05% |
| 2023-07-31 | 173 | 89.6 | 21.49% | 3.33% |
| 2023-04-30 | 176 | 89.7 | 21.81% | 3.44% |
| 2023-01-31 | 194 | 99.4 | 20.79% | 2.31% |
| 2022-10-31 * | 187 | 112.4 | 17.05% | 2.61% |
| 2022-07-31 | 185 | 112.4 | 17% | 2.28% |
| 2022-04-30 * | 184 | 108.5 | 17.59% | 2.51% |
| 2022-01-31 | 191 | 113.7 | 17.1% | 2.48% |
| 2021-10-31 | 186 | 110.2 | 18.09% | 2.67% |
| 2021-07-31 | 174 | 103.9 | 18.36% | 2.96% |
| 2021-04-30 | 158 | 97 | 19.27% | 2.66% |
| 2021-01-31 | 145 | 86.8 | 21.73% | 3.11% |
| 2020-10-31 | 136 | 82.1 | 22.67% | 3.7% |
| 2020-07-31 | 133 | 80.2 | 22.43% | 3.78% |
| 2020-04-30 * | 125 | 74.1 | 23.97% | 4.47% |
| 2020-01-31 | 136 | 79.6 | 22.98% | 3.38% |
| 2019-10-31 | 115 | 70.5 | 24.57% | 3.13% |
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 174 positions in FPEI's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FPEI.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 3.03% | 3.0% |
| 2 | CREDIT AGRICOLE SA | 1.86% | 4.9% |
| 3 | ING GROEP NV | 1.76% | 6.7% |
| 4 | TORONTO DOMINION BANK (THE) | 1.73% | 8.4% |
| 5 | BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA SA | 1.72% | 10.1% |
| 6 | CITIGROUP INC | 1.69% | 11.8% |
| 7 | ENBRIDGE INC | 1.58% | 13.4% |
| 8 | BANCO SANTANDER SA | 1.54% | 14.9% |
| 9 | CHARLES SCHWAB CORP (THE) | 1.51% | 16.4% |
| 10 | BANK OF MONTREAL | 1.46% | 17.9% |
| 11 | EUSHI FINANCE INC | 1.38% | 19.3% |
| 12 | BNP PARIBAS SA | 1.33% | 20.6% |
| 13 | COMMERZBANK AG | 1.31% | 21.9% |
| 14 | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 1.28% | 23.2% |
| 15 | CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE | 1.28% | 24.5% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of FPEI'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 | 48.62% |
| Canada | 16.78% |
| France | 9.38% |
| United Kingdom | 8.18% |
| Spain | 5.67% |
| Netherlands° | 2.63% |
| Germany | 2.57% |
| Japan | 2.18% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FPEI'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 0.16 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FPEI.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30170 positions became 172: 15 added (6.7% of the fund at the later date), 13 dropped (5.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 9.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FPEI 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATHENE HOLDING LTD | 0.54% | 1.03% | METLIFE INC | 0.80% | 0.26% |
| SOCIETE GENERALE SA | 0.80% | 1.08% | HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 1.13% | 0.77% |
| BNP PARIBAS SA | 0.42% | 0.69% | CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC | 0.68% | 0.40% |
| CITIGROUP INC | 1.46% | 1.69% | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (THE) | 0.50% | 0.22% |
| FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC | 0.49% | 0.69% | ENBRIDGE INC | 1.82% | 1.58% |
| GLOBAL ATLANTIC (FIN) COMPANY | 0.62% | 0.82% | BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA (THE) | 1.12% | 0.97% |
New: BNP PARIBAS SA (1.15%), WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (1.03%), EVERSOURCE ENERGY (0.94%), TELUS CORP (0.71%), CHARLES SCHWAB CORP (THE) (0.40%), TRANSCANADA PIPELINES LTD (0.38%). Gone: AMERICAN EXPRESS CO (1.27%), BNP PARIBAS (0.92%), ROYAL BANK OF CANADA (0.70%), JPMORGAN CHASE & CO (0.54%), ENERGY TRANSFER LP (0.33%), TRANSCANADA TRUST (0.22%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-3198.71% debt, 1.29% preferred equity as filed; 1.1% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1), 0.7% at level 3. Categories and levels are the filer's; 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 FPEI (106.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THYF T. Rowe Price U.S. High Yield ETF | 110 | 93.9 | 16.34% | 2026-05-31 |
| YLD Principal Active High Yield ETF | 149 | 94.3 | 17.92% | 2026-06-30 |
| PCY Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF | 103 | 101.5 | 11.64% | 2026-07-31 |
| CMDT PIMCO Commodity Strategy Active Exchange-Traded Fund | 371 | 103.2 * | 20.28% | 2026-06-30 |
| HFSI Hartford Strategic Income ETF | 1,179 | 104.1 * | 24.1% | 2026-07-31 |
| FALN iShares Fallen Angels USD Bond ETF | 159 | 109.6 | 17.8% | 2026-07-31 |
| FREI Fidelity Real Estate Income Fund | 589 | 115.9 | 18.31% | 2026-07-31 |
| LDUR PIMCO Enhanced Low Duration Active Exchange-Traded Fund | 791 | 116.3 * | 18.44% | 2026-06-30 |
| RAVI FlexShares Ultra-Short Income Fund | 246 | 116.8 | 18.78% | 2026-07-31 |
| ISHG iShares 1-3 Year International Treasury Bond ETF | 187 | 120.4 | 14.73% | 2026-07-31 |
Essays that examine FPEI
0Mentions are detected across the full text of every article, so an appearance may be a passing comparison rather than the subject. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell — see the disclaimer.