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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 2026-07-31
174 Positions reported
106.7 Effective holdings
1.6× Concentration multiple
17.96% 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: 1.1% at a quoted market price (level 1), 14 issuer countries, 0.18% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

FPEI'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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 2026-04-30

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1BANK OF AMERICA CORP3.03%3.0%
2CREDIT AGRICOLE SA1.86%4.9%
3ING GROEP NV1.76%6.7%
4TORONTO DOMINION BANK (THE)1.73%8.4%
5BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA SA1.72%10.1%
6CITIGROUP INC1.69%11.8%
7ENBRIDGE INC1.58%13.4%
8BANCO SANTANDER SA1.54%14.9%
9CHARLES SCHWAB CORP (THE)1.51%16.4%
10BANK OF MONTREAL1.46%17.9%
11EUSHI FINANCE INC1.38%19.3%
12BNP PARIBAS SA1.33%20.6%
13COMMERZBANK AG1.31%21.9%
14HSBC HOLDINGS PLC1.28%23.2%
15CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE1.28%24.5%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of FPEI'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 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 – 2026-04

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

10.9%Last twelve months filed
41%Whole series, compounded
7.6%Best month
-14.8%Worst month

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 → 2026-04-30

170 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 increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
ATHENE HOLDING LTD0.54%1.03% METLIFE INC0.80%0.26%
SOCIETE GENERALE SA0.80%1.08% HSBC HOLDINGS PLC1.13%0.77%
BNP PARIBAS SA0.42%0.69% CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP INC0.68%0.40%
CITIGROUP INC1.46%1.69% GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (THE)0.50%0.22%
FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC0.49%0.69% ENBRIDGE INC1.82%1.58%
GLOBAL ATLANTIC (FIN) COMPANY0.62%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 2026-07-31

98.71% 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

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Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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

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