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Fund · First Trust Short Duration Managed Municipal ETF · measured from SEC filings

FSMB holdings

FSMB reports 551 holdings and behaves like 338.5 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
551 Positions reported
338.5 Effective holdings
1.6× Concentration multiple
7.07% 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% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

FSMB's largest investment is AL Seepwr 10/01/2055 at 1.06% of net assets. UT Utsmed 05/15/2058 and OH Ohsdev 11/01/2039 follow; the three together are 2.7%. Ten companies are 7.07% of the fund; the other 541 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, FSMB behaves like 338.5 holdings against a median of 236.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FSMB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 52 at 2019-10-31 and 333 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 71 positions were added and 15 dropped; 14.1% 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 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, FSMB went from behaving like 52 equally weighted positions to 333 — 540% more, while its top ten went from 28.63% to 7.2% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 553 333 7.2% 1.08%
2026-01-31 497 298.5 7.9% 1.21%
2025-10-31 473 285.4 8.21% 1.33%
2025-07-31 458 276.2 8.67% 1.37%
2025-04-30 451 263.8 9.17% 1.42%
2025-01-31 449 265.5 8.94% 1.02%
2024-10-31 449 258.7 9.23% 1.1%
2024-07-31 484 269.3 8.76% 1.09%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 498 260.6 9.31% 1.1%
2024-01-31 530 272.8 8.85% 1.06%
2023-10-31 522 259.9 9.48% 1.07%
2023-07-31 561 273.9 8.7% 1.04%
2023-04-30 600 284.4 8.58% 1.02%
2023-01-31 628 286.2 8.92% 1.07%
2022-10-31 624 278.5 9.08% 1.13%
2022-07-31 620 287 8.72% 1.38%
2022-04-30 592 277.3 9.65% 1.73%
2022-01-31 557 304.3 8.93% 1.11%
2021-10-31 497 278.7 8.82% 1%
2021-07-31 391 222.4 10.2% 1.24%
2021-04-30 328 181.5 12.5% 1.45%
2021-01-31 247 139.6 15.53% 1.87%
2020-10-31 201 119.8 17.55% 2.3%
2020-07-31 166 93.7 20.93% 2.5%
2020-04-30 * 131 79.9 23.01% 2.9%
2020-01-31 83 57.9 26.21% 3.72%
2019-10-31 73 52 28.63% 3.17%

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

#PositionWeightCumulative
1SOUTHEAST ENERGY AUTHORITY (AL)1.08%1.1%
2UTAH (UT), COUNTY OF0.85%1.9%
3OHIO AIR QUALITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (OH)0.81%2.7%
4PUBLIC FINANCE AUTHORITY (WI)0.72%3.5%
5ST JOHN BAPTIST PARISH LA0.68%4.1%
6MAIN STR ENERGY INC GA0.66%4.8%
7PALM BEACH COUNTY HEALTH FACILITIES AUTHORITY (FL)0.63%5.4%
8NEW YORK CITY MUNICIPAL WATER FINANCE AUTHORITY (NY)0.59%6.0%
9PUBLIC ENERGY AUTHORITY OF KENTUCKY (KY)0.59%6.6%
10BLACK BELT ENERGY GAS DIST ALA0.58%7.2%
11BLACK BELT ENERGY GAS DISTRICT (THE) (AL)0.58%7.8%
12NEW MEXICO MUNICIPAL ENERGY ACQUISITION AUTHORITY (NM)0.57%8.3%
13NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY (NY)0.53%8.9%
14LOS ANGELES CITY DEPARTMENT OF AIRPORTS (CA)0.53%9.4%
15ALLEGHENY COUNTY HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (PA)0.52%9.9%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

4.3%Last twelve months filed
13%Whole series, compounded
2.3%Best month
-2.7%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FSMB.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

497 positions became 553: 71 added (12.2% of the fund at the later date), 15 dropped (4.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 14.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FSMB compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
UTAH (UT), COUNTY OF0.37%0.85% CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE FINANCING AUTHORITY (CA)0.85%0.34%
PUBLIC ENERGY AUTHORITY OF KENTUCKY (KY)0.20%0.59% NEW YORK ENERGY FINANCE DEVELOPMENT CORP0.33%0.14%
METROPOLITAN WASH D C ARPTS AUTH0.26%0.42% NORTH CAROLINA MED CARE COMMN RETIREMENT FACS0.20%0.02%
NEW YORK STATE ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES CORP (NY)0.19%0.34% SOUTHEAST ENERGY AUTHORITY (AL)1.21%1.08%
AEP TEXAS INC0.20%0.35% COLORADO HEALTH FACILITIES AUTHORITY (CO)0.37%0.25%
INDIANA FINANCE AUTHORITY (IN)0.19%0.30% OHIO AIR QUALITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (OH)0.90%0.81%

New: LOS ANGELES CITY DEPARTMENT OF AIRPORTS (CA) (0.53%), ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY (AR) (0.42%), INDIANAPOLIS IND LOC PUB IMPT BD BK (0.41%), SOUTH CAROLINA JOBS-ECONOMIC DEV AUTH (0.39%), NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY PORT AUTHORITY (THE) (NY) (0.35%), MONTGOMERY COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (PA) (0.35%). Gone: NORTH CAROLINA ST MED CARE COM (0.64%), CALIFORNIA CMNTY CHOICE FING A (0.41%), HAYS CNTY TX (0.37%), ILLINOIS ST FIN AUTH GAS SPLYR (0.37%), ILLINOIS ST HSG DEV AUTH MF HS (0.37%), GTR ORLANDO AVIATION AUTH FL S (0.36%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

100.00% debt as filed; 0.0% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). 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 FSMB (338.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
HYS PIMCO 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund 860 317.8 8.27% 2026-06-30
EMLC VanEck J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF 497 318.7 7.34% 2026-06-30
FLOT iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 546 324.5 9.25% 2026-07-31
FTSM First Trust Enhanced Short Maturity ETF 689 328 8.24% 2026-07-31
BSCT Invesco BulletShares 2029 Corporate Bond ETF 455 334.2 8.28% 2026-05-31
BSCU Invesco BulletShares 2030 Corporate Bond ETF 445 343.5 7.88% 2026-05-31
CGSM Capital Group Short Duration Municipal Income ETF 1,010 344.3 9.45% 2026-06-30
EMHY iShares J.P. Morgan EM High Yield Bond ETF 691 344.5 9.42% 2026-07-31
BSCS Invesco BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF 468 352.4 7.83% 2026-05-31
PHYL PGIM Active High Yield Bond ETF 788 353.2 8.3% 2026-05-29

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