Fund · First Trust Core Investment Grade ETF · measured from SEC filings
FTCB holdings
FTCB reports 725 holdings and behaves like 314.5 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 10 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: 0.98% at a quoted market price (level 1), 12 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31FTCB's largest investment is T 3.5 02/15/29 at 1.71% of net assets. Fnma-30yr and Fnma-30yr follow; the three together are 4.28%. Ten companies are 9.82% of the fund; the other 715 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, FTCB behaves like 314.5 holdings against a median of 236.4 — close to the median. Across 10 quarterly filings FTCB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 59 at 2024-01-31 and 295.5 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 119 positions were added and 69 dropped; 25.9% 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 2024
10Between 2024-01-31 and 2026-04-30, FTCB went from behaving like 59 equally weighted positions to 295.5 — 401% more, while its top ten went from 29.49% to 9.88% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 699 | 295.5 | 9.88% | 1.63% |
| 2026-01-31 | 648 | 293.4 | 8.68% | 1% |
| 2025-10-31 | 583 | 255.2 | 10.15% | 1.24% |
| 2025-07-31 | 562 | 229.2 | 12.13% | 1.53% |
| 2025-04-30 | 490 | 175.8 | 14.66% | 1.99% |
| 2025-01-31 | 423 | 107.3 | 22.46% | 3.37% |
| 2024-10-31 | 294 | 128.4 | 18.05% | 2.12% |
| 2024-07-31 | 227 | 45.8 | 32.94% | 10.12% |
Earlier filings (2 more, back to 2024-01-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 207 | 56 | 31.22% | 5.02% |
| 2024-01-31 | 201 | 59 | 29.49% | 3.29% |
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 725 positions in FTCB's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FTCB.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 1.63% | 1.6% |
| 2 | FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION | 1.29% | 2.9% |
| 3 | FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION | 1.15% | 4.1% |
| 4 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 1.11% | 5.2% |
| 5 | MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS | 1.03% | 6.2% |
| 6 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 0.84% | 7.1% |
| 7 | GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION | 0.75% | 7.8% |
| 8 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 0.71% | 8.5% |
| 9 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 0.69% | 9.2% |
| 10 | FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION | 0.67% | 9.9% |
| 11 | PMT LOAN TRUST 2025-CNF1 | 0.66% | 10.5% |
| 12 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 0.66% | 11.2% |
| 13 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 0.65% | 11.8% |
| 14 | Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. | 0.63% | 12.5% |
| 15 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 0.62% | 13.1% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of FTCB'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 | 93.19% |
| Cayman Islands° | 2.27% |
| Canada | 1.42% |
| Ireland° | 0.66% |
| United Kingdom | 0.46% |
| Switzerland | 0.45% |
| Jersey° | 0.37% |
| Netherlands° | 0.35% |
Returns the fund reported
2023-11 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FTCB's own filings, 30 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
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: FTCB.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30648 positions became 698: 119 added (23.5% of the fund at the later date), 69 dropped (9.7% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 25.9%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FTCB 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MORGAN STANLEY | 0.10% | 0.41% | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 0.48% | 0.04% |
| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 0.04% | 0.28% | JP MORGAN MORTGAGE TRUST 2026-1 | 0.54% | 0.30% |
| GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC | 0.26% | 0.47% | PMT LOAN TRUST 2025-CNF1 | 0.85% | 0.66% |
| MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS | 0.82% | 1.03% | GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION | 0.92% | 0.75% |
| FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP | 0.09% | 0.24% | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 1.00% | 0.84% |
| MEDLINE BORROWER LP | 0.37% | 0.51% | Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. | 0.78% | 0.63% |
New: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (1.63%), FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (1.29%), FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (1.15%), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (1.11%), FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (0.48%), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (0.47%). Gone: US TREASURY N/B (0.96%), TSY INFL IX N/B (0.84%), TREASURY BILL (0.48%), US TREASURY N/B (0.48%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.47%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.37%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| debt DBT | 42.13% |
| ABS-O ABS-O | 39.29% |
| mortgage-backed ABS-MBS | 14.63% |
| CDO/CLO ABS-CBDO | 2.97% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.79% |
| DIR DIR | 0.18% |
| equity EC | 0.01% |
1.0% of FTCB is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). 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.
Derivative exposure and counterparties
as of 2026-04-30A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $2.37B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
69 option positions filed, 69 of them written. The book as filed:
| Type | Side | Strike | Expiry | Underlying |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Call | Written | 121 | 2026-05-22 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 108.75 | 2026-05-22 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 111 | 2026-05-22 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 103.75 | 2026-05-22 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Written | 120 | 2026-11-20 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 103.5 | 2026-08-21 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 109 | 2026-08-21 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 105 | 2026-11-20 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 106 | 2026-05-22 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Written | 116 | 2026-08-21 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Written | 110 | 2026-08-21 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 103.875 | 2026-05-22 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Written | 109.5 | 2026-08-21 | as filed, not named |
| Call | Written | 128 | 2026-05-22 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 107 | 2026-08-21 | as filed, not named |
| Put | Written | 103.5 | 2026-05-22 | as filed, not named |
34 more in leverage.json.
Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).
Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds
10Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FTCB (314.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFGP Dimensional Global Core Plus Fixed Income ETF | 1,540 | 284.7 | 11.54% | 2026-07-31 |
| BBAG JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF | 1,810 | 286.5 | 11.44% | 2026-05-31 |
| EAGG iShares ESG Aware U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF | 5,212 | 288.9 | 8.45% | 2026-05-31 |
| IGEB iShares Investment Grade Systematic Bond ETF | 466 | 289.4 | 5.51% | 2026-05-31 |
| FLUD Franklin Ultra Short Bond ETF | 519 | 307.6 | 8.86% | 2026-06-30 |
| 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 |
Essays that examine FTCB
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