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Fund · First Trust Capital Strength ETF · measured from SEC filings

FTCS holdings

FTCS reports 52 holdings and behaves like 49.7 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-06-30. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 28 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-06-30
52 Positions reported
49.7 Effective holdings
1× Concentration multiple
23.04% 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: 99.04% at a quoted market price (level 1), 2 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-06-30

FTCS's largest investment is Cisco Systems Inc at 2.74% of net assets. Monster Beverage Corp and T. Rowe Price Group Inc follow; the three together are 7.63%. Ten companies are 23.04% of the fund; the other 42 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, FTCS behaves like 49.7 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 28 quarterly filings FTCS has held roughly steady since 2019-09-30 (49.8 then, 49.7 now). Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 13 positions were added and 12 dropped; 28.8% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, FTCS went from behaving like 49.8 equally weighted positions to 49.7 — 0% fewer, while its top ten went from 21.42% to 23.04% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-06-30 52 49.7 23.04% 2.74%
2026-03-31 51 49.4 23.13% 2.84%
2025-12-31 51 49.5 23% 2.52%
2025-09-30 51 49.6 22.7% 2.6%
2025-06-30 51 49.6 22.86% 2.57%
2025-03-31 51 49.6 22.66% 2.38%
2024-12-31 51 49.8 21.93% 2.34%
2024-09-30 51 49.9 21.64% 2.31%
Earlier filings (20 more, back to 2019-09-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-06-30 50 49.7 22.69% 2.48%
2024-03-31 51 49.6 22.58% 2.43%
2023-12-31 50 49.6 22.51% 2.37%
2023-09-29 50 49.8 21.77% 2.42%
2023-06-30 50 49.7 22.31% 2.38%
2023-03-31 50 49.8 21.98% 2.3%
2022-12-30 50 49.8 21.9% 2.38%
2022-09-30 50 49.7 22.28% 2.4%
2022-06-30 50 49.7 22.07% 2.32%
2022-03-31 50 49.5 22.89% 2.42%
2021-12-31 50 49.6 22.31% 2.44%
2021-09-30 50 49.8 21.86% 2.25%
2021-06-30 50 49.8 21.9% 2.27%
2021-03-31 50 49.7 22.11% 2.41%
2020-12-31 50 49.7 22.4% 2.34%
2020-09-30 50 49.5 22.59% 2.53%
2020-06-30 50 49.5 22.85% 2.65%
2020-03-31 50 49 24.08% 2.61%
2019-12-31 50 49.8 21.82% 2.28%
2019-09-30 50 49.8 21.42% 2.2%

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 2026-06-30

The 15 largest of 52 positions in FTCS's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FTCS.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1CISCO SYSTEMS INC2.74%2.7%
2MONSTER BEVERAGE CORP2.52%5.3%
3T. ROWE PRICE GROUP INC2.36%7.6%
4AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC2.25%9.9%
5CINCINNATI FINANCIAL CORP2.24%12.1%
6AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC2.20%14.3%
7JOHNSON & JOHNSON2.19%16.5%
8UNION PACIFIC CORP2.18%18.7%
9VISA INC2.18%20.9%
10MERCK & COMPANY INC2.17%23.0%
11COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE)2.16%25.2%
12APPLE INC2.16%27.4%
13PAYCHEX INC2.15%29.5%
14COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY2.15%31.7%
15W. R. BERKLEY CORP2.14%33.8%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-06-30

Share of FTCS'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 95.80%
Ireland° 4.20%

Returns the fund reported

2019-07 – 2026-06

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FTCS's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

4.5%Last twelve months filed
82%Whole series, compounded
11.3%Best month
-10.7%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.05 percentage points over 84 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FTCS.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30

51 positions became 52: 13 added (23.6% of the fund at the later date), 12 dropped (23.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 28.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FTCS compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-03-312026-06-30Largest decreases2026-03-312026-06-30
AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC1.61%2.25% EOG RESOURCES INC2.84%2.04%
T. ROWE PRICE GROUP INC1.75%2.36% NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP2.12%1.54%
CISCO SYSTEMS INC2.13%2.74% CBOE GLOBAL MARKETS INC2.13%1.63%
MONSTER BEVERAGE CORP1.92%2.53% PEPSICO INC2.20%1.73%
PAYCHEX INC1.71%2.16% GILEAD SCIENCES INC2.31%1.85%
VISA INC1.90%2.18% ROSS STORES INC2.33%1.88%

New: CINCINNATI FINANCIAL CORP (2.24%), AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC (2.20%), UNION PACIFIC CORP (2.18%), MERCK & COMPANY INC (2.18%), 3M COMPANY (2.11%), ALPHABET INC (2.11%). Gone: Arch Capital Group Ltd. (2.19%), Hershey Co. (The) (2.17%), Honeywell International Inc. (2.13%), AbbVie Inc. (2.10%), Dover Corporation (2.09%), Aflac Incorporated (2.07%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-06-30

99.95% equity, 0.05% short-term investment as filed; 99.0% 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, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FTCS (49.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
BKDV BNY Mellon Dynamic Value ETF 81 49.2 33.25% 2026-07-31
SMRI Bushido Capital US Equity ETF 51 49.2 23.45% 2026-07-31
NULV Nuveen ESG Large-Cap Value ETF 101 49.5 28.67% 2026-07-31
USCL iShares Climate Conscious & Transition MSCI USA ETF 272 49.6 38.38% 2026-05-31
AGIX KraneShares Artificial Intelligence and Technology Public and Private ETF 62 49.6 30.75% 2026-06-30
ILCB iShares Morningstar U.S. Equity ETF 530 49.8 36.84% 2026-07-31
CGGO Capital Group Global Growth Equity ETF 108 49.9 35.03% 2026-05-31
BKLC BNY Mellon US Large Cap Core Equity ETF 507 49.9 37.08% 2026-07-31
NFTY First Trust India NIFTY 50 Equal Weight ETF 50 50 20.68% 2026-06-30
MOAT VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF 55 50.1 25.32% 2026-06-30

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