Fund · First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF · measured from SEC filings
FTLS holdings
FTLS reports 184 holdings and behaves like 56.9 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: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), 11 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31FTLS's largest investment is Apple Inc at 5.89% of net assets. Nvidia Corp and Microsoft Corp follow; the three together are 12.55%. Ten companies are 31.81% of the fund; the other 174 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, FTLS behaves like 56.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FTLS has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (78.3 then, 65.4 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 129 positions were added and 150 dropped; 58.4% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 84.89% of the portfolio, across 11 countries in the filing.
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
27Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, FTLS went from behaving like 78.3 equally weighted positions to 65.4 — 17% fewer, while its top ten went from 20.7% to 29.14% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 200 | 65.4 | 29.14% | 6% |
| 2026-01-31 | 221 | 56.1 | 34.54% | 6.16% |
| 2025-10-31 | 175 | 46.6 | 35.07% | 7.35% |
| 2025-07-31 | 220 | 50.2 | 34.9% | 6.11% |
| 2025-04-30 | 248 | 60 | 29.58% | 4.22% |
| 2025-01-31 | 175 | 52.9 | 33% | 5.72% |
| 2024-10-31 | 207 | 57.5 | 30.17% | 7.23% |
| 2024-07-31 | 227 | 75.6 | 26.27% | 4.36% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 283 | 72.1 | 27.8% | 6.21% |
| 2024-01-31 | 139 | 54.3 | 32.01% | 5.79% |
| 2023-10-31 * | 174 | 62.6 | 29.26% | 5.84% |
| 2023-07-31 | 119 | 61.7 | 27.14% | 3.83% |
| 2023-04-30 | 142 | 66.7 | 28.8% | 4.64% |
| 2023-01-31 | 223 | 78.3 | 25.08% | 4.05% |
| 2022-10-31 * | 153 | 91.9 | 19.78% | 4.86% |
| 2022-07-31 * | 224 | 81.9 | 24.38% | 5.64% |
| 2022-04-30 * | 228 | 90.8 | 24.8% | 4.31% |
| 2022-01-31 * | 221 | 64 | 29.6% | 6.39% |
| 2021-10-31 | 196 | 60.4 | 30.45% | 5.87% |
| 2021-07-31 | 256 | 68.4 | 29.52% | 4.61% |
| 2021-04-30 | 236 | 71.6 | 26.42% | 3.67% |
| 2021-01-31 | 165 | 73.6 | 24.81% | 3.24% |
| 2020-10-31 | 176 | 61 | 31.39% | 5.87% |
| 2020-07-31 | 158 | 73.6 | 26.28% | 3.86% |
| 2020-04-30 * | 152 | 71.2 | 25.21% | 3.03% |
| 2020-01-31 | 168 | 64.6 | 26.09% | 2.92% |
| 2019-10-31 | 142 | 78.3 | 20.7% | 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 184 positions in FTLS's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: FTLS.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | APPLE INC | 6.00% | 6.0% |
| 2 | NVIDIA CORP | 3.52% | 9.5% |
| 3 | MICROSOFT CORP | 3.27% | 12.8% |
| 4 | ALPHABET INC | 2.74% | 15.5% |
| 5 | JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 2.50% | 18.0% |
| 6 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 2.44% | 20.5% |
| 7 | ASML HOLDING NV | 2.39% | 22.9% |
| 8 | BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC | 2.17% | 25.0% |
| 9 | QUALCOMM INC | 2.08% | 27.1% |
| 10 | COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP | 2.02% | 29.1% |
| 11 | CITIGROUP INC | 2.01% | 31.1% |
| 12 | AMAZON.COM INC | 1.82% | 33.0% |
| 13 | BROADCOM INC | 1.78% | 34.7% |
| 14 | SANDISK CORP | 1.77% | 36.5% |
| 15 | DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS | 1.76% | 38.3% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of FTLS'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 | 90.41% |
| Netherlands° | 2.54% |
| Canada | 1.59% |
| Ireland° | 1.18% |
| Cayman Islands° | 1.06% |
| Switzerland | 0.92% |
| United Kingdom | 0.77% |
| Brazil | 0.35% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FTLS'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 0.11 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FTLS.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30221 positions became 200: 129 added (37.0% of the fund at the later date), 150 dropped (47.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 58.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FTLS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.39% | 2.44% | MICROSOFT CORP | 5.41% | 3.27% |
| CITIGROUP INC | 0.43% | 2.01% | AMAZON.COM INC | 3.81% | 1.82% |
| QUALCOMM INC | 0.52% | 2.08% | ALPHABET INC | 4.67% | 2.74% |
| CHEVRON CORP | 0.22% | 1.72% | META PLATFORMS INC | 2.78% | 1.38% |
| JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY | 1.14% | 2.50% | NVIDIA CORP | 4.59% | 3.52% |
| ADOBE INC | 0.17% | 1.44% | BROADCOM INC | 2.21% | 1.78% |
New: ASML HOLDING NV (2.39%), SANDISK CORP (1.77%), ANALOG DEVICES INC (1.61%), PDD HOLDINGS INC (0.91%), GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY (0.76%), PROGRESSIVE CORP (THE) (0.73%). Gone: Tesla Inc (1.98%), Eli Lilly & Co (1.58%), Micron Technology Inc (1.21%), Lam Research Corp (1.09%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The (0.91%), KLA Corp (0.89%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-3195.08% equity, 4.91% short-term investment as filed; 100.0% 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.
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 $2.30B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FTLS (56.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QDPL Pacer Metaurus US Large Cap Dividend Multiplier 400 ETF | 517 | 55.7 | 34.04% | 2026-07-31 |
| DFUS Dimensional U.S. Equity Market ETF | 2,237 | 56.4 | 34.69% | 2026-07-31 |
| EPI WisdomTree India Earnings Fund | 571 | 56.4 | 34.23% | 2026-06-30 |
| GRPM Invesco S&P MidCap 400 GARP ETF | 61 | 56.4 | 23.72% | 2026-07-31 |
| CGIE Capital Group International Equity ETF | 73 | 56.9 | 27.76% | 2026-05-31 |
| WCLD WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund | 65 | 57 | 26.52% | 2026-06-30 |
| VIG Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund | 337 | 57.1 | 33.46% | 2026-07-31 |
| TSME Thrivent Small-Mid Cap Equity ETF | 69 | 57.2 | 26.31% | 2026-06-30 |
| MSLC Morgan Stanley Pathway Large Cap Equity ETF | 1,007 | 57.3 | 35.29% | 2026-05-31 |
| TDVG T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth ETF | 98 | 57.4 | 29.79% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine FTLS
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