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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 2026-07-31
184 Positions reported
56.9 Effective holdings
3.2× Concentration multiple
31.81% 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: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), 11 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

FTLS'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

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Between 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.

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

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1APPLE INC6.00%6.0%
2NVIDIA CORP3.52%9.5%
3MICROSOFT CORP3.27%12.8%
4ALPHABET INC2.74%15.5%
5JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY2.50%18.0%
6BANK OF AMERICA CORP2.44%20.5%
7ASML HOLDING NV2.39%22.9%
8BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC2.17%25.0%
9QUALCOMM INC2.08%27.1%
10COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP2.02%29.1%
11CITIGROUP INC2.01%31.1%
12AMAZON.COM INC1.82%33.0%
13BROADCOM INC1.78%34.7%
14SANDISK CORP1.77%36.5%
15DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS1.76%38.3%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of FTLS'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 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 – 2026-04

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

17.0%Last twelve months filed
91%Whole series, compounded
6.5%Best month
-7.2%Worst month

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 → 2026-04-30

221 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 increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
BANK OF AMERICA CORP0.39%2.44% MICROSOFT CORP5.41%3.27%
CITIGROUP INC0.43%2.01% AMAZON.COM INC3.81%1.82%
QUALCOMM INC0.52%2.08% ALPHABET INC4.67%2.74%
CHEVRON CORP0.22%1.72% META PLATFORMS INC2.78%1.38%
JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY1.14%2.50% NVIDIA CORP4.59%3.52%
ADOBE INC0.17%1.44% BROADCOM INC2.21%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 2026-07-31

95.08% 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 2026-04-30

A 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.

96.34%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
-8.85%Futures notional (2)
87.5%Sum, % of net assets

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

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 FTLS (56.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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

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