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Fund · First Trust Senior Loan Fund · measured from SEC filings

FTSL holdings

FTSL reports 379 holdings and behaves like 80.9 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
379 Positions reported
80.9 Effective holdings
4.7× Concentration multiple
19.3% 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: 9.01% at a quoted market price (level 1), 12 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

The largest line in FTSL's filing is not a stock but Morgan Stanley Institutional Liquidity Funds Treas PTF Inst, a short-term position at 9.54% of net assets. Ten companies are 19.3% of the fund; the other 369 share the rest. Among the 6 loan funds measured here, FTSL behaves like 80.9 holdings against a median of 105.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FTSL has become more concentrated: it behaved like 100.7 at 2019-10-31 and 73.5 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 74 positions were added and 92 dropped; 28.7% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable loan 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, FTSL went from behaving like 100.7 equally weighted positions to 73.5 — 27% fewer, while its top ten went from 20.39% to 21.11% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 319 73.5 21.11% 9.1%
2026-01-31 341 137.2 15.98% 4.42%
2025-10-31 334 129 17.13% 4.67%
2025-07-31 315 108.9 18.4% 5.76%
2025-04-30 280 79.4 20.79% 8.1%
2025-01-31 286 61.1 21.97% 10.3%
2024-10-31 239 96.9 18.84% 5.4%
2024-07-31 231 76.7 21.24% 7.75%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 222 82 20.8% 6.88%
2024-01-31 213 71.9 23.95% 7.39%
2023-10-31 203 74.8 25.13% 5.75%
2023-07-31 193 62.3 28.09% 6.79%
2023-04-28 189 67 27.92% 4.81%
2023-01-31 199 54.9 29.67% 8.73%
2022-10-31 219 76.5 24.69% 4.77%
2022-07-29 233 91.3 20.08% 2.21%
2022-04-29 310 88.1 20.53% 6.04%
2022-01-31 328 44.8 25.16% 12.79%
2021-10-29 316 57.9 23.82% 10.36%
2021-07-30 291 39 27.59% 13.88%
2021-04-30 269 43.3 27.09% 12.73%
2021-01-29 201 58.2 26.29% 8.91%
2020-10-30 171 75.1 24.05% 4.8%
2020-07-31 184 78.9 23.66% 4.86%
2020-04-30 193 67.5 25.82% 7.36%
2020-01-31 230 80.4 23.36% 6.35%
2019-10-31 221 100.7 20.39% 2.58%

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

#PositionWeightCumulative
1MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS9.10%9.1%
2Whatabrands LLC1.94%11.0%
3Acrisure LLC1.80%12.8%
4AthenaHealth Group Inc1.71%14.6%
5Quikrete Holdings Inc1.55%16.1%
6IRB Holding Corp1.52%17.6%
7White Cap Supply Holdings LLC(f/k/a White Cap Buyer LLC)1.24%18.9%
8OneDigital Borrower LLC1.22%20.1%
9Transdigm Inc1.18%21.3%
10TAMKO Building Products Inc1.18%22.4%
11Proofpoint Inc1.18%23.6%
12POST HOLDINGS INC1.11%24.7%
13Leia Finco US LLC1.08%25.8%
14Clarios Global LP1.07%26.9%
15HIG Finance 2 Limited1.06%27.9%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of FTSL'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 98.08%
Canada 1.03%
Bermuda° 0.41%
United Kingdom 0.33%
Ireland° 0.15%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

5.4%Last twelve months filed
38%Whole series, compounded
3.5%Best month
-8.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.15 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FTSL.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

285 positions became 267: 74 added (15.4% of the fund at the later date), 92 dropped (20.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 28.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FTSL compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS4.42%9.10% Waystar Technologies Inc1.04%0.25%
TAMKO Building Products Inc0.60%1.18% Project Ruby Ultimate Parent Corp1.36%0.76%
Ardonagh Group Finco Pty Ltd0.21%0.76% Gainwell Acquisition Corp0.83%0.23%
IRB Holding Corp1.03%1.52% Ryan Specialty Group LLC0.87%0.36%
Filtration Group Corporation0.63%1.02% First Advantage Holdings LLC0.62%0.13%
White Cap Supply Holdings LLC(f/k/a White Cap Buyer LLC)0.84%1.24% Vista Management Holding Inc.0.48%0.04%

New: 1011778 BC Unlimited Liability Company (1.04%), Triton Water Holdings Inc (0.75%), Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc (0.64%), MI Windows and Doors LLC (0.60%), Anticimex Global AB (f/k/a Seren Bidco AB) (0.53%), Action Environmental Group Inc, The (0.51%). Gone: X Corp (f/k/a Twitter Inc) (1.26%), Triton Water Holdings Inc (0.72%), Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. (0.65%), Froneri International Limited (0.55%), Miter Brands Acquisition Holdco, Inc. (0.53%), Lumen Technologies, Inc. (0.52%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
loan LON77.07%
debt DBT13.92%
short-term investment STIV9.01%

9.0% of FTSL 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.

Neighbours by effective holdings, loan funds

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Every measured loan fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FTSL (80.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
JHLN John Hancock Global Senior Loan ETF 438 25.4 24.64% 2026-06-30
TFLR T. Rowe Price Floating Rate ETF 360 55.6 21.95% 2026-05-31
FLRT Pacer Aristotle Pacific Floating Rate High Income ETF 319 129.8 13.58% 2026-07-31
SRLN State Street(R) Blackstone Senior Loan ETF 743 132.2 17.33% 2026-06-30
HYBL State Street(R) Blackstone High Income ETF 643 243.2 11.58% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine FTSL

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