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Fund · First Trust Enhanced Short Maturity ETF · measured from SEC filings

FTSM holdings

FTSM reports 689 holdings and behaves like 328 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
689 Positions reported
328 Effective holdings
2.1× Concentration multiple
8.24% 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: 0% at a quoted market price (level 1), 14 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

FTSM's largest investment is AutoNation Inc 0% CP 01/05/2026 at 1.02% of net assets. T 3.75 04/30/27 and Targa RES Corp 0% CP 01/05/2026 follow; the three together are 2.93%. Ten companies are 8.24% of the fund; the other 679 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, FTSM behaves like 328 holdings against a median of 236.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings FTSM has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (381.7 then, 340.8 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 174 positions were added and 134 dropped; 32.8% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 82.66% of the portfolio, across 14 countries in the filing.

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 2019

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, FTSM went from behaving like 381.7 equally weighted positions to 340.8 — 11% fewer, while its top ten went from 6.66% to 6.82% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 660 340.8 6.82% 1.02%
2026-01-31 624 322.5 6.8% 1.04%
2025-10-31 584 303.2 8% 1.59%
2025-07-31 536 324.4 6.76% 1.03%
2025-04-30 497 334.9 6.35% 0.98%
2025-01-31 397 284.9 7.55% 1.05%
2024-10-31 400 282.2 7.85% 1.05%
2024-07-31 401 271.8 8.61% 1.21%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 435 284.3 8.37% 1.15%
2024-01-31 440 291.2 7.4% 1.1%
2023-10-31 470 289.2 8.29% 1.57%
2023-07-31 490 290.6 8.73% 1.52%
2023-04-28 568 377.9 5.87% 1.02%
2023-01-31 585 325.6 8.53% 2.02%
2022-10-31 612 363.8 7.94% 1.33%
2022-07-29 559 313.3 9.57% 1.64%
2022-04-29 517 353.5 5.83% 0.62%
2022-01-31 482 313.5 6.59% 0.96%
2021-10-29 498 329.3 5.9% 0.79%
2021-07-30 497 314 7.11% 1.12%
2021-04-30 502 319.7 6.47% 0.85%
2021-01-29 568 347.5 6.31% 1.2%
2020-10-30 639 371.5 5.92% 0.87%
2020-07-31 696 386.2 6.46% 1.08%
2020-04-30 705 388.5 5.71% 0.83%
2020-01-31 714 376.2 5.7% 0.8%
2019-10-31 762 381.7 6.66% 1.27%

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

#PositionWeightCumulative
1AutoNation, Inc.1.02%1.0%
2UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT0.98%2.0%
3TARGA RES CORP0.94%2.9%
4ENERGY TRANSFER LP0.63%3.6%
5Quanta Services, Inc.0.56%4.1%
6HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK0.55%4.7%
7T-MOBILE USA INC0.55%5.2%
8HALEON US CAPITAL LLC0.54%5.8%
9PRA HEALTH SCIENCES INC0.53%6.3%
10KINDER MORGAN INC0.52%6.8%
11CRH AMERICA FINANCE INC0.51%7.3%
12WILLIS NORTH AMERICA INC0.49%7.8%
13SOLVENTUM CORP0.48%8.3%
14CCL INDUSTRIES INC0.48%8.8%
15HYATT HOTELS CORP0.47%9.2%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of FTSM'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 81.42%
Cayman Islands° 6.03%
Canada 5.13%
Sweden 1.88%
United Kingdom 1.82%
Australia 1.25%
Netherlands° 0.93%
Switzerland 0.38%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

4.2%Last twelve months filed
21%Whole series, compounded
1.1%Best month
-1.7%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.02 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: FTSM.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

619 positions became 659: 174 added (30.0% of the fund at the later date), 134 dropped (27.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 32.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of FTSM compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
T-MOBILE USA INC0.24%0.55% NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2024-A0.28%0.11%
US BANK NA0.16%0.33% BMW VEHICLE LEASE TRUST 2024-10.20%0.04%
HALEON US CAPITAL LLC0.38%0.54% PAGAYA AI DEBT GRANTOR TRUST 2025-70.25%0.11%
ALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD INC0.08%0.23% VOLKSWAGEN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2024-A0.37%0.27%
HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK0.40%0.55% DELL EQUIPMENT FINANCE TRUST 2024-20.17%0.07%
AMCOR FLEXIBLES NORTH AMERICA INC0.16%0.31% HYUNDAI AUTO LEASE SECURITIZATION TRUST 2024-B0.18%0.10%

New: AutoNation, Inc. (1.02%), TARGA RES CORP (0.94%), ENERGY TRANSFER LP (0.63%), Quanta Services, Inc. (0.56%), Vulcan Materials Company (0.47%), SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY (0.47%). Gone: AUTONATION INC 02/02/2026 (1.04%), TARGA RESOURCES 0226 (0.96%), INTERCONTINENTAL 0226 (0.72%), SWEDBANK FRN 04/26 (0.64%), AMERICAN WATER C 0226 (0.64%), BANK OF NY MELLON CORP (0.56%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT61.68%
ABS-O ABS-O21.10%
short-term investment STIV10.61%
CDO/CLO ABS-CBDO6.21%
mortgage-backed ABS-MBS0.39%

0.0% of FTSM 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, debt funds

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of FTSM (328). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
FLUD Franklin Ultra Short Bond ETF 519 307.6 8.86% 2026-06-30
FTCB First Trust Core Investment Grade ETF 725 314.5 9.82% 2026-07-31
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
BSCT Invesco BulletShares 2029 Corporate Bond ETF 455 334.2 8.28% 2026-05-31
FSMB First Trust Short Duration Managed Municipal ETF 551 338.5 7.07% 2026-07-31
BSCU Invesco BulletShares 2030 Corporate Bond ETF 445 343.5 7.88% 2026-05-31
CGSM Capital Group Short Duration Municipal Income ETF 1,010 344.3 9.45% 2026-06-30
EMHY iShares J.P. Morgan EM High Yield Bond ETF 691 344.5 9.42% 2026-07-31

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