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 2026-07-31Computed 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: 0% at a quoted market price (level 1), 14 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31FTSM'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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AutoNation, Inc. | 1.02% | 1.0% |
| 2 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT | 0.98% | 2.0% |
| 3 | TARGA RES CORP | 0.94% | 2.9% |
| 4 | ENERGY TRANSFER LP | 0.63% | 3.6% |
| 5 | Quanta Services, Inc. | 0.56% | 4.1% |
| 6 | HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK | 0.55% | 4.7% |
| 7 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.55% | 5.2% |
| 8 | HALEON US CAPITAL LLC | 0.54% | 5.8% |
| 9 | PRA HEALTH SCIENCES INC | 0.53% | 6.3% |
| 10 | KINDER MORGAN INC | 0.52% | 6.8% |
| 11 | CRH AMERICA FINANCE INC | 0.51% | 7.3% |
| 12 | WILLIS NORTH AMERICA INC | 0.49% | 7.8% |
| 13 | SOLVENTUM CORP | 0.48% | 8.3% |
| 14 | CCL INDUSTRIES INC | 0.48% | 8.8% |
| 15 | HYATT HOTELS CORP | 0.47% | 9.2% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of FTSM'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 | 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 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of FTSM'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 0.02 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 → 2026-04-30619 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.24% | 0.55% | NISSAN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2024-A | 0.28% | 0.11% |
| US BANK NA | 0.16% | 0.33% | BMW VEHICLE LEASE TRUST 2024-1 | 0.20% | 0.04% |
| HALEON US CAPITAL LLC | 0.38% | 0.54% | PAGAYA AI DEBT GRANTOR TRUST 2025-7 | 0.25% | 0.11% |
| ALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD INC | 0.08% | 0.23% | VOLKSWAGEN AUTO LEASE TRUST 2024-A | 0.37% | 0.27% |
| HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK | 0.40% | 0.55% | DELL EQUIPMENT FINANCE TRUST 2024-2 | 0.17% | 0.07% |
| AMCOR FLEXIBLES NORTH AMERICA INC | 0.16% | 0.31% | HYUNDAI AUTO LEASE SECURITIZATION TRUST 2024-B | 0.18% | 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 DBT | 61.68% |
| ABS-O ABS-O | 21.10% |
| short-term investment STIV | 10.61% |
| CDO/CLO ABS-CBDO | 6.21% |
| mortgage-backed ABS-MBS | 0.39% |
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
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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 |
Essays that examine FTSM
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