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PFFA holdings

PFFA reports 196 holdings and behaves like 100.9 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
196 Positions reported
100.9 Effective holdings
1.9× Concentration multiple
17.81% 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: 99.44% at a quoted market price (level 1), 4 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

PFFA's largest investment is Flagstar Bank NA Depositary Shares, Each Representing A 1/40th Interest IN A Share OF Wfixed-to-floating Rate Series A Noncumulative Perpetual Preferr at 2.47% of net assets. Energy Transfer LP 9.250% Series I Fixed Rate Perpetual Preferred Units and First Citizens Bancshares Inc Depositary Shares, Each Representing A 1/40th Interest IN A Share OF 6.625% Non-cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock SER follow; the three together are 7.28%. Ten companies are 17.81% of the fund; the other 186 share the rest. Among the 6 preferred funds measured here, PFFA behaves like 100.9 holdings against a median of 104.1 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings PFFA has become less concentrated: it behaved like 56.1 at 2019-10-31 and 99.8 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-30 and 2026-04-30 filings 14 positions were added and 8 dropped; 7.7% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable preferred 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, PFFA went from behaving like 56.1 equally weighted positions to 99.8 — 78% more, while its top ten went from 29.98% to 17.86% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 199 99.8 17.86% 1.97%
2026-01-30 193 96.8 18.84% 2.07%
2025-10-31 186 93.3 19.35% 2.85%
2025-07-31 184 88.3 20.14% 2.78%
2025-04-30 185 82.1 21.84% 2.73%
2025-01-31 208 86.2 20.29% 2.44%
2024-10-31 216 85.1 20.93% 2.49%
2024-07-31 188 85.1 21.84% 2.95%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 187 78.4 23.41% 3.16%
2024-01-31 199 76.5 23.77% 4.1%
2023-10-31 207 65.7 28.72% 4.53%
2023-07-31 214 69.8 27.13% 3.97%
2023-04-28 210 65.5 28.16% 3.57%
2023-01-31 174 64.5 28.17% 3.55%
2022-10-31 167 60 29.73% 3.91%
2022-07-29 165 61.2 28.74% 3.32%
2022-04-29 167 60.8 28.6% 3.41%
2022-01-31 159 58.9 29.68% 3.52%
2021-10-29 163 60.4 28.79% 3.34%
2021-07-30 175 61.9 29.22% 3.75%
2021-04-30 161 60.5 28.83% 4.01%
2021-01-29 155 58.2 30.13% 4.26%
2020-10-30 159 58.8 29.72% 4.67%
2020-07-31 142 54 31.69% 4.84%
2020-04-30 116 49.3 33.08% 6.09%
2020-01-31 107 52.9 30.99% 4.09%
2019-10-31 110 56.1 29.98% 3.89%

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

#PositionWeightCumulative
1FLAGSTAR BANK NA1.97%2.0%
2ENERGY TRANSFER LP1.94%3.9%
3FIRST CITIZENS BANCSHARES INC1.89%5.8%
4TELEPHONE & DATA SYSTEMS INC1.87%7.7%
5BANC OF CALIFORNIA INC1.84%9.5%
6KKR & CO. INC1.79%11.3%
7RLJ LODGING TRUST1.65%12.9%
8ALBEMARLE CORP1.65%14.6%
9APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT INC1.64%16.2%
10GLOBAL NET LEASE INC1.62%17.9%
11TWO HARBORS INVESTMENTS CORP1.55%19.4%
12MERCHANTS BANCORP (INDIANA)1.55%21.0%
13DIVERSIFIED HEALTHCARE TRUST1.54%22.5%
14BABCOCK & WILCOX ENTERPRISES INC1.54%24.0%
15XCEL ENERGY INC1.48%25.5%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of PFFA'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 94.32%
Bermuda° 4.10%
Canada 1.07%
Marshall Islands° 0.49%
Cayman Islands° 0.02%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

14.1%Last twelve months filed
55%Whole series, compounded
37.5%Best month
-47.1%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.41 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: PFFA.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-30 → 2026-04-30

193 positions became 199: 14 added (4.2% of the fund at the later date), 8 dropped (0.6% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of PFFA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-302026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-302026-04-30
ALBEMARLE CORP1.07%1.65% FLAGSTAR BANK NA1.52%1.04%
STRATEGY INC0.99%1.41% BOEING COMPANY (THE)1.59%1.17%
FLAGSTAR BANK NA1.70%1.97% APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT INC2.06%1.64%
BABCOCK & WILCOX ENTERPRISES INC1.30%1.54% ANNALY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC0.39%0.00%
BRIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL INC0.50%0.69% ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD0.50%0.13%
BRIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL INC0.32%0.49% VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP0.44%0.11%

New: ORACLE CORP (1.22%), FIRST HORIZON CORP (0.75%), NEXTERA ENERGY CAPITAL HOLDINGS INC (0.69%), CION INVESTMENT CORP (0.46%), RBC BlueBay US Government Money Market Fund (0.28%), GOLDMAN SACHS FIN GOV 465 (0.28%). Gone: ELLINGTON FINANCIAL (0.53%), SCE TRUST V (0.04%), REGIONS FINANCIAL CORP (0.02%), GLADSTONE INVESTMENT COR (0.02%), EAGLE PT INCOME CO INC (0.02%), ARMADA HOFFLER PROPERTIE (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
preferred equity EP97.86%
debt DBT1.26%
equity EC0.79%
short-term investment STIV0.09%

99.4% of PFFA 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, preferred equity funds

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Every measured preferred equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of PFFA (100.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
PFXF VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF 115 36.3 42.43% 2026-06-30
PGF Invesco Financial Preferred ETF 100 78.7 20.85% 2026-07-31
PFFD Global X U.S. Preferred ETF 224 107.3 21.29% 2026-05-31
PSK State Street(R) SPDR(R) ICE Preferred Securities ETF 163 116.3 16.02% 2026-06-30
PFF iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF 456 134.5 19.64% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine PFFA

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