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Fund · First Trust Smith Unconstrained Bond ETF · measured from SEC filings

UCON holdings

UCON reports 505 holdings and behaves like 214.4 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31
505 Positions reported
214.4 Effective holdings
2.4× Concentration multiple
13.79% 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: 1.13% at a quoted market price (level 1), 12 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

UCON's largest investment is T 3.375 02/29/28 at 2.33% of net assets. T 4.625 11/15/45 and T 4.75 02/15/56 follow; the three together are 6.57%. Ten companies are 13.79% of the fund; the other 495 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, UCON behaves like 214.4 holdings against a median of 236.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings UCON has held roughly steady since 2019-11-29 (206.1 then, 214.4 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 120 positions were added and 70 dropped; 29.9% of the weight moved.

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 2019-11-29 and 2026-05-31, UCON went from behaving like 206.1 equally weighted positions to 214.4 — 4% more, while its top ten went from 13.73% to 13.79% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 505 214.4 13.79% 2.34%
2026-02-28 456 150.2 20.11% 2.73%
2025-11-30 415 93.4 26.46% 5.23%
2025-08-31 402 69.2 31.05% 6.38%
2025-05-31 372 36.1 44.68% 8.76%
2025-02-28 1,084 45.8 27.46% 11.96%
2024-11-30 1,069 29.3 36.22% 12.84%
2024-08-31 1,040 95.2 25.51% 6.31%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-29)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 983 107.4 24.91% 4.14%
2024-02-29 999 141.3 21.29% 3.03%
2023-11-30 888 86.2 29.63% 5.13%
2023-08-31 916 96.6 27.15% 5.26%
2023-05-31 923 85.7 28.6% 6.37%
2023-02-28 919 110.9 26.06% 3.43%
2022-11-30 * 920 88 29.49% 5.21%
2022-08-31 924 94.6 25.29% 6.61%
2022-05-31 918 76.3 27.96% 7.67%
2022-02-28 899 71.1 29.22% 8.35%
2021-11-30 784 98.3 27% 4.59%
2021-08-31 699 63.2 35.58% 6.43%
2021-05-28 619 60.6 34.43% 6.3%
2021-02-26 541 66.2 29.03% 8.83%
2020-11-30 519 131.7 22.81% 2.71%
2020-08-31 508 126.6 22.02% 3.6%
2020-05-29 547 170.5 15.32% 3.78%
2020-02-28 560 184.7 15.49% 3.04%
2019-11-29 534 206.1 13.73% 2.6%

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 2026-05-31

The 15 largest of 505 positions in UCON's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: UCON.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT2.34%2.3%
2UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT2.14%4.5%
3UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT2.13%6.6%
4UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.70%8.3%
5UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.19%9.5%
6UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.04%10.6%
7Federal National Mortgage Association0.96%11.5%
8BOEING COMPANY (THE)0.81%12.3%
9FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION0.74%13.1%
10ALBERTSONS COMPANIES INC / SAFEWAY INC / NEW ALBERTSONS LP / ALBERTSONS LLC0.72%13.8%
11JANE STREET GROUP LLC / JSG FINANCE INC0.68%14.5%
12Federal National Mortgage Association0.66%15.1%
13DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS0.65%15.8%
14AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS LLC0.63%16.4%
15GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC0.62%17.0%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

Share of UCON'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 92.66%
Canada 2.42%
Bermuda° 1.23%
Switzerland 0.90%
Cayman Islands° 0.72%
Saudi Arabia 0.49%
Denmark 0.49%
Ireland° 0.48%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

5.3%Last twelve months filed
25%Whole series, compounded
3.1%Best month
-5.7%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.12 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: UCON.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

453 positions became 503: 120 added (27.3% of the fund at the later date), 70 dropped (23.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 29.9%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of UCON compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
MATCH GROUP HOLDINGS II LLC0.10%0.36% UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT1.50%0.01%
ALLISON TRANSMISSION INC0.10%0.34% UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT2.17%1.04%
AS MILEAGE PLAN IP LTD0.24%0.46% DREYFUS GOVERNMENT CASH MANAGEMENT FUNDS1.48%0.65%
PARAMOUNT GLOBAL0.22%0.38% FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP0.79%0.48%
AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY INC0.32%0.47% GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY0.45%0.19%
AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS LLC0.48%0.63% FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY LLC0.64%0.38%

New: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (2.34%), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (2.13%), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (1.70%), UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT (1.19%), Federal National Mortgage Association (0.96%), AUGUSTA SPINCO CORP (0.48%). Gone: United States Treasury Notes (2.73%), United States Treasury Notes (2.53%), United States Treasury Notes (2.04%), United States Treasury Notes (1.99%), United States Treasury Notes (1.73%), United States Treasury Notes (1.73%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT82.79%
mortgage-backed ABS-MBS9.18%
ABS-O ABS-O4.62%
loan LON2.18%
short-term investment STIV0.65%
preferred equity EP0.58%

1.1% of UCON is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.0% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. 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 UCON (214.4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
ICVT iShares Convertible Bond ETF 376 195.5 12.95% 2026-07-31
HYLS First Trust Tactical High Yield ETF 333 195.5 11.98% 2026-07-31
BGRN iShares USD Green Bond ETF 317 198 12.76% 2026-07-31
CGSD Capital Group Short Duration Income ETF 1,063 198.7 12.75% 2026-06-30
GSST Goldman Sachs Ultra Short Bond ETF 391 207.8 10% 2026-05-31
VNLA Janus Henderson Short Duration Income ETF 363 217.8 10.59% 2026-07-31
TOTR T. Rowe Price Total Return ETF 1,291 224 16.03% 2026-05-31
MINO PIMCO Municipal Income Opportunities Active Exchange-Traded Fund 517 224.4 11.94% 2026-06-30
FSIG First Trust Limited Duration Investment Grade Corporate ETF 314 224.9 9.94% 2026-07-31
DFSB Dimensional Global Sustainability Fixed Income ETF 740 228.5 13.29% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine UCON

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