First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF
The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in preferred securities and income-producing debt securities, including those traded over-the-counter or listed on an exchange. It employs an active management strategy focusing on credit fundamentals, relative value, and technical aspects, with a concentration of at least 25% in the financial sector. The portfolio maintains an average duration of three to 12 years and invests at least 60% in investment-grade securities, with up to 40% in high-yield securities.
| Name | Cumulative Return | Ann. Return | Ann. Vol | Sharpe | Max DD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF | -1.2% | -1.2% | 4.2% | -1.19 | -4.2% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.
Name | YTD | 1D | 5D | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y | 2Y | 3Y | 5Y | MAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF | -2.5% | -0.6% | -0.2% | -3.0% | -3.6% | -1.7% | -1.2% | 2.8% | 9.0% | 2.1% | 4.5% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.
Name | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF | -6.5%* | 11.7% | 6.1% | 6.4% | 11.3% | -5.0% | 18.1% | 6.0% | 5.1% | -12.7% | 6.8% | 11.2% | 9.2% | -2.5% |
* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.
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Name | Ann. α | β MKT | β SMB | β HML | β RMW | β CMA | β UMD | β iHML | R² | Obs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FPEGlobal Dev First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF | -4.4% | 0.29** | -0.05 | -0.01 | 0.03 | 0.04 | -0.03* | -0.02 | 0.58 | 226 |
ETF performance based on market prices. Global Dev factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). Fama-French publishes daily factors for developed markets only, so Dev Ex-US is developed markets excluding the US and Global Dev is developed markets including it; emerging markets, a small share of world market capitalization, are not covered by the source data. From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.
The fund invests at least 80% of net assets in preferred securities and income-producing debt securities, including those traded over-the-counter or listed on an exchange. It employs an active management strategy focusing on credit fundamentals, relative value, and technical aspects, with a concentration of at least 25% in the financial sector. The portfolio maintains an average duration of three to 12 years and invests at least 60% in investment-grade securities, with up to 40% in high-yield securities.
MethodologyExpense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (1/9/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.
None of the selected metrics are scored for FPE — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).
Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.
Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. Cash & Short-Term includes 1.1% of net assets the filing does not itemise.
Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
259 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings)
| # | Name | Ticker | Weight % | Sector | Industry | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bank OF America | BAC | 2.52 | Financials | Multinational Banks | USA |
| 2 | Wells Fargo & Company | WFC | 2.08 | Financials | Multinational Banks | USA |
| 3 | Barclays | BARC | 1.67 | Financials | Multinational Banks | GBR |
| 4 | JP Morgan Chase & Company | - | 1.35 | - | - | USA |
| 5 | Nextera Energy Capital Holdings | - | 1.33 | - | - | USA |
| 6 | BNP Paribas | BNP | 1.26 | Financials | Nat'l & Regional Banks | FRA |
| 7 | Xcel Energy | XEL | 1.23 | Utilities | Regulated Utilities | USA |
| 8 | Credit Agricole | ACA | 1.21 | Financials | Nat'l & Regional Banks | FRA |
| 9 | Citigroup | C | 1.20 | Financials | Multinational Banks | USA |
| 10 | Hartford Insurance Group Inc (the) | HIG | 1.09 | Financials | Insurance | USA |
Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.
Metric | FPE First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF | Peer Group 54 funds | Peer Asset Class 2,838 funds |
|---|---|---|---|
YTD Return | -2.48% | -1.32%41 | -2.33%48 |
1Y Return | -1.24% | -1.24%49 | -1.51%53 |
3Y Return (Ann.) | 8.97% | 8.98%47 | 4.80%92 |
5Y Return (Ann.) | 2.13% | 0.88%70 | 0.27%72 |
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper | 0.83% | 0.56%25 | 0.52%24 |
Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (87 share classes across 54 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.
Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.
| Fund | Peer Group | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FPEI First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 67 | - | - | - | - |
| 2 | FPF First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 54 | - | - | - | - |
| 3 | FPEIX First Trust Preferred Securities and Income Fund Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 54 | - | - | - | - |
| 4 | FPFD Fidelity Preferred Securities and Income ETF Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 50 | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | PGX Invesco Preferred ETF Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 48 | - | - | - | - |
| 6 | PSK State Street(R) SPDR(R) ICE Preferred Securities ETF Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 48 | - | - | - | - |
| 7 | JHPI John Hancock Preferred Income ETF Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 48 | - | - | - | - |
| 8 | PGF Invesco Financial Preferred ETF Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 33 | - | - | - | - |
| 9 | PFF iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 33 | - | - | - | - |
| 10 | NPFD Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred & Income Fund Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 33 | - | - | - | - |
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MethodologyRows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days). Fama-French Similarity = 1/(1+d), where d is the Euclidean distance between factor betas (market, size, value, profitability, investment, momentum, intangible value) from up to three years of daily returns (min 378 daily observations and regression R² of at least 0.25); 1.00 = identical loadings.