Peer Group
| # | Name | Ticker | AUM |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF | PFF | $12.3B |
| 2 | Cohen & Steers Preferred Securities & Income Fund | CPXAX | $7.1B |
| 3 | Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund | NPSCX | $6B |
| 4 | First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF | FPE | $6B |
| 5 | Spectrum Preferred and Capital Securities Income Fund | PPSIX | $5.2B |
| 6 | Invesco Preferred ETF | PGX | $3.6B |
| 7 | Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF | VRP | $3B |
| 8 | Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund | JPC | $2.9B |
| 9 | Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF | PFFA | $2.4B |
| 10 | VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF | PFXF | $2.4B |
| Name | Cumulative Return | Ann. Return | Ann. Vol | Sharpe | Max DD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peer Group | -2.9% | -2.9% | 4.5% | -1.47 | -5.0% |
Peer composites equal-weight the group's share-class representatives' daily returns, including delisted members' alive-era history via the frozen year-end snapshots — though our coverage of closed funds is partial, so composite levels at older dates may run slightly high. Membership is the latest known — style migrators carry their full history. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peer Group | -2.6% | -0.5% | -0.6% | -4.1% | -4.8% | -2.1% | -2.9% | 1.6% | 9.6% | 1.5% | 8.1% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.
Name | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peer Group | 35.5%* | 15.1% | 0.7% | -16.7% | 17.9% | 24.6% | 21.5% | 8.9% | -7.9% | 8.3% | 28.4% | 9.7% | 18.7% | 5.1% | -5.9% | 22.5% | -16.6% | -30.6% | 64.2% | 21.0% | 9.3% | 18.9% | -1.5% | 16.3% | 5.0% | 8.1% | 12.4% | -6.5% | 24.1% | 8.5% | 6.9% | -16.9% | 7.9% | 12.3% | 8.2% | -2.6% |
* 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Global Dev Peer Group | -5.7%* | 0.31** | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | -0.02 | 0.00 | 0.68 | 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.
Preferred Stock Composite
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Every figure on this card is an equal-weight aggregate over the composite's share-class-deduped members: the median across the members reporting each field, blank where too few of them do. Three rows depart from that, because a median of them would say nothing: Inception is the group's OLDEST member — where its combined history can start; 3Y Flow is the group's own net flow over its own assets, not the middle member's rate; and Type, Asset Class and Region are compositions by member count. Holdings is the merged look-through book — distinct positions across the members' holdings.
Not scored — PEER:Preferred Stock’s holdings don’t clear the coverage floor for composite factor scores.
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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); percentile overlays are off (Peer Universe: None). Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. The long book is 117% of net assets, so shares are of the long book rather than of the fund - it is levered by 17%. Cash & Short-Term includes 0.5% of net assets the filing does not itemise. The short book is stated under the card and never netted into a slice: a pie cannot draw a negative, and folding a hedge into the class it offsets would make it look like more of that class. 3.7% of this book sits in funds we hold no holdings file for and is drawn as its own slice. Other is everything we could not name as an asset class: holdings the filing itself labels as other, derivative positions at the market value the filing reports rather than at notional, and funds held inside this fund whose own holdings we could not read.
Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
10 of 53 funds (top 10 shown, create for all 53)
| # | Name | Ticker | Weight % | AUM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF | PFF | 1.89 | $12.3B |
| 2 | Cohen & Steers Preferred Securities & Income Fund | CPXAX | 1.89 | $7.1B |
| 3 | Nuveen Preferred Securities and Income Fund | NPSCX | 1.89 | $6B |
| 4 | First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF | FPE | 1.89 | $6B |
| 5 | Spectrum Preferred and Capital Securities Income Fund | PPSIX | 1.89 | $5.2B |
| 6 | Invesco Preferred ETF | PGX | 1.89 | $3.6B |
| 7 | Invesco Variable Rate Preferred ETF | VRP | 1.89 | $3B |
| 8 | Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund | JPC | 1.89 | $2.9B |
| 9 | Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF | PFFA | 1.89 | $2.4B |
| 10 | VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF | PFXF | 1.89 | $2.4B |
The funds this composite is made of, each counting once (100 ÷ 10 — the same equal weighting behind its returns and its median exposures), listed largest first by assets. Tick Look-Through to expand them into the stocks they hold. Holdings Concentration beside this card always describes that looked-through book, not this list — it is a statement about exposure, not about the roster. 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; percentile overlays are off (Peer Universe: None). Every row on this card describes the composite's merged look-through book — the stocks its members hold — not the list of member funds, whatever the Holdings card is showing.
Metric | Preferred Stock Composite 54 funds | Peer Asset Class 2,838 funds |
|---|---|---|
YTD Return | -1.32% | -2.33%59 |
1Y Return | -1.24% | -1.51%53 |
3Y Return (Ann.) | 8.98% | 4.80%92 |
5Y Return (Ann.) | 0.88% | 0.27%57 |
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper | 0.56% | 0.52%47 |
Preferred Stock Composite is a Sparkline peer composite — its members are the share-class representatives of the funds in the group (one class per fund: the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class). This card ranks it against its asset class, Fixed Income, which is the only pool a composite has: there is no peer group of peer groups, and the region tier is a fund-level grouping. Typical Member rows are medians across those representatives — the value is the group’s median, and the percentile is the median of the members’ own ranks within Fixed Income, so both describe the middle fund rather than the group as a whole. Quartile chips fill the layer the rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). A dash is a window the group is younger than, or one too few Fixed Income funds have a history for to rank against — hover it for which.