First Trust Low Duration Opportunities ETF
LMBS NASDAQ
The Fund seeks to generate current income with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will seek to achieve its investment objectives by investing at least 80% of its net assets in mortgage-related debt securities and other mortgage-related instrument...
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- Fund size
- 4.97B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.68% per year
- Dividend yield
- 4.16% Monthly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 2.1% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.05 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 47.8849.26
How LMBS has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, LMBS returned +6.5% with dividends reinvested — −37.7 pts behind its benchmark.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±2% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −2.0% on Sep 30, 2026 — 36 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, LMBS delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.05 means LMBS has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average48.74 +0.5%
- 26-day average48.68 +0.6%
- 50-day average48.73 +0.5%
- 200-day average48.60 +0.8%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OverboughtRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Mortgage-Backed Securities · Low Duration — tracking the Not Applicable.
- Assets under management4.97BUSD
- Expense ratio0.68%per year
- Holdings1,578
- Risk score3.3Low
Launched November 2014. Fund data as of Feb 27, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 42 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 2.04
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Last paid
- Oct 21, 2026
Last 12 months
2.04 USD / shareWhere LMBS shows up
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About First Trust Low Duration Opportunities ETF
The Fund seeks to generate current income with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will seek to achieve its investment objectives by investing at least 80% of its net assets in mortgage-related debt securities and other mortgage-related instruments.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 1,578 holdings
- Ticker
- LMBS
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US33739Q2003
- CUSIP
- 33739Q200
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Industry
- Low Duration
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Feb 27, 2020
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