First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF
FPE NYSE Arca
First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF is an actively managed fund that attempts to generate income by investing globally in preferred equities and income producing debt across the market cap spectrum.
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- Fund size
- 5.41B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.85% per year
- Dividend yield
- 4.82% Monthly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 4.4% Above Average
- Beta
- 0.22 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 17.0118.01
How FPE has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 12Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, FPE returned +2.8% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +4.7 pts to the price move.
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 ±4% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −5.6% on Oct 7, 2026 — 229 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 4% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.22 means FPE 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
Downtrend- 12-day average17.11 −0.6%
- 26-day average17.22 −1.2%
- 50-day average17.34 −1.9%
- 200-day average17.46 −2.6%
The price is above 0 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is below the 200-day, a sign of a falling longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OversoldRSI 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
Global Markets · Developed Markets — tracking the Not Applicable.
- Assets under management5.41BUSD
- Expense ratio0.85%per year
- Holdings271
- Risk score2.1Low
Launched February 2013. Listed options available. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 48 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.82
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Last paid
- Sep 24, 2026
Last 12 months
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About First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF
First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF is an actively managed fund that attempts to generate income by investing globally in preferred equities and income producing debt across the market cap spectrum.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 271 holdings
- Ticker
- FPE
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US33739E1082
- CUSIP
- 33739E108
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Global Markets
- Industry
- Developed Markets
- Benchmark
- Not Applicable
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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