PIMCO Preferred and Capital Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund
PRFD NYSE Arca
The fund considers issuers of any market capitalization and may allocate up to 50% of its assets in high-yield securities. Most preferred dividends are taxed at qualified dividend income (QDI) rates, which is considerably less than ordinary income tax rates. Preferred securities can have lower corr...
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- Dividend yield
- 5.59% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 3.6% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.12 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 48.6050.52
How PRFD 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, PRFD returned +5.4% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +5.6 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 −3.8% on Oct 5, 2026 — 223 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.12 means PRFD 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 average48.89 −0.2%
- 26-day average49.19 −0.8%
- 50-day average49.48 −1.3%
- 200-day average49.53 −1.5%
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.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 56 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 2.73
- Last paid
- Oct 1, 2026
Last 12 months
2.73 USD / shareWhere PRFD shows up
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About PIMCO Preferred and Capital Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund
The fund considers issuers of any market capitalization and may allocate up to 50% of its assets in high-yield securities. Most preferred dividends are taxed at qualified dividend income (QDI) rates, which is considerably less than ordinary income tax rates. Preferred securities can have lower correlations to traditional fixed income sectors (High Yield, Investment Grade, High Yield Municipals and Treasuries), given they tend to be lower in duration
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- PRFD
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US72201R6190
- CUSIP
- 72201R619
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Smart Betas
- Industry
- Target Duration (Term)
- Benchmark
- ICE BofA US All Capital Securities Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Oct 13, 2026
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