How is First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF (FPEI) doing?

First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF is an exchange-traded fund. Here is how it has done against the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

market beat

Middling

First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF shares are down 4% over the past year, 17 points behind the S&P 500. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 35th percentile on market beat and the 89th on staying power. It appears on 1 of our dashboards.

$18.54−4% in a yearWorth $1.9B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

FPEI against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF −4%, the S&P 500 +16%.

FPEIS&P 500

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Thematic ETFs, 14 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Clean-energy, niche-theme and preferred-income ETFs.

FPEI, past year−4%7 of 14 in the group

Rest of the group+12%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF is −4% over the past year, against +12% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 7th of 14 in Thematic ETFs.

FPEIRest of the group

Best in the groupXP XP+99%EWZ iShares MSCI Brazil ETF+46%LIT Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF+17%

Worst in the groupMSOS AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF−20%INDA iShares MSCI India ETF−13%EPI WisdomTree India Earnings Fund ETF−11%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

Busier than usual First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF typically moves 0.4% in a day, busier than usual for it, and it swings less than 94% of large US funds.

Typical day0.4%about $0.08 a share

Its usual0.3%busier than usual, 1.3× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5000.3×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±0.8%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−6%now 5% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks20%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.2

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 0.30%

FPEI on our dashboards

Every question where First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with FPEI highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which ETFs hold up when the market falls? Funds and commodities	89Cushions	18 of 23	Worst share 81% · 2018 −4% · 2020 −28%

Go deeper on Stox

FPEI’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see FPEI’s full profile on Stox.

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