Latest FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP Stock Portfolio

FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP Performance:

2025 Q4: -0.02%YTD: 10.27%2024: 17.21%

Performance for 2025 Q4 is -0.02%, and YTD is 10.27%, and 2024 is 17.21%.

About FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP and 13F Hedge Fund Stock Holdings

FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP is a hedge fund based in Mclean, VA. On 2026-02-13, the fund reported it's updated stock portfolio. In the 13F Holdings report, FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP reported an equity portfolio of $137.6 Billions as of 31 Dec, 2025.

The top stock holdings of FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP are CSCO, NVDA, MSFT. The fund has invested 1.4% of it's portfolio in CISCO SYS INC and 1.3% of portfolio in NVIDIA CORPORATION.

The fund managers got completely rid off FIRST TR EXCHANGE TRADED FD (CARZ), FIRST TR EXCHANGE-TRADED FD (BGLD) and UNILEVER PLC (UL) stocks. They significantly reduced their stock positions in CYBERARK SOFTWARE LTD (CYBR), INNOSPEC INC (IOSP) and SYNOVUS FINL CORP (SNV). FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP opened new stock positions in FIRST TR EXCHANGE-TRADED FD (BGLD), FIRST TR EXCHANGE TRADED FD (AIRR) and TOTALENERGIES SE. The fund showed a lot of confidence in some stocks as they added substantially to MICROVAST HOLDINGS INC (MVST), BIO RAD LABS INC (BIO) and ACADIAN ASSET MANAGEMENT INC (BSIG).

FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP Annual Return Estimates Vs S&P 500

Our best estimate is that FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP made a return of -0.02% in the last quarter. In trailing 12 months, it's portfolio return was 10.27%.

Performance
S&P 500

New Buys

Ticker	$ Bought
first tr exchange-traded fd	795,568,000
first tr exchange traded fd	735,882,000

New stocks bought by FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP

Additions

Ticker	% Inc.
mdu res group inc	2,442
ftai aviation ltd	1,375
live nation entertainment in	653
expedia group inc	594
3m co	467
oshkosh corp	408
moodys corp	315
public storage oper co	287

Additions to existing portfolio by FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP

Reductions

Ticker	% Reduced
arch cap group ltd	-77.92
northern tr corp	-55.06
gilead sciences inc	-53.19
electronic arts inc	-50.7
autodesk inc	-49.24
otter tail corp	-44.65
csx corp	-41.01
aflac inc	-39.96

FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP reduced stake in above stock

Sold off

None of the stocks were completely sold off by FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP

Sector Distribution

FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP has about 26.3% of it's holdings in Technology sector.

Sector	%
Technology	26.3
Industrials	16
Financial Services	13.7
Others	12.4
Consumer Cyclical	6.8
Healthcare	6.2
Communication Services	5.3
Consumer Defensive	4
Utilities	3.3
Energy	3.2
Basic Materials	1.5
Real Estate	1.1

Market Cap. Distribution

FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP has about 72% of it's portfolio invested in the large-cap and mega-cap stocks.

Category	%
LARGE-CAP	50.7
MEGA-CAP	21.3
MID-CAP	13.9
UNALLOCATED	12.4
SMALL-CAP	1.6

Stocks belong to which Index?

About 69.1% of the stocks held by FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP either belong to S&P 500 or RUSSELL 2000 index.

Index	%
S&P 500	58.1
Others	30.9
RUSSELL 2000	11

Top 5 Winners (%)		%
	resolute hldgs mgmt inc	168.9 %
LITE	lumentum hldgs inc	120.1 %
PRAX	praxis precision medicines i	119.3 %
SSP	scripps e w co ohio	103.1 %
	sandisk corp	95.7 %

Top 5 Winners ($)		$
GOOG	alphabet inc	363.2 M
CSCO	cisco sys inc	237.1 M
LRCX	lam research corp	194.0 M
AMAT	applied matls inc	159.8 M
MU	micron technology inc	153.3 M

Top 5 Losers (%)		%
FORD	forward inds inc n y	-72.7 %
ASPN	aspen aerogels inc	-59.3 %
CORT	corcept therapeutics inc	-57.0 %
TPL	texas pacific land corporati	-56.0 %
SMR	nuscale pwr corp	-55.0 %

Top 5 Losers ($)		$
ORCL	oracle corp	-232.2 M
NFLX	netflix inc	-196.7 M
ZS	zscaler inc	-179.8 M
META	meta platforms inc	-159.1 M
FFIV	f5 inc	-149.0 M

FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP Holdings Map

This heatmap illustrates the top 50 positions within the fund's portfolio.

Current Stock Holdings of FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP

FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP has 2614 stocks in it's portfolio. About 10.7% of the portfolio is in top 10 stocks. ORCL proved to be the most loss making stock for the portfolio. GOOG was the most profitable stock for FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP last quarter.

Last Reported on: 13 Feb, 2026

Ticker	Namesorted ascending	% Portfolio	Shares Held	$ Value	Type	% Change
A	agilent technologies inc	0.07	695,957	94,698,900	added	4.4

AAON	aaon inc	0.09	1,649,110	125,745,000	reduced	-14.71

AAPL	apple inc	0.85	4,313,070	1,172,550,000	added	1.87

ABBV	abbvie inc	0.22	1,336,500	305,377,000	added	170

ABC	cencora inc	0.16	652,069	220,236,000	reduced	-8.61

ABNB	airbnb inc	0.18	1,820,960	247,141,000	reduced	-9.91

ABT	abbott labs	0.41	4,543,650	569,274,000	added	17.28

ACAD	acadia pharmaceuticals inc	0.04	2,270,030	60,632,600	added	16.82

ACGL	arch cap group ltd	0.04	625,986	60,044,600	reduced	-77.92

ACM	aecom	0.28	4,080,140	388,960,000	reduced	-3.23

ACN	accenture plc ireland	0.31	1,582,840	424,678,000	reduced	-22.48

ADBE	adobe inc	0.14	569,804	199,426,000	reduced	-12.41

ADI	analog devices inc	0.20	1,001,530	271,615,000	added	6.94

ADP	automatic data processing in	0.42	2,248,500	578,383,000	added	6.66

ADSK	autodesk inc	0.10	462,272	136,837,000	reduced	-49.24

AEE	ameren corp	0.07	913,629	91,235,000	reduced	-1.85

AEP	american elec pwr co inc	0.15	1,756,300	202,519,000	reduced	-10.88

AES	aes corp	0.06	5,375,830	77,089,400	reduced	-24.52

AFL	aflac inc	0.10	1,216,060	134,095,000	reduced	-39.96

AGO	assured guaranty ltd	0.10	1,464,220	131,589,000	added	9.84