FCT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (First Trust Senior Fr II C | NYSE:FCT)

The First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's primary investment objective is to seek a high level of current income. As a secondary objective, the Fund will attempt to preserve capital. The Fund will pursue these objectives through investment in a portfolio of senior secured floating rate corporate loans. It is anticipated that at least 80% of the Fund's managed assets will be invested in lower grade debt instruments.

First Trust Senior Fr II C trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol FCT.

As of February 6, 2026, FCT stock price declined to $9.87 with 55,923 million shares trading.

FCT has a beta of 0.44, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FCT has a correlation of 0.39 to the broad based SPY ETF.

FCT has a market cap of $256.46 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, FCT traded as high as $10.93 and as low as $8.61.

FCT has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +6.2% while the SPY ETF gained +15.1%. However, in the short term, FCT had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +6.1% vs +3.3% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, FCT shares have been beat by the market, returning -1.1% compared to an SPY return of +0.2%.

FCT support price is $9.85 and resistance is $9.93 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that FCT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.