First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II declares $0.097 dividend
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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 April 23, 2026, FCT stock price declined to $9.79 with 23,353 million shares trading.
FCT has a beta of 0.22, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FCT has a correlation of 0.13 to the broad based SPY ETF.
FCT has a market cap of $254.38 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 +12.9% while the SPY ETF gained +35.8%. FCT has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +0.2% and +2.4%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.1% and +4.8%, respectively.
FCT support price is $9.74 and resistance is $9.86 (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.
