14-Jul-2026
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The investment objective of the First Trust Smith Opportunistic Fixed Income ETF is to seek to maximize long-term total return. Under normal market conditions, the Fund pursues its objective by investing at least 80% of its net assets in fixed income securities. The Fund's investments principally include securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies, instrumentalities or U.S. government-sponsored entities Treasury Inflation Protected Securities ("TIPS") residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities asset-backed securities U.S. corporate bonds fixed income securities issued by non-U.S. corporations and governments, including issuers with significant ties to emerging market countries bank loans, including first lien senior secured floating rate bank loans and covenant lite loans municipal bonds collateralized loan obligations ("CLOs") Rule 144A securities and other debt securities bearing fixed, floating or variable interest rates of any maturity. The Fund's sub-advisor, Smith Capital Investors, LLC ("Smith Capital" or the "Sub-Advisor"), attempts to focus the Fund's portfolio holdings in areas of the fixed income market (based on quality, sector, coupon or maturity) that the Sub-Advisor believes to be relatively attractive.
First Trust Smith Opportunistic Fixed Income ETF trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol FIXD.
As of July 14, 2026, FIXD stock price climbed to $43.28 with 310,220 million shares trading.
FIXD has a beta of 0.11, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FIXD has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.
FIXD has a market cap of $3.26 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, FIXD traded as high as $46.80 and as low as $39.42.
FIXD has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +4.3% while the SPY ETF gained +21.8%. FIXD has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -0.4% and -1.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned +9.9% and +1.5%, respectively.
FIXD support price is $42.96 and resistance is $43.39 (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 FIXD shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
