GOCT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (FT Vest U.S. Equity Moderate Buffer ETF - October | BATS:GOCT)

The investment objective of the FT Vest U.S. Equity Moderate Buffer ETF - October (the "Fund") is to seek to provide investors with returns (before fees and expenses) that match the price return of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (the "Underlying ETF"), up to a predetermined upside cap of 15.50% while providing a buffer (before fees and expenses) against the first 15% of Underlying ETF losses, over the period from October 23, 2023 through October 18, 2024. Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest substantially all of its assets in FLexible EXchange Options ("FLEX Options") that reference the price performance of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (the "Underlying ETF").

FT Vest U.S. Equity Moderate Buffer ETF - October trades on the BATS stock market under the symbol GOCT.

As of March 4, 2025, GOCT stock price declined to $34.87 with 39,951 million shares trading.

GOCT has a beta of 0.27, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. GOCT has a correlation of 0.71 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GOCT has a market cap of $208.32 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

GOCT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +4.9%, while SPY returned +13.9%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in GOCT shares. However, GOCT has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning -1.6% and -2.7%, while SPY returned -4.2% and -5.4%, respectively. This indicates GOCT has been having a stronger performance recently.

GOCT support price is $34.87 and resistance is $35.19 (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 GOCT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.