First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII - FT Vest Laddered U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF (BFEW) Stock

BFEW

First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII - FT Vest Laddered U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF BFEW · CBOE

$21.92 +0.25% (+$0.06)

Summary

First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII - FT Vest Laddered U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by First Trust. Positions inside: 5. The ten largest make up 100% of the fund.

Yearly costs: 0.10%
Fund size: $3.25M
Positions: 5
Running since: 2026

What speaks for it

Costs of 0.10% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.75%).

What to watch

The ten largest positions make up 100% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
100% of the fund is in one country (United States).
A young fund: it has been running only since 2026.
A small fund with $3.25M under management; small funds get closed more often.
It trades little: only about $30.8K changes hands a day.

A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.

1 month: +2.0%
3 months: +3.1%

What is inside?

Concentrated

1
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FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF - September RSSE 25%
2
RS
FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF - March RSMR 25%
3
RS
FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF - June RSJN 25%
4
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First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII - FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF - December RSDE 25%
5 US Dollar 0.01%

Positions in the fund: 5. The ten largest make up 100% of it.

Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.

Where is it spread?

One country

By country

United States 100%
Other countries 0.01%

Largest country: United States (100%).

What does it cost me?

Cheap

This fund 0.10%

Middle of comparable ETFs 0.75%

A year from $10,000: $10.00
Over 20 years: $501

From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $10.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $501.

How has it done?

Deepest drop: -2.7%

It has traded for less than a year, too short to judge.

Does it pay dividends?

We have no record of payments from this fund.

Is it easy to buy and sell?

It trades little

Traded a day: $30.8K
Shares a day: 1.4K

On an average day about $30.8K of the fund changes hands.

About the fund

BFEW provides exposure to US large-cap equities through a portfolio of four underlying buffer ETFs, each linked to the price return of the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (RSP). These underlying funds use options to define one-year outcome periods with capped upside and a buffer against the first 10% of losses. Rather than allocating to a single outcome period, BFEW invests across multiple funds with staggered reset dates, creating a laddered structure that spreads exposure over time. The portfolio is generally equally weighted across the underlying ETFs and rebalanced periodically. Because each underlying ETF may be at a different point in its outcome period, the funds overall return profile can vary and may not fully capture either the buffers or the upside caps of any single fund. The strategy reflects a structured approach to managing timing risk within buffered equity exposure.

Issuer: First Trust
Asset class: Multi-Asset
Domicile: United States
Launched: Apr 7, 2026
Net asset value per share: $21.69

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