First Trust Advisors LP
In its 13F for Q1 2026 (holdings as of March 31, 2026, filed May 13, 2026), First Trust Advisors LP reported 2,599 stock positions worth $139.8 billion. Its top holding was Nvidia (NVDA) at 1.3% of the portfolio, followed by Cisco Systems (CSCO, 1.2%) and Broadcom (AVGO, 1.1%). Compared with Q4 2025, it opened 110 new positions, sold out of 133, added to 1,471 and reduced 1,002. The biggest buy was First Trust Nyse Arca Biotec (FBT, shares +49661%) and the biggest sale Infosys Ltd.-SP ADR (INFY, shares −70%).
- Most Recent 13F
- Q2 2026
- Location
- Wheaton, IL
- CIK
- 0001125816
- Portfolio Value
- $139.8B (Q1 2026)
- SEC Filing
- 0001445546-26-003611 ↗ filed May 13, 2026
Holdings Value
Holdings 2,599 stocks · $139.8B
| NVDA Nvidia Corp. | 1.30% | 10,426,580 | $1.8B | Add +5.4% |
| CSCO Cisco Systems Inc. | 1.23% | 22,139,390 | $1.7B | Reduce -14.5% |
| AVGO Broadcom Inc. | 1.15% | 5,175,717 | $1.6B | Add +8.8% |
| MSFT Microsoft Corp. | 1.09% | 4,131,891 | $1.5B | Add +13.8% |
| GOOGL Alphabet Inc. Class A | 1.01% | 4,897,499 | $1.4B | Add +1.0% |
| AAPL Apple Inc. | 0.95% | 5,213,875 | $1.3B | Add +20.9% |
| META Meta Platforms Inc. Class A | 0.77% | 1,883,184 | $1.1B | Reduce -12.4% |
| XOM Exxon Mobil Corp. | 0.75% | 6,182,355 | $1.0B | Reduce -6.0% |
| PANW Palo Alto Networks Inc. | 0.74% | 6,466,118 | $1.0B | Add +4.4% |
| CRWD CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. Class A | 0.72% | 2,584,496 | $1.0B | Add +16.6% |
| FTNT Fortinet Inc. | 0.67% | 11,506,173 | $940.3M | Add +45.5% |
| AMZN Amazon.com Inc. | 0.65% | 4,335,130 | $902.9M | Reduce -17.1% |
| LRCX Lam Research Corp. | 0.65% | 4,225,554 | $902.8M | Reduce -24.5% |
| CVX Chevron Corp. | 0.63% | 4,278,833 | $885.3M | Add +4.2% |
| AMAT Applied Materials Inc. | 0.63% | 2,589,257 | $885.0M | Reduce -14.1% |
| GEV GE Vernova Inc. | 0.60% | 958,698 | $836.8M | Add +14.8% |
| KLAC KLA Corp. | 0.60% | 565,850 | $833.2M | Reduce -13.5% |
| ETN Eaton Corp. PLC | 0.59% | 2,296,924 | $821.5M | Add +38.7% |
| IBM Intl Business Machines Corp. filed as INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHS | 0.58% | 3,330,537 | $807.3M | Add +50.5% |
| ROST Ross Stores Inc. | 0.57% | 3,694,269 | $800.3M | Add +6.1% |
| NET Cloudflare Inc. Class A | 0.56% | 3,774,026 | $778.7M | Reduce -6.1% |
| JCI Johnson Controls Internation | 0.54% | 5,761,677 | $754.5M | Add +28.3% |
| SNA Snap-on Inc. | 0.53% | 2,033,129 | $738.5M | Add +3.3% |
| VZ Verizon Communications Inc. | 0.53% | 14,707,701 | $738.3M | Reduce -6.2% |
| FBT First Trust Nyse Arca Biotec | 0.51% | 3,515,093 | $705.9M | Add +49660.7% |
| CRM Salesforce Inc. | 0.50% | 3,712,868 | $693.1M | Add +10.7% |
| ACN Accenture PLC Class A | 0.49% | 3,482,150 | $690.5M | Add +120.0% |
| COST Costco Wholesale Corp. | 0.49% | 692,252 | $689.8M | Add +18.0% |
| FXN First Trust Energy Alphadex | 0.48% | 29,937,777 | $672.4M | New |
| FTXR First Trust Nasdaq Transport | 0.48% | 17,561,577 | $669.3M | New |
| JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.47% | 2,236,537 | $657.9M | Add +16.4% |
| MISL First Trust Indxx Aero & Def | 0.47% | 14,692,155 | $656.9M | Reduce -21.0% |
| FTXL First Trust Nasdaq Semicondu | 0.46% | 4,392,245 | $647.7M | Reduce -22.7% |
| MPWR Monolithic Power Systems Inc. | 0.46% | 591,353 | $646.6M | Reduce -15.7% |
| MLI Mueller Industries Inc. | 0.44% | 5,594,217 | $619.8M | Add +0.6% |
| PEP Pepsico Inc. | 0.44% | 3,964,236 | $615.6M | Add +4.0% |
| BKNG Booking Holdings Inc. | 0.42% | 140,909 | $593.3M | Add +0.9% |
| BKR Baker Hughes Co. | 0.42% | 9,663,737 | $590.0M | Add +4.0% |
| PNC PNC Financial Services Group | 0.42% | 2,816,605 | $586.1M | Add +8.3% |
| FIX Comfort Systems USA Inc. | 0.41% | 415,886 | $573.5M | Reduce -13.7% |
| PFE Pfizer Inc. | 0.41% | 20,422,958 | $573.5M | Add +9.0% |
| V Visa Inc. Class A | 0.40% | 1,870,705 | $565.4M | Reduce -3.5% |
| PWR Quanta Services Inc. | 0.39% | 1,003,917 | $551.2M | Add +18.3% |
| GE General Electric filed as GE AEROSPACE | 0.39% | 1,940,719 | $550.7M | Add +0.4% |
| AKAM Akamai Technologies Inc. | 0.39% | 4,780,460 | $549.0M | Reduce -29.2% |
| VLTO Veralto Corp. | 0.39% | 6,150,388 | $543.8M | Add +31.5% |
| NFLX Netflix Inc. | 0.38% | 5,593,167 | $537.8M | Reduce -26.6% |
| MRK Merck & Co. Inc. | 0.38% | 4,465,569 | $537.2M | Reduce -3.5% |
| ORCL Oracle Corp. | 0.38% | 3,633,070 | $534.5M | Add +23.3% |
| ANET Arista Networks Inc. | 0.38% | 4,328,274 | $531.4M | Add +13.8% |
| CB Chubb Ltd. | 0.37% | 1,605,984 | $523.4M | Add +5.3% |
| JNJ Johnson & Johnson | 0.37% | 2,108,927 | $515.5M | Add +1.6% |
| QCOM Qualcomm Inc. | 0.37% | 3,998,634 | $514.9M | Add +2.3% |
| BNY Bank of New York Mellon Corp. filed as BANK NEW YORK MELLON CORP | 0.37% | 4,310,788 | $511.4M | Reduce -1.9% |
| ADP Automatic Data Processing | 0.36% | 2,497,861 | $507.5M | Add +11.1% |
| PHM Pultegroup Inc. | 0.36% | 4,314,501 | $507.4M | Add +7.8% |
| TXN Texas Instruments Inc. | 0.36% | 2,592,788 | $503.4M | Add +1.8% |
| EOG EOG Resources Inc. | 0.36% | 3,446,002 | $498.2M | Add +15.7% |
| TRV The Travelers Cos Inc. | 0.36% | 1,705,401 | $497.4M | Add +7.3% |
| MA Mastercard Inc. Class A | 0.35% | 992,696 | $496.0M | Add +16.7% |
| ZS Zscaler Inc. | 0.35% | 3,518,678 | $493.6M | Add +36.2% |
| WSM Williams-Sonoma Inc. | 0.35% | 2,664,580 | $485.8M | Add +9.2% |
| BAC Bank of America Corp. filed as BANK AMERICA CORP | 0.35% | 9,952,583 | $485.2M | Add +82.5% |
| HIG Hartford Insurance Group Inc. | 0.33% | 3,461,607 | $468.1M | Add +5.8% |
| DOV Dover Corp. | 0.33% | 2,241,753 | $467.3M | Reduce -10.7% |
| TSLA Tesla Inc. | 0.33% | 1,252,229 | $465.5M | Add +33.2% |
| EME Emcor Group Inc. | 0.33% | 630,406 | $465.4M | Add +7.3% |
| ALL Allstate Corp. | 0.33% | 2,232,938 | $463.0M | Add +30.6% |
| MTZ Mastec Inc. | 0.32% | 1,411,584 | $454.2M | Add +7.6% |
| MO Altria Group Inc. | 0.32% | 6,713,303 | $443.0M | Add +0.6% |
| AMP Ameriprise Financial Inc. | 0.31% | 983,096 | $436.9M | Add +18.7% |
| GILD Gilead Sciences Inc. | 0.31% | 3,129,637 | $436.2M | Add +116.4% |
| DDOG Datadog Inc. Class A | 0.31% | 3,685,562 | $435.1M | Add +81.5% |
| AGX Argan Inc. | 0.31% | 791,353 | $431.0M | Add +32.1% |
| AXP American Express Co. | 0.31% | 1,421,221 | $429.9M | Add +11.0% |
| ABT Abbott Laboratories | 0.31% | 4,179,722 | $429.1M | Reduce -8.0% |
| FFIV F5 Inc. | 0.31% | 1,476,987 | $427.3M | Reduce -46.4% |
| USB US Bancorp | 0.30% | 8,118,845 | $422.3M | Add +39.9% |
| EWBC East West Bancorp Inc. | 0.30% | 3,918,515 | $418.3M | Reduce -15.2% |
| PCAR Paccar Inc. | 0.30% | 3,605,471 | $416.4M | Reduce -11.1% |
| PRIM Primoris Services Corp. | 0.30% | 2,886,163 | $412.8M | Add +47.4% |
| CTSH Cognizant Tech Solutions-A | 0.29% | 6,518,915 | $399.9M | Reduce -20.6% |
| CMCSA Comcast Corp. Class A | 0.28% | 13,592,149 | $390.2M | Add +4.9% |
| COKE Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc. | 0.28% | 2,017,368 | $386.8M | Reduce -1.0% |
| MU Micron Technology Inc. | 0.27% | 1,137,009 | $384.1M | Reduce -17.4% |
| NTAP Netapp Inc. | 0.27% | 3,658,066 | $374.5M | Add +127.0% |
| LMT Lockheed Martin Corp. | 0.26% | 604,946 | $365.6M | Add +99.5% |
| COP Conocophillips | 0.26% | 2,754,665 | $363.6M | Add +8.6% |
| SYF Synchrony Financial | 0.26% | 5,338,110 | $363.1M | Add +5.6% |
| STRL Sterling Infrastructure Inc. | 0.26% | 877,990 | $357.6M | Add +27.3% |
| UPS United Parcel Service Class B | 0.26% | 3,631,133 | $357.2M | Add +37.4% |
| RJF Raymond James Financial Inc. | 0.25% | 2,459,488 | $356.1M | Reduce -19.9% |
| HUBB Hubbell Inc. | 0.25% | 714,287 | $350.5M | Add +26.9% |
| STT State Street Corp. | 0.25% | 2,768,064 | $350.3M | Reduce -22.7% |
| AFL Aflac Inc. | 0.25% | 3,184,801 | $349.4M | Add +161.9% |
| RF Regions Financial Corp. | 0.25% | 13,358,969 | $348.9M | Add +75.7% |
| WMT Walmart Inc. | 0.25% | 2,797,281 | $347.6M | Reduce -3.9% |
| RMD Resmed Inc. | 0.25% | 1,537,825 | $345.2M | Add +1.3% |
| NOC Northrop Grumman Corp. | 0.25% | 505,987 | $345.2M | Reduce -3.4% |
| INGR Ingredion Inc. | 0.25% | 3,054,149 | $344.1M | Add +53.1% |
Other holdings (3): bonds, preferreds, convertibles and warrants · $186.1M (not counted above)
| Security | Class | Shares / Principal | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (WFC 7.5 PERP L) | PERP PFD CNV A | 158,555 | $183.1M | Reduce -0.1% |
| RLJ LODGING TRUST (RLJ 1.95 PERP A) | CUM CONV PFD A | 120,408 | $2.9M | Reduce -0.4% |
| M-TRON INDUSTRIES INC | RIGHT 04/15/2026 | 10,011 | $21K | Add +21.4% |
Total filed on the 13F, all lines: $140.0B.
Portfolio Sells Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
| INFY Infosys Ltd.-SP ADR | Reduce -69.9% | 0.17% | −0.59 |
| FXO First Trust Financial Alphad | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.56 |
| FXU First Trust Utilities Alphad | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.55 |
| FDN First Trust DJ Internet Ind | Reduce -99.2% | 0.00% | −0.55 |
| META Meta Platforms Inc. Class A | Reduce -12.4% | 0.77% | −0.26 |
| AMZN Amazon.com Inc. | Reduce -17.1% | 0.65% | −0.23 |
| CSCO Cisco Systems Inc. | Reduce -14.5% | 1.23% | −0.22 |
| RBRK Rubrik Inc. Class A | Reduce -30.7% | 0.17% | −0.22 |
| CTSH Cognizant Tech Solutions-A | Reduce -20.6% | 0.29% | −0.21 |
| FFIV F5 Inc. | Reduce -46.4% | 0.31% | −0.21 |
| GEN Gen Digital Inc. | Reduce -25.7% | 0.20% | −0.20 |
| LDOS Leidos Holdings Inc. | Reduce -41.9% | 0.18% | −0.18 |
| EXPD Expeditors Intl Wash Inc. | Reduce -90.5% | 0.02% | −0.18 |
| OTEX Open Text Corp. | Reduce -35.9% | 0.12% | −0.16 |
| BAH Booz Allen Hamilton Holdings | Reduce -45.1% | 0.15% | −0.15 |
| CMI Cummins Inc. | Reduce -74.0% | 0.05% | −0.15 |
| OKTA Okta Inc. | Reduce -30.4% | 0.24% | −0.14 |
| NFLX Netflix Inc. | Reduce -26.6% | 0.38% | −0.13 |
| MSI Motorola Solutions Inc. | Reduce -66.2% | 0.08% | −0.13 |
| MMM 3M Co. | Reduce -82.2% | 0.02% | −0.12 |
| DASH DoorDash Inc. Class A | Reduce -7.6% | 0.18% | −0.12 |
| LYV Live Nation Entertainment Inc. | Reduce -94.9% | 0.01% | −0.12 |
| PAYC Paycom Software Inc. | Reduce -47.0% | 0.08% | −0.12 |
| CHKP Check Point Software Tech | Reduce -9.3% | 0.25% | −0.11 |
| MISL First Trust Indxx Aero & Def | Reduce -21.0% | 0.47% | −0.11 |
| ABT Abbott Laboratories | Reduce -8.0% | 0.31% | −0.11 |
| RJF Raymond James Financial Inc. | Reduce -19.9% | 0.25% | −0.10 |
| LNC Lincoln National Corp. | Reduce -55.5% | 0.05% | −0.10 |
| EA Electronic Arts Inc. | Reduce -43.6% | 0.12% | −0.10 |
| PSA Public Storage | Reduce -74.0% | 0.04% | −0.10 |
| ACM Aecom | Reduce -25.8% | 0.18% | −0.10 |
| ZTS Zoetis Inc. | Reduce -63.9% | 0.05% | −0.10 |
| UNM Unum Group | Reduce -30.6% | 0.17% | −0.09 |
| GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C | Reduce -19.6% | 0.24% | −0.09 |
| V Visa Inc. Class A | Reduce -3.5% | 0.40% | −0.09 |
| STT State Street Corp. | Reduce -22.7% | 0.25% | −0.09 |
| EBAY eBay Inc. | Reduce -28.6% | 0.23% | −0.09 |
| CVLT Commvault Systems Inc. | Reduce -35.3% | 0.06% | −0.08 |
| CFLT Confluent Inc. Class A | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.08 |
| SNOW Snowflake Inc. | Reduce -13.2% | 0.11% | −0.08 |
| EWBC East West Bancorp Inc. | Reduce -15.2% | 0.30% | −0.08 |
| BLK BlackRock Inc. | Reduce -36.7% | 0.10% | −0.08 |
| FTXL First Trust Nasdaq Semicondu | Reduce -22.7% | 0.46% | −0.07 |
| MDB Mongodb Inc. | Reduce -17.4% | 0.06% | −0.07 |
| EQH Equitable Holdings Inc. | Reduce -96.1% | 0.00% | −0.07 |
| DHI D.R. Horton Inc. | Reduce -79.2% | 0.02% | −0.07 |
| QLYS Qualys Inc. | Reduce -27.4% | 0.06% | −0.07 |
| CADE Cadence Bank | Sold out | 0.00% | −0.07 |
| UNP Union Pacific Corp. | Reduce -40.1% | 0.10% | −0.06 |
| VRNS Varonis Systems Inc. | Reduce -36.7% | 0.04% | −0.06 |
Portfolio Buys Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
| FBT First Trust Nyse Arca Biotec | Add +49660.7% | 0.51% | +0.50 |
| FXN First Trust Energy Alphadex | New | 0.48% | +0.48 |
| FTXR First Trust Nasdaq Transport | New | 0.48% | +0.48 |
| FTNT Fortinet Inc. | Add +45.5% | 0.67% | +0.22 |
| ETN Eaton Corp. PLC | Add +38.7% | 0.59% | +0.20 |
| GEV GE Vernova Inc. | Add +14.8% | 0.60% | +0.20 |
| ACN Accenture PLC Class A | Add +120.0% | 0.49% | +0.18 |
| GILD Gilead Sciences Inc. | Add +116.4% | 0.31% | +0.18 |
| CVX Chevron Corp. | Add +4.2% | 0.63% | +0.18 |
| AGX Argan Inc. | Add +32.1% | 0.31% | +0.17 |
| LMT Lockheed Martin Corp. | Add +99.5% | 0.26% | +0.15 |
| DT Dynatrace Inc. | Add +706.8% | 0.18% | +0.15 |
| AFL Aflac Inc. | Add +161.9% | 0.25% | +0.15 |
| JCI Johnson Controls Internation | Add +28.3% | 0.54% | +0.15 |
| NTAP Netapp Inc. | Add +127.0% | 0.27% | +0.14 |
| ACGL Arch Capital Group Ltd. | Add +319.5% | 0.18% | +0.14 |
| TT Trane Technologies PLC | Add +536.6% | 0.16% | +0.14 |
| PPG PPG Industries Inc. | Add +321.4% | 0.17% | +0.13 |
| PWR Quanta Services Inc. | Add +18.3% | 0.39% | +0.13 |
| BAC Bank of America Corp. | Add +82.5% | 0.35% | +0.13 |
| EOG EOG Resources Inc. | Add +15.7% | 0.36% | +0.13 |
| HSY The Hershey Co. | Add +315.4% | 0.16% | +0.13 |
| COST Costco Wholesale Corp. | Add +18.0% | 0.49% | +0.13 |
| SPXC SPX Technologies Inc. | Add +181.4% | 0.20% | +0.12 |
| FSLY Fastly Inc. Class A | Add +100.5% | 0.15% | +0.12 |
| PRIM Primoris Services Corp. | Add +47.4% | 0.30% | +0.12 |
| MTZ Mastec Inc. | Add +7.6% | 0.32% | +0.12 |
| ROST Ross Stores Inc. | Add +6.1% | 0.57% | +0.12 |
| BKR Baker Hughes Co. | Add +4.0% | 0.42% | +0.11 |
| FROG Jfrog Ltd. | Add +85066.4% | 0.11% | +0.11 |
| DDOG Datadog Inc. Class A | Add +81.5% | 0.31% | +0.11 |
| STRL Sterling Infrastructure Inc. | Add +27.3% | 0.26% | +0.10 |
| NVR NVR Inc. | Add +879.9% | 0.12% | +0.10 |
| IBM Intl Business Machines Corp. | Add +50.5% | 0.58% | +0.10 |
| RF Regions Financial Corp. | Add +75.7% | 0.25% | +0.10 |
| AAPL Apple Inc. | Add +20.9% | 0.95% | +0.09 |
| ALSN Allison Transmission Holding | Add +85.2% | 0.17% | +0.09 |
| ADSK Autodesk Inc. | Add +137.7% | 0.19% | +0.09 |
| COP Conocophillips | Add +8.6% | 0.26% | +0.09 |
| INGR Ingredion Inc. | Add +53.1% | 0.25% | +0.09 |
| CINF Cincinnati Financial Corp. | Add +59.4% | 0.24% | +0.08 |
| APA Apa Corp. | Add +55.0% | 0.13% | +0.08 |
| USB US Bancorp | Add +39.9% | 0.30% | +0.08 |
| EXPE Expedia Group Inc. | Add +104.1% | 0.20% | +0.08 |
| REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | Add +68.6% | 0.19% | +0.08 |
| ALL Allstate Corp. | Add +30.6% | 0.33% | +0.07 |
| EME Emcor Group Inc. | Add +7.3% | 0.33% | +0.07 |
| PFE Pfizer Inc. | Add +9.0% | 0.41% | +0.07 |
| ESTC Elastic NV | Add +516.1% | 0.09% | +0.07 |
| R Ryder System Inc. | Add +81.5% | 0.15% | +0.07 |
Notes & Other Activity Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY (WFC 7.5 PERP L) | PERP PFD CNV A | Reduce -0.1% | 158,555 | $183.1M |
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP (BAC 7.25 PERP L) | 7.25%CNV PFD L | Sold out | 13,936 | $17.4Mbefore exit |
| RLJ LODGING TRUST (RLJ 1.95 PERP A) | CUM CONV PFD A | Reduce -0.4% | 120,408 | $2.9M |
| M-TRON INDUSTRIES INC | RIGHT 04/15/2026 | Add +21.4% | 10,011 | $21K |
Bonds, preferreds, convertibles and warrants; not part of the stock holdings or percentages above.
All Filings
| Quarter | Positions | 13F Reported Value | Top Holdings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 2,653 | $169.8B | CSCO, NVDA, AVGO, GOOGL, PANW |
| Q1 2026 | 2,599 | $139.8B | NVDA, CSCO, AVGO, MSFT, GOOGL |
| Q4 2025 | 2,621 | $137.4B | CSCO, NVDA, MSFT, AVGO, GOOGL |
| Q3 2025 | 2,562 | $134.1B | CSCO, AVGO, MSFT, META, NVDA |
| Q2 2025 | 2,583 | $124.1B | CSCO, MSFT, AVGO, META, AMZN |
| Q1 2025 | 2,529 | $112.6B | CSCO, MSFT, META, AVGO, AAPL |
| Q4 2024 | 2,549 | $113.1B | CSCO, AVGO, MSFT, AMZN, META |
| Q3 2024 | 2,352 | $104.7B | CSCO, AVGO, MSFT, META, AMZN |
| Q2 2024 | 2,307 | $97.8B | CSCO, AVGO, MSFT, AAPL, AMZN |
| Q1 2024 | 2,326 | $98.2B | CSCO, MSFT, AVGO, AMZN, FTXL |