PFF holdings and overlap
iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF (PFF) holds 203 positions in its iShares file of 2026-10-27. Its three largest are Strategy Inc preferred stock (MSTR.PFD) at 4.72%, Bank of America Corp preferred stock (BAC.PFD) at 4.61% and Alphabet Inc preferred stock (GOOGL.PFD) at 4.57%, and its ten largest make up 37.0% of the fund.
In its iShares file of 2026-10-27, PFF is 48.6% financials, 12.4% technology and 10.4% utilities by sector (no sector found for 7.5%), with none of it in mega-cap tech or in the ten largest US companies by market value.
What does PFF hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-27?
Strategy Inc preferred stock is 4.72% of PFF on its own, against a median largest position of 7.8% across the 4 Preferred Securities funds with a page here. PFF is the only fund with a page here that holds MSTR.PFD.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MSTR.PFD Strategy Inc preferred stock | 4.72% | |
| 2 | BAC.PFD Bank of America Corp preferred stock | 4.61% | |
| 3 | GOOGL.PFD Alphabet Inc preferred stock | 4.57% | |
| 4 | WFC.PFD Wells Fargo & Company Series L | 4.24% | |
| 5 | NEE.PFD Nextera Energy Inc preferred stock | 3.76% | |
| 6 | JPM.PFD JPMorgan Chase & Co preferred stock | 3.72% | |
| 7 | MS.PFD Morgan Stanley preferred stock | 3.63% | |
| 8 | BA.PFD Boeing Co preferred stock | 3.11% | |
| 9 | HPE.PFD Hewlett Packard Enterprise Conv PR | 2.36% | |
| 10 | SMCI.PFD Super Micro Computer Inc preferred stock | 2.27% | |
| 11 | SO.PFD Southern Company preferred stock | 2.09% | |
| 12 | ORCL.PFD Oracle Corporation preferred stock | 2.06% | |
| 13 | C.PFD Citigroup Capital Xiii preferred stock | 1.59% | |
| 14 | PSA.PFD Public Storage preferred stock | 1.54% | |
| 15 | KKR.PFD KKR & Co Inc preferred stock | 1.5% | |
| 16 | T.PFD AT&T Inc preferred stock | 1.4% | |
| 17 | USB.PFD US Bancorp preferred stock | 1.28% | |
| 18 | COF.PFD Capital One Financial Corporation preferred stock | 1.27% | |
| 19 | ATH Athene Holding DS Representing P | 1.2% | |
| 20 | CHSINC CHS Cumulative Redeemable Pref Cla | 1.12% | |
| 21 | ALL.PFD Allstate Corporation preferred stock | 1.11% | |
| 22 | MCHP.PFD Microchip Technology Incorporated preferred stock | 1.03% | |
| 23 | ALB.PFD Albemarle Corp preferred stock | 1.02% | |
| 24 | AGNC.PFD Agnc Investment Corp preferred stock | 1.0% | |
| 25 | MTB.PFD M T BK Dep Int Perp PFD STK Ser J | 0.96% | |
| 26 | MET.PFD Metlife Inc preferred stock | 0.93% | |
| 27 | KEY.PFD Keycorp preferred stock | 0.88% | |
| 28 | GS.PFD Goldman Sachs Group Inc preferred stock | 0.86% | |
| 29 | RITM.PFD New Residential Investment Corp preferred stock | 0.84% | |
| 30 | F.PFD Ford Motor Company preferred stock | 0.82% | |
| 31 | BTSG.PFD Brightspring Health Services Units | 0.78% | |
| 32 | NLY.PFD Annaly Capital Management Inc preferred stock | 0.73% | |
| 33 | DUK.PFD Duke Energy Corp preferred stock | 0.66% | |
| 34 | BRKR.PFD Bruker Corporation preferred stock | 0.62% | |
| 35 | FITB.PFD Fifth Third Bancorp Depositary Sha preferred stock | 0.61% | |
| 36 | ARES.PFD Ares Management Corp preferred stock | 0.61% | |
| 37 | RF.PFD Regions Financial Corporation preferred stock | 0.61% | |
| 38 | EIX.PFD Sce Trust Vii preferred stock | 0.6% | |
| 39 | TFC.PFD Truist Financial DRC Corp preferred stock | 0.59% | |
| 40 | PCG.PFD PG&E Corporation preferred stock | 0.58% | |
| 41 | ASSE Strive Inc | 0.56% | |
| 42 | DTE.PFD Dte Energy Company preferred stock | 0.55% | |
| 43 | CFG.PFD Citizens Financial Group Inc preferred stock | 0.55% | |
| 44 | PPL.PFD PPL Corporation preferred stock | 0.54% | |
| 45 | SYF.PFD Synchrony Financial preferred stock | 0.53% | |
| 46 | BHF.PFD Brighthouse Financial Inc preferred stock | 0.52% | |
| 47 | SCHW.PFD Charles Schwab Corporation preferred stock | 0.51% | |
| 48 | CMS.PFD CMS Energy Corporation preferred stock | 0.51% | |
| 49 | PRU.PFD Prudential Financial Inc preferred stock | 0.5% | |
| 50 | TMUS.PFD T-Mobile USA Inc preferred stock | 0.45% | |
| 51 | AMG.PFD Affiliated Managers Group Inc. preferred stock | 0.45% | |
| 52 | CIM.PFD Chimera Investment Corp preferred stock | 0.44% | |
| 53 | HBAN.PFD Huntington Bancshares Inc preferred stock | 0.44% | |
| 54 | BPY Brookfield Property Preferred Pref | 0.42% | |
| 55 | TRTN Triton Intl Cum Red Perp Pref Ser | 0.41% | |
| 56 | NOVTV Novanta Tangible Equity Units | 0.41% | |
| 57 | TDS.PFD Telephone and Data Systems Inc preferred stock | 0.39% | |
| 58 | ETR.PFD Entergy Arkansas LLC | 0.39% | |
| 59 | PNFP.PFD Pinnacle Financial Partners Non Cu preferred stock | 0.38% | |
| 60 | XEL.PFD Xcel Energy Inc preferred stock | 0.38% | |
| 61 | EQH.PFD Equitable Hldngs DRC Representing preferred stock | 0.38% | |
| 62 | VNO.PFD Vornado Realty Trust preferred stock | 0.38% | |
| 63 | FCNCA.PFD First Citizens Bancshares Inc (Del preferred stock | 0.38% | |
| 64 | BIP.PFD Bip Bermuda Holdings I Ltd preferred stock | 0.37% | |
| 65 | RGA.PFD Reinsurance Group of America Incor preferred stock | 0.36% | |
| 66 | PMT.PFD Pennymac Mortgage Investment Trust preferred stock | 0.34% | |
| 67 | WRB.PFD WR Berkley Corporation preferred stock | 0.34% | |
| 68 | SF.PFD Stifel Financial Corp preferred stock | 0.33% | |
| 69 | RILY.PFD B. Riley Financial Inc preferred stock | 0.32% | |
| 70 | AEGON Aegon Funding Corporation Ii | 0.32% | |
| 71 | BEPUCN Brookfield BRP Holdings (Canada) I | 0.32% | |
| 72 | FG.PFD F&G Annuities & Life Inc preferred stock | 0.31% | |
| 73 | APO.PFD Apollo Global Management Inc preferred stock | 0.3% | |
| 74 | FHN.PFD First Horizon Corp preferred stock | 0.3% | |
| 75 | ADAM.PFD New York Mortgage Trust Inc preferred stock | 0.29% | |
| 76 | SRE.PFD Sempra Energy preferred stock | 0.29% | |
| 77 | JXN.PFD Jackson Financial Inc preferred stock | 0.28% | |
| 78 | DLR.PFD Digital Realty Trust Inc preferred stock | 0.28% | |
| 79 | ACGL.PFD Arch Capital Group Ltd. preferred stock | 0.27% | |
| 80 | AHL Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd | 0.27% | |
| 81 | BANC.PFD Banc of California Inc preferred stock | 0.27% | |
| 82 | PEB.PFD Pebblebrook Hotel Trust preferred stock | 0.26% | |
| 83 | FOUR.PFD Shift4 Payments Inc preferred stock | 0.26% | |
| 84 | CRBG.PFD Corebridge Financial Inc preferred stock | 0.25% | |
| 85 | MBIN.PFD Merchants Bancorp preferred stock | 0.25% | |
| 86 | CTL Qwest Corp | 0.25% | |
| 87 | MFA.PFD Mfa Financial Inc preferred stock | 0.25% | |
| 88 | AFG.PFD American Financial Group Inc preferred stock | 0.25% | |
| 89 | FLG.PFD New York Community Bancorp Int FXD preferred stock | 0.25% | |
| 90 | BNY.PFD Bank of New York Mellon Corp preferred stock | 0.25% | |
| 91 | RNR.PFD Renaissancere Holdings Ltd preferred stock | 0.24% | |
| 92 | WTFC.PFD Wintrust Financial Corporation preferred stock | 0.22% | |
| 93 | TVA.PFD Tenn Valley Authority preferred stock | 0.22% | |
| 94 | ASB.PFD Associated Banc-Corp preferred stock | 0.22% | |
| 95 | DHC.PFD Diversified Healthcare .625% Senio | 0.22% | |
| 96 | CODI.PFD Compass Diversified Holdings preferred stock | 0.21% | |
| 97 | GNL.PFD Global Net Lease Cumulative Rede | 0.21% | |
| 98 | FAMCA Federal Agricultural Mortgage No | 0.21% | |
| 99 | QXO.PFD Qxo Inc preferred stock | 0.2% | |
| 100 | STT.PFD State Street Corp preferred stock | 0.2% |
The most recent file iShares has published for PFF is dated 2026-10-27, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the iShares ETFs covered here. Every one of the 203 positions PFF holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. Look up MSTR.PFD to see where else, if anywhere, it is held at a weight like the 4.72% in PFF.
Category: Preferred Securities, set by TickerInside from the ETF's own latest file. In its file of 2026-10-27, 93% of its holdings are preferred shares. How categories are set.
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On the close of Friday, October 23, 2026, $11 million came out of PFF, 0.10% of its assets, as it redeemed shares. Over its last 5 closes, a net outflow of $29 million, 3 of them measured.
From PFF's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.
How is PFF split by sector?
| Sector | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Financials | 48.6% | |
| Technology | 12.4% | |
| Utilities | 10.4% | |
| Communication services | 7.2% | |
| Real estate | 4.7% | |
| Industrials | 4.1% | |
| Health care | 1.4% | |
| Consumer discretionary | 1.2% | |
| Materials | 1.1% | |
| Energy | 0.3% | |
| No sector found | 7.5% |
From its iShares file of 2026-10-27. How these are measured.
What did PFF hold in its SEC reports since 2019?
In PFF's SEC filings, its largest position went from JPMorgan Chase & Co preferred stock (JPM.PFD) at 3.45% on 2019-09-30 to Boeing Co preferred stock (BA.PFD) at 3.93% on 2026-06-30, across 28 quarterly reports.
| Report | Positions | Largest | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-30 | 270 | JPM.PFD 3.45% | 22.6% |
| 2019-12-31 | 293 | WFC.PFD 3.99% | 24.7% |
| 2020-12-31 | 328 | WFC.PFD 4.28% | 23.9% |
| 2021-12-31 | 353 | WFC.PFD 3.73% | 26.0% |
| 2022-12-30 | 404 | WFC.PFD 3.89% | 23.4% |
| 2023-12-31 | 362 | MS.PFD 3.68% | 23.2% |
| 2024-12-31 | 347 | MS.PFD 3.87% | 24.1% |
| 2025-12-31 | 342 | BA.PFD 4.34% | 26.8% |
| 2026-06-30 | 343 | BA.PFD 3.93% | 29.0% |
The first report, then the last of each year, of the 28 reports PFF filed on SEC Form N-PORT from 2019-09-30 to 2026-06-30, each company under its ticker today. Every position of every report is in its quarterly file, and at any date at /api/v1/history/pff/{date}.json. How these are read.
What does PFF duplicate?
The ETF nearest to PFF is PGX: the two hold 56.5% of their weight in common, in the 112 companies both own, and 61.2% of PFF itself is also held there. Owning PFF alongside the ETFs at the top of this table means about half of the weight is held twice.
| ETF | Overlap by weight | Of PFF held there | Of that ETF in PFF | Companies in both | Overlap bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PGX | 56.5% | 61.2% | 100.0% | 112 | |
| PGF | 34.3% | 34.8% | 100.0% | 41 | |
| CVY | 5.6% | 18.9% | 6.0% | 7 | |
| PSK | 4.1% | 10.7% | 5.9% | 8 | |
| AVDE | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1 | |
| CNRG | 0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | |
| CWI | 0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | |
| BMVP | 0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | |
| AAXJ | 0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | |
| DGT | 0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | |
| CGW | 0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | |
| ACWI | 0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 |
AVDE's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-05-31, filed 2026-07-29. The other ETFs' holdings are from their issuers' latest files. Check PFF against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.
What adds something different to PFF?
USMV shares 0% of weight with PFF and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.49 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with PFF, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.
| ETF | Name | Overlap by weight | Correlation, 3y | Companies in both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USMV | iShares MSCI USA Min Vol Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.49 | 0 |
| USRT | iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.54 | 0 |
| IYR | iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF | 0.0% | 0.55 | 0 |
| REET | iShares Global REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.58 | 0 |
| VLUE | iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF | 0.0% | 0.61 | 0 |
| THRO | iShares U.S. Thematic Rotation Active ETF | 0.0% | 0.61 | 0 |
| IJR | iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF | 0.0% | 0.65 | 0 |
| SUSA | iShares ESG Optimized MSCI USA ETF | 0.0% | 0.65 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.45% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 5.56% |
| Total return, 1 year | -2.8% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 14.4% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | -2.2% |
| Volatility, annualised | 8.2% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -10.2% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 0.38 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 37.0% |
| Largest single position | 4.7% |
| Assets under management | $12.3B |
Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from PFF's SEC filing of 2026-07-27); the weight in the ten largest positions and the largest single position are from the issuer file of 2026-10-27; every other figure is computed here from weekly closes.
How it moves with the market
| Against | Correlation, 3 years | Covariance, annualised, in percent squared |
|---|---|---|
| SPY | 0.64loosely linked | 73 |
| QQQ | 0.55loosely linked | 88 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | -3.3% |
| 2025 | 4.9% |
| 2024 | 7.2% |
| 2023 | 9.2% |
| 2022 | -18.2% |
One year
Where to go next
- PGF, Invesco Financial Preferred ETF
- PGX, Invesco Preferred ETF
- PSK, State Street SPDR ICE Preferred Securities ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what PFF carries once you look through it
- Compare PFF against any other ETF in the builder
Holdings from the most recent file iShares has published, dated 2026-10-27. Prices through 2026-10-28. How every figure here is produced. Measurements, not investment advice.
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