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AB Conservative Buffer ETF (BUFC)

Defined Outcome | Exchange Traded Fund | NasdaqGM
41.74 USD -0.02 (-0.048%) ⇩ (April 20, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)

Short-term: ★★★★★ | Long-term: ★★★☆☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | April 19, 2026, 12:41 a.m. EDT

Exceptional short-term momentum driven by AB strategy performance, showing a 1.7% gain vs 50-day MA and solid daily gains, but long-term buy ratings are muted by high P/E (28x) and the complete absence of dividends due to the conservative buffer structure.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoTheta ✓0.016237
AutoARIMA0.021757
MSTL0.022574
AutoETS0.022579

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta

Forecast Reliability
Score 42%
H-stat 16.77
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.363
Excess Kurtosis -1.03
Attribute Value
Trailing P/E 28.07

Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 41.76
All Time Low 35.0
Ask 41.77
Ask Size 3
Average Daily Volume10 Day 33,060
Average Daily Volume3 Month 53,934
Average Volume 53,934
Average Volume10Days 33,060
Beta3 Year 0.0
Bid 41.64
Bid Size 2
Category Defined Outcome
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 41.74
Day Low 41.65
Dividend Yield 0.0
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 1.4868993
Esg Populated 0
Exchange NGM
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 41.09514
Fifty Day Average Change 0.6448631
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.015691957
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 9.410227
Fifty Two Week High 41.76
Fifty Two Week High Change -0.019996643
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.00047884684
Fifty Two Week Low 37.98
Fifty Two Week Low Change 3.7600021
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.09899953
Fifty Two Week Range 37.98 - 41.76
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,702,477,800,000
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGM
Fund Family AllianceBernstein
Fund Inception Date 1,702,339,200
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Ipo Expected Date 2,023-12-13
Language en-US
Legal Type Exchange Traded Fund
Long Business Summary The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal conditions, substantially all of its assets in a combination of exchange-traded options contracts on an underlying ETF. The underlying ETF (initially expected to be the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF Trust) is an ETF that seeks to track the investment results of the S&P 500 Index, which measures the performance of the large-capitalization sector of the U.S. equity market, as determined by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC. The fund is non-diversified.
Long Name AB Conservative Buffer ETF
Market us_market
Market State PRE
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1852833665
Nav Price 41.6817
Net Assets 1,008,143,620.0
Net Expense Ratio 0.69
Open 41.65
Previous Close 41.76
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change -0.019997
Regular Market Change Percent -0.047885
Regular Market Day High 41.74
Regular Market Day Low 41.65
Regular Market Day Range 41.65 - 41.74
Regular Market Open 41.65
Regular Market Previous Close 41.76
Regular Market Price 41.74
Regular Market Time 1,776,715,201
Regular Market Volume 32,065
Short Name AB Conservative Buffer ETF
Source Interval 15
Symbol BUFC
Total Assets 1,008,143,616
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing P E 28.071842
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns -1.67594
Trailing Three Month Returns -1.67594
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 40.759464
Two Hundred Day Average Change 0.9805374
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.02405668
Type Disp ETF
Volume 32,065
Yield 0.0
Ytd Return -1.67594