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AB Moderate Buffer ETF (BUFM)

Defined Outcome | Exchange Traded Fund | NasdaqGM
41.22 USD +0.03 (0.073%) ⇧ (Aug. 28, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)
After hours: 41.22 +0.04 (0.097%) ⇧ (Aug. 28, 2026, 4:10 p.m. EDT)

Short-term:★★⯪☆☆Long-term:★★⯪☆☆Dividends:☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | Aug. 22, 2026, 6:08 a.m. EDT

The moderate buffer ETF shows no clear directional edge for the immediate future, trading flat against its moving averages with negligible statistical predictive power. While the price has held steady near the upper end of its recent range, the lack of significant volume expansion or a defined trend prevents a bullish call. Looking further out, the security is too new to assess based on multi-year price trajectories, and the absence of any dividend history eliminates income appeal entirely. This leaves it as a speculative vehicle with no fundamental moat or yield to support a higher valuation.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
MSTL ✓0.004374
AutoETS0.004496
AutoTheta0.006730
AutoARIMA0.010225

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL

Forecast Reliability
Score 73%
H-stat 0.67
Ljung-Box p 0.001
Jarque-Bera p 0.430
Excess Kurtosis 0.92
Attribute Value
Trailing P/E 25.64

Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 41.41
All Time Low 32.06
Ask 41.33
Ask Size 4
Average Daily Volume10 Day 33,360
Average Daily Volume3 Month 33,670
Average Volume 33,670
Average Volume10Days 33,360
Beta3 Year 0.0
Bid 41.21
Bid Size 2
Category Defined Outcome
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 41.24
Day Low 41.17
Dividend Yield 0.0
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 1.6074641
Esg Populated 0
Exchange NGM
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 40.74512
Fifty Day Average Change 0.47488022
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.011654898
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 10.173559
Fifty Two Week High 41.41
Fifty Two Week High Change -0.18999863
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.0045882305
Fifty Two Week Low 36.19
Fifty Two Week Low Change 5.0300026
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.13898875
Fifty Two Week Range 36.19 - 41.41
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,733,927,400,000
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGM
Fullday Change 0.0300026
Fullday Change Percent 0.0728395
Fullday Price 41.22
Fund Family AllianceBernstein
Fund Inception Date 1,733,702,400
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Ipo Expected Date 2,024-12-10
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. The fund is non-diversified.
Long Name AB Moderate Buffer ETF
Market us_market
Market State CLOSED
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1892248228
Nav Price 41.1301
Net Assets 452,265,472.0
Net Expense Ratio 0.69
Open 41.24
Post Market Change 0.040000916
Post Market Change Percent 0.09713675
Post Market Price 41.22
Post Market Time 1,787,947,804
Previous Close 41.19
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change 0.030002594
Regular Market Change Percent 0.07283951
Regular Market Day High 41.24
Regular Market Day Low 41.17
Regular Market Day Range 41.17 - 41.24
Regular Market Open 41.24
Regular Market Previous Close 41.19
Regular Market Price 41.22
Regular Market Time 1,787,947,200
Regular Market Volume 10,653
Short Name AB Moderate Buffer ETF
Source Interval 15
Symbol BUFM
Total Assets 452,265,472
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing P E 25.642876
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns 2.34944
Trailing Three Month Returns 2.34944
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 39.652195
Two Hundred Day Average Change 1.5678062
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.039538953
Type Disp ETF
Volume 10,653
Yield 0.0
Ytd Return 3.87996