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FT Vest Buffered Allocation Defensive ETF (BUFT)

Defined Outcome | Exchange Traded Fund | Cboe US
25.53 USD -0.02 (-0.078%) ⇩ (April 20, 2026, 3:53 p.m. EDT)

Short-term: ★★★★☆ | Long-term: ★★★☆☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 11:55 p.m. EDT

Strong near-term momentum (+2.2% in 14 days) near 52-week highs, though no dividend yield exists for this defensive buffer strategy.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoTheta ✓0.003268
AutoARIMA0.003813
AutoETS0.003854
MSTL0.004030

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta

Forecast Reliability
Score 4%
H-stat 13.77
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.000
Excess Kurtosis 9.34
Attribute Value
Trailing P/E 26.47

Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 25.58
All Time Low 18.0
Ask 26.94
Ask Size 200
Average Daily Volume10 Day 13,880
Average Daily Volume3 Month 25,086
Average Volume 25,086
Average Volume10Days 13,880
Beta3 Year 0.31
Bid 10.21
Bid Size 200
Category Defined Outcome
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 25.5567
Day Low 25.5031
Dividend Yield 0.0
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 0.964331
Esg Populated 0
Exchange BTS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 24.89774
Fifty Day Average Change 0.6272602
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.02519346
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 17.367113
Fifty Two Week High 25.58
Fifty Two Week High Change -0.055000305
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.0021501293
Fifty Two Week Low 21.55
Fifty Two Week Low Change 3.9750004
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.18445478
Fifty Two Week Range 21.55 - 25.58
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,635,427,800,000
Full Exchange Name Cboe US
Fund Family First Trust
Fund Inception Date 1,635,206,400
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Language en-US
Legal Type Exchange Traded Fund
Long Business Summary The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in a portfolio of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) that seek to provide investors with returns (before fees and expenses) based on the price return of the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF Trust (“SPY”), up to a predetermined cap, while providing a defined buffer against losses of SPY over a defined one-year period (the "underlying ETFs"). Under normal market conditions, it will invest substantially all of its assets in underlying ETFs.
Long Name FT Vest Buffered Allocation Defensive ETF
Market us_market
Market State PRE
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1684699013
Nav Price 25.53
Net Assets 140,039,616.0
Net Expense Ratio 1.21
Open 25.49
Previous Close 25.545
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Delayed Quote
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change -0.0200005
Regular Market Change Percent -0.078295
Regular Market Day High 25.5567
Regular Market Day Low 25.5031
Regular Market Day Range 25.5031 - 25.5567
Regular Market Open 25.49
Regular Market Previous Close 25.545
Regular Market Price 25.525
Regular Market Time 1,776,714,831
Regular Market Volume 8,653
Short Name FT Vest Buffered Allocation Def
Source Interval 15
Symbol BUFT
Three Year Average Return 0.1009061
Total Assets 140,039,616
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing P E 26.469128
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns 0.77236
Trailing Three Month Returns 0.77236
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 24.379345
Two Hundred Day Average Change 1.1456547
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.046992842
Type Disp ETF
Volume 8,653
Yield 0.0
Ytd Return 0.77236