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FT Vest U.S. Equity Moderate Buffer ETF – September (GSEP)

Defined Outcome | Exchange Traded Fund | Cboe US
41.10 USD -0.09 (-0.219%) ⇩ (July 13, 2026, 3:58 p.m. EDT)

Short-term:★★★⯪☆Long-term:★★⯪☆☆Dividends:☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | July 11, 2026, 5:22 a.m. EDT

The moderate buffer ETF shows a distinct short-term uptrend, trading near its 52-week high of $41.19 after climbing from mid-June lows. Technicals are supportive, with the price hovering above both the 50-day and 200-day moving averages, suggesting a constructive bias for the coming weeks. However, the long-term investment case is neutral because the security is less than a year old; there is insufficient price history to evaluate multi-year business quality or structural trends, so it cannot be rated as a superior buy or avoid based on trajectory. Furthermore, as a leveraged buffer product designed for specific equity exposure, it does not distribute dividends, rendering it unsuitable for income-focused strategies.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
MSTL ✓0.006721
AutoARIMA0.008556
AutoTheta0.012704
AutoETS0.016970

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL

Forecast Reliability
Score 74%
H-stat 1.09
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.712
Excess Kurtosis -0.20
Attribute Value
Trailing P/E 26.84

Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 41.195
All Time Low 28.89
Ask 0.0
Ask Size 500
Average Daily Volume10 Day 38,270
Average Daily Volume3 Month 100,072
Average Volume 100,072
Average Volume10Days 38,270
Beta3 Year 0.0
Bid 0.0
Bid Size 300
Category Defined Outcome
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 41.195
Day Low 41.09
Dividend Yield 0.0
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 1.5314944
Esg Populated 0
Exchange BTS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 40.6688
Fifty Day Average Change 0.43119812
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.010602676
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 11.645341
Fifty Two Week High 41.195
Fifty Two Week High Change -0.09500122
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.0023061347
Fifty Two Week Low 36.81
Fifty Two Week Low Change 4.289997
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.116544336
Fifty Two Week Range 36.81 - 41.195
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,695,043,800,000
Full Exchange Name Cboe US
Fund Family First Trust
Fund Inception Date 1,694,736,000
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Language en-US
Legal Type Exchange Traded Fund
Long Business Summary Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest substantially all of its assets in FLexible EXchange® Options that reference the price performance of the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF Trust. It uses FLEX Options to employ a “target outcome strategy.” The fund is non-diversified.
Long Name FT Vest U.S. Equity Moderate Buffer ETF – September
Market us_market
Market State PRE
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1844062112
Nav Price 41.2
Net Assets 342,095,296.0
Net Expense Ratio 0.85
Open 41.13
Previous Close 41.19
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Delayed Quote
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change -0.0900002
Regular Market Change Percent -0.2185
Regular Market Day High 41.195
Regular Market Day Low 41.09
Regular Market Day Range 41.09 - 41.195
Regular Market Open 41.13
Regular Market Previous Close 41.19
Regular Market Price 41.1
Regular Market Time 1,783,972,731
Regular Market Volume 10,725
Short Name FT Vest U.S. Equity Moderate Bu
Source Interval 15
Symbol GSEP
Total Assets 342,095,296
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing P E 26.836533
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns 7.58929
Trailing Three Month Returns 7.58929
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 39.149334
Two Hundred Day Average Change 1.9506645
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.04982625
Type Disp ETF
Volume 10,725
Yield 0.0
Ytd Return 5.64724