
FT Vest U.S. Equity Deep Buffer ETF - June
$50.20−0.14 (−0.27%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.85%
- Fund size
- $360M
- 1Y return
- +8.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- —
- Holdings
- 4
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.36
- 52W range
The ETF.net DJUN Grade
Score 45 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.DScore 31Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 34Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 63Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 69Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 70Category rank
Our read on DJUN
CDJUN takes the first 5% of an S&P 500 drop on the chin, then absorbs the next 25 points. That is the deep-buffer bargain: no help with the scrapes, real cover in a rout, with an upside cap that resets every June.
The fund seeks to match the price return of the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, subject to a 13.60% upside cap, while buffering losses in the underlying between 5% and 30% during the June 22, 2026 to June 17, 2027 outcome period.
Why people hold it
- Deep, not shallow: the fund is built to absorb losses in the underlying from 5% down to 30%, a 25-point cushion across each one-year outcome period.ftportfolios.com
- Twelve near-identical siblings, one per calendar month (DFEB, DMAR, DSEP and the rest). DJUN owns the June start date, so entries can be laddered across the year.
- The reference asset is the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust. Underneath the options wrapper sits plain US large-cap exposure, not a niche index you have to decode.ftportfolios.com
- Live since 2020, with a fresh cap and buffer struck every June since. This is a seasoned rung of the series, not a launch-week experiment.
Worth knowing
- 0.85% a year lands at the median for deep-buffer funds, but cheaper builds exist: the Pacer Swan SOS Conservative funds (PSCX, PSCW, PSCQ) charge 0.49%.
- It tracks price return, so S&P 500 dividends are left behind, and the cap puts a ceiling on a big year. Protection is the thing you are paying for.
- Volume is light, so spreads can widen. And buying mid-period means the cap and cushion you actually get differ from the stated terms set at the June reset.
DJUN Holdings
- Other
- 4
- 102%
- 2027-06-17 State Street® SPDR® S&P 500® ETF Trust C 7.46
DJUN Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | DJUN |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +6.4% |
| 1 month | +0.7% |
| 3 months | +2.4% |
| 1 year | +8.4% |
| 3 years | +12.4% |
| 5 years | +8.3% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | DJUN |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +6.4% | |
| 2025 | +9.4% | |
| 2024 | +13.9% | |
| 2023 | +17.6% | |
| 2022 | −6.3% | |
| 2021 | +6.3% | |
| 2020 | +6.5% |
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DJUN Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
DJUN Risk
- 6.8%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −12.0%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.45
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DJUN Cost
- The middle half of S&P 500 Deep Buffer 25-30% funds
- Median 0.85%
7 of the 19 S&P 500 Deep Buffer 25-30% funds charge less.