FT Vest U.S. Equity Equal Weight Buffer ETF - March
$23.94−0.09 (−0.37%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.85%
- Fund size
- $11M
- 1Y return
- +11.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- —
- Holdings
- 4
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.03
- 52W range
The ETF.net RSMR Grade
Score 52 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 39Category 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.AScore 79Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 55Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 44Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 61Category rank
Our read on RSMR
CMost buffer ETFs wrap their cushion around the cap-weighted S&P 500. This one wraps it around the equal-weight version, where the smallest name counts about as much as the biggest, and resets every March.
The Fund seeks to match the price return of the Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight ETF Trust, before fees and expenses, up to a 17.80% cap while buffering the first 10% of losses during the stated outcome period.
Why people hold it
- The uncommon buffer build: outcomes are tied to the price of an equal-weight S&P 500 basket, so a handful of mega caps don't steer the result the way they do in cap-weighted buffer funds.
- Downside terms are written down in advance: the first 10% of a decline in the reference basket is absorbed across each one-year outcome period, with a fresh period starting each March.
- Charges 0.85%, the same as its June-dated sibling RSJN, and roughly in line with what defined-outcome funds typically cost.
- Plain-vanilla plumbing: a registered 1940 Act ETF with no structural flags, and it stands in the upper half of the buffer group on our review.
Worth knowing
- Upside is capped each period, and both cap and buffer run from the March start date, so buying mid-period leaves you with different numbers than the headline terms.
- It targets price return only, so dividends from the underlying stocks aren't passed through to shareholders.
- Launched in 2025 and one of the smaller, less-traded names in the buffer group, which makes limit orders worth the extra click.
RSMR Holdings
- Other
- 4
- 103%
- 2027-03-19 Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight ETF C 1.90
RSMR 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 | RSMR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.5% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | +2.4% |
| 1 year | +11.9% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | RSMR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.5% | |
| 2025 | +8.0% |
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RSMR Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
RSMR Risk
- 5.0%
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.
- 1.85
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.
- −9.1%
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.
- 0.31
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
RSMR Cost
- The middle half of Other Buffered funds
- Median 0.85%
2 of the 9 Other Buffered funds charge less.