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First Trust files a 485BPOS for six FT Vest single-stock income series

First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund IV filed a Rule 485(b) post-effective amendment on September 11, 2026, listing six unlisted FT Vest single-stock target-income series as of September 14.

Sep 14, 2026 · 2 min read · By ETF.net Research

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Key takeaways

First Trust has moved six unlisted FT Vest single-stock target-income ETFs to the step that lets shares be offered.
The funds pair a covered-call income mandate with one big-cap name each, from AMD and Amazon to Palantir.
A 485(b) amendment is not a listing or a launch, and none of the six tickers trade yet.
This is the follow-on batch to four funds in the same sleeve that listed in August.

The Friday paper is the kind of amendment an issuer files when it is ready to offer a new series, not when it is rewriting one you already hold. The concrete commitment is in an exhibit: Schedule II to the trust’s Bank of New York Mellon custody agreement, dated as of Monday, September 14, names six FT Vest single-stock target-income series that do not yet trade.

Fund	Ticker	Named stock
FT Vest AMD & Target Income ETF	XVAD	Advanced Micro Devices
FT Vest AMZN & Target Income ETF	XVAZ	Amazon
FT Vest GOOG & Target Income ETF	XVGL	Alphabet
FT Vest META & Target Income ETF	XVMT	Meta Platforms
FT Vest MSFT & Target Income ETF	XVMS	Microsoft
FT Vest PLTR & Target Income ETF	XVPT	Palantir

Those six names sat in registration as far back as December 2025. A 485BPOS under Rule 485(b) is the later step that typically makes a prospectus effective so shares can be offered. It is not a listing, and it is not a launch. As of Monday morning, none of the six tickers had a quoted market.

First Trust already listed four funds in this single-stock target-income sleeve in August: FT Vest AAPL & Target Income ETF XVAP, FT Vest NVDA & Target Income ETF XVNV, FT Vest TSLA & Target Income ETF XVTS, and FT Vest SPCX & Target Income ETF XVSP. This filing is the next batch of the same idea, still on paper.

The registrant is First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund IV, the Massachusetts trust that already houses the issuer’s senior-loan, energy-infrastructure and other target-income ETFs. Nothing in the Friday amendment, on the exhibit that can be read, changes the fees or mandates of those existing funds. Whether any of the six list, on which exchange, and at what expense ratio, is a later fact. Registrations get amended, and launches slip.