FFC — Flaherty & Crumrine PREFERRED & INCOME SECURITIES FUND INC

US equity
16.08 -0.43% today
USD · as of 2026-08-21

Price · 2024-08-26 → 2026-08-21

499 daily closes shown
52w low 15.01 · high 16.94

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Performance

1 day-0.43%
1 week-0.86%
1 month-0.06%
3 months+1.84%
6 months-3.48%
Year to date-3.25%
1 year-0.56%
3 years+20.54%
5 years-30.36%

Technicals

RSI 1436.6
vs 50-day avg-0.34%
vs 200-day avg-1.09%
Volatility 1y9.6%
Max drawdown 1y-11.39%
Avg volume 30d88.0K
Daily bars held2,674
History from2016-01-04

Dividends

Yield (trailing 12m)8.16%
Paid last 12m1.4471
Payments in 12m14
Paying since2016-01-20

⚠ Includes an irregular or special distribution — this yield is unlikely to repeat.

Measured signals that fired on FFC

datesignal measured base rate
2026-06-05Short volume far above its own normal
short
-0.76% over 21 days · t = -2.79 · n = 5,897
statistically distinguishable from its control group
2026-04-14Short volume far above its own normal
short
-0.76% over 21 days · t = -2.79 · n = 5,897
statistically distinguishable from its control group

Excess return against a matched control group, on a point-in-time universe that includes delisted companies. Most families do not survive that. How the measurement works →

Largest institutional holders

managervalueshares
BARD ASSOCIATES INC18.8M1.2M
WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN14.3M926.4K
Invesco Ltd.10.5M678.4K
MORGAN STANLEY10.4M674.5K
Hennion & Walsh Asset Management, Inc.6.6M424.8K
BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/5.8M372.9K
1607 Capital Partners, LLC5.3M340.3K
Csenge Advisory Group5.2M333.2K
LPL Financial LLC4.8M309.2K
STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP4.3M279.9K

13F positions as of 2026-03-31, filed up to 45 days after quarter end. Long-only US equity — shorts and derivatives never appear. What 13F does and does not show →

Short selling

Avg short volume, 90d43.3% of tape
Days observed61

This is off-exchange short volume, not short interest: it is flow, not position, and 40–50% is normal because market makers short to fill your buy. Why that number misleads →

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