.One financial company is actually attempting to maximize participating preferred stocks u00e2 $" which bring additional threats than connections, but may not be as unsafe as usual stocks.Infrastructure Financing Advisors Founder and also chief executive officer Jay Hatfield manages the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the provider's trading and company growth." High yield connections as well as favored stocksu00e2 $ u00a6 often tend to do far better than other predetermined profit classifications when the stock market is powerful, and also when our team're coming out of a securing cycle like our team are actually now," he told CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week.Hatfield's ETF is up 10% in 2024 as well as nearly 23% over the past year.His ETF's 3 leading holdings are actually Regions Financial, SLM Organization, as well as Electricity Move LP as of Sept. 30, according to FactSet. All three supplies are actually up approximately 18% or even more this year.Hatfield's group picks labels that it considers are actually mispriced relative to their risk as well as yield, he claimed. "The majority of the top holdings reside in what we call asset extensive businesses," Hatfield said.Since its Might 2018 inception, the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Participating Preferred Stock ETF is down nearly 9%.