# LBO Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium

> LBO trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.

Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

As of Nov 4, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

## LBO bid-ask spread and liquidity

As of Nov 4, 2026, LBO’s holdings can absorb $16m a day.

### IQ Liquidity Score

Not scored, 2 of 6 measured.

A fixed 0 to 100 scale of trading conditions, the same anchors for every fund; 100 is the easiest to trade. It measures how cheaply and reliably the fund can be bought and sold, not whether to own it. How the score is built

Cost to trade Not measured: the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund Capacity, 40.2 Holdings can absorb $16m a day, Nov 4, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 65.0 4 active dealers of 4; largest 52% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Jan 31, 2026 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: no daily closing premium is held for this fund Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2)

### Capacity

Its holdings can absorb $16m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Nov 4, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is Compass Diversified Holdings (CODI), 3.42% of the fund.

### Dealers

4 active of 4 authorized participants; the largest did 52% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Jan 31, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Apr 10, 2026).

The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: RBC Capital Markets, LLC (52.1%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (37.0%), Virtu Americas LLC (8.6%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (2.2%).

### How to trade LBO

When ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last minutes before the close. ETFIQ measures this fund’s own day once it has trade data. Size Up to $160,829 is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell.

### Where it trades

In Q2 2026, odd lots were 7.9% of LBO’s exchange volume.

### Coming with trade data

Spread through the day, buyers against sellers, an estimate of retail flow, large trades and the closing auction’s share, each once ETFIQ has trade and quote data.

### Questions people ask

Who is the AP for LBO? LBO’s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Jan 31, 2026, lists 4 authorized participants (APs), and 4 created or redeemed shares. The largest were RBC Capital Markets, LLC (52.1%), Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (37.0%), Virtu Americas LLC (8.6%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for LBO? LBO is on none of the lead market maker (LMM) lists ETFIQ reads, from NYSE Arca, Cboe BZX and Nasdaq. Each list covers only that exchange’s own program, so this does not mean it has no LMM.

### Sources and dates

- Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding’s 20-day median dollar volume, to Nov 4, 2026.

- Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Jan 31, 2026, accession 0000894189-26-012003.

- Where it trades: SEC MIDAS, Q2 2026.

### Where to next

The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser, and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources

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Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.
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