.One financial firm is making an effort to capitalize on preferred stocks u00e2 $" which hold more risks than bonds, yet may not be as risky as common stocks.Infrastructure Financing Advisors Owner and also chief executive officer Jay Hatfield manages the Virtus InfraCap United State Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the firm's committing and organization growth." High turnout connections and also favored stocksu00e2 $ u00a6 tend to accomplish far better than other set revenue classifications when the stock exchange is actually sturdy, and when our company are actually coming out of a firming up pattern like our team are actually now," he informed CNBC's "ETF Advantage" this week.Hatfield's ETF is actually up 10% in 2024 and also practically 23% over the past year.His ETF's 3 leading holdings are actually Regions Financial, SLM Company, as well as Electricity Transfer LP since Sept. 30, depending on to FactSet. All 3 stocks are up approximately 18% or even more this year.Hatfield's team chooses titles that it views as are actually mispriced about their threat and also turnout, he mentioned. "A lot of the best holdings are in what we call resource extensive businesses," Hatfield said.Since its own May 2018 beginning, the Virtus InfraCap United State Participating Preferred Stock ETF is down nearly 9%.