.One financial agency is trying to take advantage of preferred stocks u00e2 $" which carry even more risks than connects, but aren't as high-risk as common stocks.Infrastructure Financing Advisors Founder and CEO Jay Hatfield takes care of the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the provider's investing as well as company growth." Higher yield connections and liked stocksu00e2 $ u00a6 have a tendency to carry out better than various other preset revenue groups when the stock market is tough, as well as when our experts are actually coming out of a firming up pattern like our company are actually currently," he said to CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week.Hatfield's ETF is actually up 10% in 2024 and just about 23% over recent year.His ETF's three leading holdings are actually Regions Financial, SLM Company, as well as Power Transactions LP since Sept. 30, according to FactSet. All 3 supplies are up about 18% or even more this year.Hatfield's team decides on names that it deems are actually mispriced relative to their danger and return, he mentioned. "The majority of the top holdings reside in what our team call possession extensive businesses," Hatfield said.Since its May 2018 beginning, the Virtus InfraCap USA Preferred Stock ETF is down almost 9%.