Performance analysis of BFEB (Innovator U.S. Equity Buffer ETF - February)
Annual Return
Over the past 3 years, BFEB has had an average annual return of +14.96%, underperforming the benchmark SPY, which returned +19.31% annual.
Over the past 5 years, BFEB has had an average annual return of +11.32%, underperforming the benchmark SPY, which returned +12.55% annual.
Since Feb 3, 2020, BFEB has had an average annual return of +12.41%, underperforming the benchmark SPY, which returned +15.33% annual.
| 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +8.05% | +12.98% | +17.59% | +22.36% | -6.77% | +18.04% | +10.17% |
Monthly Return
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annually Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +2.17% | -0.56% | -3.52% | +7.53% | +2.75% | -0.11% | -0.11% | +8.05% | |||||
| 2025 | +1.04% | -0.85% | -3.75% | -0.58% | +4.51% | +3.47% | +1.73% | +1.58% | +2.41% | +1.27% | +0.67% | +1.03% | +12.98% |
| 2024 | +2.29% | +2.99% | +1.79% | -1.92% | +3.40% | +2.02% | +0.76% | +1.57% | +0.88% | +0.17% | +2.23% | +0.24% | +17.59% |
| 2023 | +6.05% | -1.91% | +2.70% | +1.31% | +0.47% | +4.95% | +2.05% | -0.64% | -3.85% | -1.66% | +7.66% | +3.86% | +22.36% |
| 2022 | +0.28% | -2.15% | +2.73% | -6.54% | +0.60% | -5.84% | +6.63% | -2.50% | -6.31% | +6.08% | +4.01% | -2.79% | -6.77% |
| 2021 | +1.32% | +1.85% | +3.48% | +2.84% | +1.14% | +1.37% | +0.72% | +1.15% | -1.31% | +2.64% | -0.27% | +1.86% | +18.04% |
| 2020 | -7.21% | -8.77% | +9.08% | +3.57% | +1.46% | +3.64% | +3.97% | -1.64% | -1.86% | +7.04% | +1.97% | +10.17% |
Drawdown analysis of BFEB (Innovator U.S. Equity Buffer ETF - February)
The maximum drawdown for the BFEB was -26.36%, occurring on Mar 23, 2020. Recovery took 99 trading sessions.
The current BFEB drawdown is -0.90%.
Since Feb 3, 2020 BFEB has experienced the following drawdowns:
- 20% or more: 1 time
- 10% or more: 3 times
| Depth | Start | To Bottom | Bottom | To Recover | End | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -26.36% | Feb 19, 2020 | 23 | Mar 23, 2020 | 99 | Aug 12, 2020 | 122 |
| -14.84% | Mar 29, 2022 | 136 | Oct 12, 2022 | 159 | Jun 1, 2023 | 295 |
| -13.82% | Feb 19, 2025 | 34 | Apr 8, 2025 | 52 | Jun 24, 2025 | 86 |
| -7.47% | Jul 28, 2023 | 64 | Oct 27, 2023 | 16 | Nov 20, 2023 | 80 |
| -6.54% | Feb 9, 2022 | 22 | Mar 14, 2022 | 11 | Mar 29, 2022 | 33 |
| -6.41% | Feb 2, 2026 | 39 | Mar 30, 2026 | 10 | Apr 14, 2026 | 49 |
| -4.75% | Oct 12, 2020 | 14 | Oct 30, 2020 | 5 | Nov 6, 2020 | 19 |
| -4.70% | Jul 16, 2024 | 14 | Aug 5, 2024 | 10 | Aug 19, 2024 | 24 |
| -4.44% | Sep 2, 2020 | 14 | Sep 23, 2020 | 13 | Oct 12, 2020 | 27 |
| -3.28% | Feb 12, 2021 | 13 | Mar 4, 2021 | 5 | Mar 11, 2021 | 18 |
| -2.93% | Mar 28, 2024 | 15 | Apr 19, 2024 | 14 | May 9, 2024 | 29 |
| -2.58% | Oct 27, 2025 | 18 | Nov 20, 2025 | 4 | Nov 26, 2025 | 22 |
| -2.44% | May 7, 2021 | 3 | May 12, 2021 | 12 | May 28, 2021 | 15 |
| -2.36% | Jun 2, 2026 | 6 | Jun 10, 2026 | 16 | Jul 6, 2026 | 22 |
| -2.11% | Aug 30, 2024 | 4 | Sep 6, 2024 | 6 | Sep 16, 2024 | 10 |
| -1.76% | Sep 1, 2021 | 22 | Oct 4, 2021 | 8 | Oct 14, 2021 | 30 |
| -1.75% | Jan 4, 2022 | 14 | Jan 25, 2022 | 4 | Jan 31, 2022 | 18 |
| -1.74% | Oct 8, 2025 | 2 | Oct 10, 2025 | 6 | Oct 20, 2025 | 8 |
| -1.71% | Feb 2, 2022 | 3 | Feb 7, 2022 | 2 | Feb 9, 2022 | 5 |
| -1.68% | Jul 28, 2025 | 4 | Aug 1, 2025 | 7 | Aug 12, 2025 | 11 |
| -1.52% | Jul 12, 2021 | 5 | Jul 19, 2021 | 4 | Jul 23, 2021 | 9 |
| -1.51% | Nov 5, 2021 | 17 | Dec 1, 2021 | 7 | Dec 10, 2021 | 24 |
| -1.49% | Dec 28, 2023 | 4 | Jan 4, 2024 | 4 | Jan 10, 2024 | 8 |
| -1.44% | Jan 12, 2026 | 5 | Jan 20, 2026 | 4 | Jan 26, 2026 | 9 |
| -1.31% | Mar 17, 2021 | 5 | Mar 24, 2021 | 2 | Mar 26, 2021 | 7 |