UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-Q

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

Investment Company Act file number: (811-07513)

Exact name of registrant as specified in charter: Putnam Funds Trust

Address of principal executive offices: One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

Name and address of agent for service: Robert T. Burns, Vice President
One Post Office Square
Boston, Massachusetts 02109

Copy to:         Bryan Chegwidden, Esq.
Ropes & Gray LLP
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (617) 292-1000

Date of fiscal year end: April 30, 2018

Date of reporting period: January 31, 2018

Item 1. Schedule of Investments:

Putnam Equity Spectrum Fund
The fund's portfolio
1/31/18 (Unaudited)
COMMON STOCKS (87.0%)(a)
	Shares	Value
Aerospace and defense (0.1%)
Northrop Grumman Corp.	3,500	$1,191,855
		1,191,855
Chemicals (3.5%)
W.R. Grace & Co.	462,442	34,137,468
		34,137,468
Commercial services and supplies (—%)
New Bigfoot Other Assets GmbH (acquired 8/2/13, cost $151) (Private) (Germany)(NON)(F)(RES)	114	106
New Middle East Other Assets GmbH (acquired 8/2/13, cost $62) (Private) (Germany)(NON)(F)(RES)	47	44
		150
Communications equipment (20.4%)
EchoStar Corp. Class A(NON)	3,289,870	200,879,462
		200,879,462
Construction and engineering (1.5%)
HC2 Holdings, Inc.(NON)(AFF)	2,391,241	14,347,446
		14,347,446
Equity real estate investment trusts (REITs) (0.5%)
Altisource Residential Corp.(R)	442,200	4,868,622
		4,868,622
Health-care equipment and supplies (10.0%)
GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.(NON)(S)(AFF)	2,796,412	15,212,481
STAAR Surgical Co.(NON)(AFF)	5,334,580	83,752,906
		98,965,387
Household durables (—%)
HC Brillant Services GmbH (acquired 8/2/13, cost $151) (Private) (Germany)(NON)(F)(RES)	228	212
		212
Internet and direct marketing retail (0.2%)
Global Fashion Group SA (acquired 8/2/13, cost $7,569,814) (Private) (Luxembourg)(NON)(F)(RES)	178,692	1,783,822
		1,783,822
Media (18.2%)
DISH Network Corp. Class A(NON)	3,826,353	179,455,956
		179,455,956
Oil, gas, and consumable fuels (2.4%)
Pioneer Natural Resources Co.	127,716	23,360,534
		23,360,534
Pharmaceuticals (23.9%)
Cardiome Pharma Corp. (Canada)(NON)(S)(AFF)	3,092,133	4,700,042
Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC(NON)	1,560,710	227,457,877
Medicines Co. (The)(NON)(S)	117,100	3,879,523
		236,037,442
Real estate management and development (6.3%)
Altisource Asset Management Corp. (Virgin Islands)(NON)(AFF)	271,292	18,725,686
Altisource Portfolio Solutions SA(NON)(AFF)	1,549,006	43,372,168
		62,097,854
Total common stocks (cost $644,935,022)		$857,126,210
CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCKS (3.7%)(a)
	Shares	Value
Altisource Asset Management Corp. zero% cv. pfd. (acquired 3/17/14, cost $50,000,000) (Virgin Islands)(NON)(RES)(AFF)	50,000	$17,987,500
Uber Technologies, Inc. Ser. E, 8.00% cv. pfd. (acquired 2/28/15, cost $19,141,459) (Private)(NON)(F)(RES)	566,025	18,648,146
Total convertible preferred stocks (cost $69,141,459)		$36,635,646
INVESTMENT COMPANIES (1.8%)(a)
	Shares	Value
VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF(S)	755,600	$17,945,500
Total investment companies (cost $18,088,568)		$17,945,500
SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS (10.7%)(a)
	Shares	Value
Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC 1.57%(AFF)	28,653,680	$28,653,680
Putnam Short Term Investment Fund 1.45%(AFF)	76,445,265	76,445,265
Total short-term investments (cost $105,098,945)		$105,098,945
TOTAL INVESTMENTS
Total investments (cost $837,263,994)		$1,016,806,301

Key to holding's abbreviations
ETF	Exchange Traded Fund

	Notes to the fund's portfolio
	Unless noted otherwise, the notes to the fund's portfolio are for the close of the fund's reporting period, which ran from May 1, 2017 through January 31, 2018 (the reporting period). Within the following notes to the portfolio, references to "Putnam Management" represent Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the fund's manager, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Putnam Investments, LLC, references to "ASC 820" represent Accounting Standards Codification 820 Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures and references to "OTC", if any, represent over-the-counter.
(a)	Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $985,378,376.
(NON)	This security is non-income-producing.
(RES)	This security is restricted with regard to public resale. The total fair value of this security and any other restricted securities (excluding 144A securities), if any, held at the close of the reporting period was $38,419,830, or 3.9% of net assets.
(AFF)	Affiliated company. For investments in Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC and Putnam Short Term Investment Fund, the rate quoted in the security description is the annualized 7-day yield of the fund at the close of the reporting period. Transactions during the period with any company which is under common ownership or control, or involving securities of companies in which the fund owned at least 5% of the outstanding voting securities, were as follows:

Name of affiliate	Fair value as of 4/30/17	Purchase cost	Sale proceeds	Investment income	Realized gain (loss)	Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)	Shares outstanding at period end	Fair value as of 1/31/18
Short-term investments
Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC‡#	$60,887,500	$328,180,181	$360,414,001	$442,874	$—	$—	28,653,680	$28,653,680
Putnam Short Term Investment Fund**	77,417,177	207,666,973	208,638,885	600,711	—	—	76,445,265	76,445,265
Total Short-term investments	138,304,677	535,847,154	569,052,886	1,043,585	—	—		105,098,945
Common stocks*
Industrials
HC2 Holdings, Inc.†	-	1,737,463	—	—	—	401,159	2,391,241	14,347,446
Health Care
GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.	36,875,602	—	1,043,427	—	199,427	(20,819,121)	2,796,412	15,212,481
STAAR Surgical Co.	62,831,517	—	10,235,482	—	2,412,265	28,744,606	5,334,580	83,752,906
Cardiome Pharma Corp.	6,703,310	4,517,808	—	—	—	(6,521,076)	3,092,133	4,700,042
Real Estate
Altisource Asset Management Corp.	20,780,967	—	—	—	—	(2,055,281)	271,292	18,725,686
Altisource Portfolio Solutions SA	42,558,727	—	10,513,916	—	(31,675,377)	43,002,734	1,549,006	43,372,168
Total Common stocks	169,750,123	6,255,271	21,792,825	—	(29,063,685)	42,753,021		180,110,729
Convertible preferred stocks
Altisource Asset Management Corp. cv. pfd.	18,025,000	—	—	—	—	(37,500)	50,000	17,987,500
Total Convertible preferred stocks	18,025,000	—	—	—	—	(37,500)		17,987,500
Totals	$326,079,800	$542,102,425	$590,845,711	$1,043,585	$(29,063,685)	$42,715,521		$303,197,174

	‡ No management fees are charged to Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC.
	# The fund may lend securities, through its agent, to qualified borrowers in order to earn additional income. The loans are collateralized by cash in an amount at least equal to the fair value of the securities loaned. The fair value of securities loaned is determined daily and any additional required collateral is allocated to the fund on the next business day. The remaining maturities of the securities lending transactions are considered overnight and continuous. The risk of borrower default will be borne by the fund's agent; the fund will bear the risk of loss with respect to the investment of the cash collateral. The fund received cash collateral of $28,653,680, which is invested in Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC, a limited liability company managed by an affiliate of Putnam Management. Investments in Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC are valued at its closing net asset value each business day. There are no management fees charged to Putnam Cash Collateral Pool, LLC. The rate quoted in the security description is the annualized 7-day yield at the close of the reporting period. At the close of the reporting period, the value of securities loaned amounted to $28,201,071.
	** Management fees charged to Putnam Short Term Investment Fund have been waived by Putnam Management.
	* Common stock classifications are presented at the sector level, which may differ from the fund's portfolio presentation.
	† Security was not in affiliation as of the beginning of the reporting period.
(F)	This security is valued by Putnam Management at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees. Securities are classified as Level 3 for ASC 820 based on the securities' valuation inputs.
(R)	Real Estate Investment Trust.
(S)	This security is on loan, in part or in entirety, at the close of the reporting period.
	Security valuation: Portfolio securities and other investments are valued using policies and procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. The Trustees have formed a Pricing Committee to oversee the implementation of these procedures and have delegated responsibility for valuing the fund's assets in accordance with these procedures to Putnam Management. Putnam Management has established an internal Valuation Committee that is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the pricing policies of the fund and reporting to the Pricing Committee.
	Investments (including securities sold short, if any) for which market quotations are readily available are valued at the last reported sales price on their principal exchange, or official closing price for certain markets, and are classified as Level 1 securities under ASC 820. If no sales are reported, as in the case of some securities that are traded OTC, a security is valued at its last reported bid price (ask price for securities sold short, if any) and is generally categorized as a Level 2 security.
	Investments in open-end investment companies (excluding exchange-traded funds), if any, which can be classified as Level 1 or Level 2 securities, are valued based on their net asset value. The net asset value of such investment companies equals the total value of their assets less their liabilities and divided by the number of their outstanding shares.
	Many securities markets and exchanges outside the U.S. close prior to the scheduled close of the New York Stock Exchange and therefore the closing prices for securities in such markets or on such exchanges may not fully reflect events that occur after such close but before the scheduled close of the New York Stock Exchange. Accordingly, on certain days, the fund will fair value certain foreign equity securities taking into account multiple factors including movements in the U.S. securities markets, currency valuations and comparisons to the valuation of American Depository Receipts, exchange-traded funds and futures contracts. The foreign equity securities, which would generally be classified as Level 1 securities, will be transferred to Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy when they are valued at fair value. The number of days on which fair value prices will be used will depend on market activity and it is possible that fair value prices will be used by the fund to a significant extent. Securities quoted in foreign currencies, if any, are translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate. Short-term securities with remaining maturities of 60 days or less are valued using an independent pricing service approved by the Trustees, and are classified as Level 2 securities.
	To the extent a pricing service or dealer is unable to value a security or provides a valuation that Putnam Management does not believe accurately reflects the security's fair value, the security will be valued at fair value by Putnam Management in accordance with policies and procedures approved by the Trustees. Certain investments, including certain restricted and illiquid securities and derivatives, are also valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees. These valuations consider such factors as significant market or specific security events such as interest rate or credit quality changes, various relationships with other securities, discount rates, U.S. Treasury, U.S. swap and credit yields, index levels, convexity exposures, recovery rates, sales and other multiples and resale restrictions. These securities are classified as Level 2 or as Level 3 depending on the priority of the significant inputs.
	To assess the continuing appropriateness of fair valuations, the Valuation Committee reviews and affirms the reasonableness of such valuations on a regular basis after considering all relevant information that is reasonably available. Such valuations and procedures are reviewed periodically by the Trustees. The fair value of securities is generally determined as the amount that the fund could reasonably expect to realize from an orderly disposition of such securities over a reasonable period of time. By its nature, a fair value price is a good faith estimate of the value of a security in a current sale and does not reflect an actual market price, which may be different by a material amount.

ASC 820 establishes a three-level hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. The valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of the fund's investments. The three levels are defined as follows:
Level 1: Valuations based on quoted prices for identical securities in active markets.
Level 2: Valuations based on quoted prices in markets that are not active or for which all significant inputs are observable, either directly or indirectly.
Level 3: Valuations based on inputs that are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund's net assets as of the close of the reporting period:
		Valuation inputs
Investments in securities:	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Common stocks*:
Consumer discretionary	$179,455,956	$—	$1,784,034
Energy	23,360,534	—	—
Health care	335,002,829	—	—
Industrials	15,539,301	—	150
Information technology	200,879,462	—	—
Materials	34,137,468	—	—
Real estate	66,966,476	—	—
Total common stocks	855,342,026	—	1,784,184
Convertible preferred stocks	—	—	36,635,646
Investment companies	17,945,500	—	—
Short-term investments	76,445,265	28,653,680	—
Totals by level	$949,732,791	$28,653,680	$38,419,830
* Common stock classifications are presented at the sector level, which may differ from the fund's portfolio presentation.
During the reporting period, transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 within the fair value hierarchy, if any (other than certain transfers involving non-U.S. equity securities as described in the Security valuation note above), did not represent, in the aggregate, more than 1% of the fund's net assets measured as of the end of the period. Transfers are accounted for using the end of period pricing valuation method.
The following is a reconciliation of Level 3 assets as of the close of the reporting period:

Investments in securities:	Balance as of April 30, 2017	Accrued discounts/ premiums	Realized gain/(loss)	Change in net unrealized appreciation/ (depreciation) #	Cost of purchases	Proceeds from sales	Total transfers into Level 3 †	Total transfers out of Level 3 †	Balance as of January 31, 2018
Common stocks*:
Consumer discretionary	$13,828,206	$—	$7,515,446	$1,996,576	$—	$(21,556,194)	$—	$—	$1,784,034
Industrials	131	—	—	19	—	—	—	—	150
Total common stocks	$13,828,337	$—	$7,515,446	$1,996,595	$—	$(21,556,194)	$—	$—	$1,784,184
Convertible preferred stocks	$77,311,029	—	(683,853)	(14,141,826)	—	(25,849,704)	—	—	$36,635,646
Totals	$91,139,366	$—	$6,831,593	$(12,145,231)	$—	$(47,405,898)	$—	$—	$38,419,830

* Common stock classifications are presented at the sector level, which may differ from the fund's portfolio presentation.

† Transfers during the reporting period are accounted for using the end of period market value and did not represent, in the aggregate, more than 1% of the fund's net assets measured as of the end of the period.

# Includes$(6,047,744) related to Level 3 securities still held at period end.

The table below represents quantitative information on internally priced Level 3 securities that were valued using unobservable inputs. The table excludes securities with valuations provided by a broker.

Description	Fair Value	Valuation Techniques	Unobservable Input	Range of unobservable inputs (Weighted Average)	Impact to Valuation from an Increase in Input (1)
			Liquidity discount	10%	Decrease
Private equity	$18,648,146	Market transaction price	Uncertainty discount	10%	Decrease
Private equity	$1,783,822	Comparable multiples	EV/sales multiple	1.1x-2.0x (1.518x)	Increase
			Liquidity discount	25%	Decrease
			Uncertainty discount	10%	Decrease
Private equity	$362	Market transaction price	Liquidity discount	25%	Decrease

⁽¹⁾ Expected directional change in fair value that would result from an increase in the unobservable input.

For additional information regarding the fund please see the fund's most recent annual or semiannual shareholder report filed on the Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site, www.sec.gov, or visit Putnam's Individual Investor Web site at www.putnaminvestments.com

Item 2. Controls and Procedures:

(a) The registrant's principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded, based on their evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report, that the design and operation of such procedures are generally effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by the registrant in this report is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission's rules and forms.

(b) Changes in internal control over financial reporting: Not applicable

Item 3. Exhibits:

Separate certifications for the principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are filed herewith.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Putnam Funds Trust

By (Signature and Title):

/s/ Janet C. Smith
Janet C. Smith
Principal Accounting Officer
Date: March 28, 2018

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

By (Signature and Title):

/s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz
Jonathan S. Horwitz
Principal Executive Officer
Date: March 28, 2018

By (Signature and Title):

/s/ Janet C. Smith
Janet C. Smith
Principal Financial Officer
Date: March 28, 2018