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iShares Ultra Short-Term Bond ETF

$50.26-0.28% vs prior close
505152-WK

Price through Oct 1 · Flows through Sep 30. Figures use the latest available records, not a live quote. Fund details retrieved Oct 1. Holdings snapshot retrieved Oct 1.

The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal circumstances, at least 80% of its net assets in a portfolio of U.S. dollar-denominated investment-grade fixed- and floating-rate debt securities that are rated BBB- or higher by S&P Global Ratings and/or Fitch Ratings, Inc. ("Fitch"), or Baa3 or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's"), or, if unrated, determined by the fund's management team to be of equivalent quality.

Price & daily flows
50.750.550.450.26DAILY NET FLOWOct 1Jan 30Jun 1Oct 1

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1Y SHOWN · NET +$2.5B OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$215M of net inflows over the past month, about 2.4% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned -0.6% so far this year. At 0.080% a year, no lower reported fee appears among the alternatives shown here.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$8.8Bassets under management
0.080%expense ratio · $8 per $10,000 a year
+$215Mnet flow, trailing month
1.8Mavg daily volume, 30 days
371holdings · US-domiciled
2013listed December 11, 2013 · beta 0.01
The book at a glance
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CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS THE CHANGE IN THE LATEST AVAILABLE SNAPSHOT · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1—NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL GLOBAL FUNDING MTN 144A0.77%———
2—TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORP MTN0.74%———
3—PACIFIC LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING II MTN 144A0.72%———
4—MORGAN STANLEY PRIVATE BANK NA0.72%———
5—SALESFORCE INC0.72%———
6—NEW YORK LIFE GLOBAL FUNDING MTN 144A0.72%———
7—HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC 3.9 03/16/20280.71%———
8—ATHENE GLOBAL FUNDING MTN 144A0.70%———
9—MASSMUTUAL GLOBAL FUNDING II MTN 144A0.67%———
10—UBS AG (STAMFORD BRANCH) MTN0.66%———
11—ATHENE GLOBAL FUNDING MTN 144A0.65%———
12—EQUITABLE AMERICA GLOBAL FUNDING MTN 144A0.63%———
13—COOPERATIEVE RABOBANK UA (NEW YORK MTN0.63%———
14—HAROT_26-2 A2A0.56%———
15—TREASURY NOTE0.55%———

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Sector weights
Cash and/or Derivatives44.77%
Financial Institutions23.19%
Industrial16.26%
ABS11.48%
Treasury2.32%
Utility1.37%
Agency0.37%
Local Authority0.3%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States72.57%
Canada5.58%
Australia4.82%
Germany3.98%
United Kingdom2.37%
Japan2.16%
New Zealand1.54%
France1.32%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week-0.3%
1 month-0.2%
3 months-0.3%
6 months-0.7%
YTD-0.6%
1 year-0.6%
3 years—

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week+$1M
1 month+$215M
3 months+$1.4B
YTD+$2.1B
1 year+$2.5B

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJulAugSep
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
1%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
1%realized volatility, 1 year
-1.0%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-1.0%latest close versus that peak

The top holding is 1.6% of the book; the top ten carry 10%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 143 equally-weighted positions.

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

Options tape
—calls · latest snapshot
12puts · latest snapshot
—put/call ratio
2.8Mshares traded
The case against ICSH

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat ICSH on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
STIP iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF0.03%$16.3B+$489M-5bp on fee · 2× the assets · +$489M in over the monthHead-to-head
IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF0.05%$122.8B+$2.3B-3bp on fee · 14× the assets · +$2.3B in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.7B+$575M-4bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$575M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.6B+$412M-4bp on fee · 2× the assets · +$412M in over the monthHead-to-head
MUB iShares National Muni Bond ETF0.05%$46B+$2B-3bp on fee · 5× the assets · +$2B in over the monthHead-to-head
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