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BSV holdings

BSV reports 3,186 holdings and behaves like 260.9 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-06-30. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 28 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-06-30
3,186 Positions reported
260.9 Effective holdings
12.2× Concentration multiple
8.45% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 0.27% at a quoted market price (level 1), 29 issuer countries, 0.28% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-06-30

BSV's largest investment is US Treasury N/B at 1.12% of net assets. US Treasury N/B and US Treasury N/B follow; the three together are 2.88%. Ten companies are 8.45% of the fund; the other 3,176 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, BSV behaves like 260.9 holdings against a median of 236.4 — close to the median. Across 28 quarterly filings BSV has become less concentrated: it behaved like 204.8 at 2019-09-30 and 260.9 at 2026-06-30. Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 305 positions were added and 277 dropped; 12.0% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, BSV went from behaving like 204.8 equally weighted positions to 260.9 — 27% more, while its top ten went from 12.74% to 8.45% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-06-30 3,186 260.9 8.45% 1.13%
2026-03-31 3,157 254.5 8.65% 1.18%
2025-12-31 3,108 264.6 8.01% 0.89%
2025-09-30 2,948 275 7.74% 0.93%
2025-06-30 2,912 273.3 8.04% 1.14%
2025-03-31 2,870 268.4 8.25% 1.53%
2024-12-31 2,780 279.1 7.49% 0.89%
2024-09-30 2,751 281.2 7.27% 0.84%
Earlier filings (20 more, back to 2019-09-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-06-30 2,734 289.3 7.15% 0.91%
2024-03-31 2,694 293.3 7.23% 1.09%
2023-12-31 2,669 284.5 7.82% 1.34%
2023-09-30 2,723 297.9 7.06% 0.77%
2023-06-30 2,711 271.2 9.73% 1.26%
2023-03-31 2,669 241.1 11.29% 1.48%
2022-12-31 2,615 228.3 12.32% 1.99%
2022-09-30 2,668 241 11.65% 2.01%
2022-06-30 2,652 218.4 13.27% 2.07%
2022-03-31 2,637 181.5 16.18% 3.38%
2021-12-31 2,598 181.6 16.29% 3.37%
2021-09-30 2,663 179.5 16.58% 3.33%
2021-06-30 2,672 215.6 14.28% 1.88%
2021-03-31 2,677 222.6 13.77% 1.98%
2020-12-31 2,644 242.7 12.17% 1.66%
2020-09-30 2,674 228.1 12.45% 1.81%
2020-06-30 2,620 226.4 12.2% 1.82%
2020-03-31 2,468 201.9 13.08% 2.32%
2019-12-31 2,451 200.8 13.04% 2.52%
2019-09-30 2,442 204.8 12.74% 2.24%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-06-30

The 15 largest of 3,186 positions in BSV's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1United States Treasury Note/Bond1.13%1.1%
2United States Treasury Note/Bond0.90%2.0%
3United States Treasury Note/Bond0.89%2.9%
4United States Treasury Note/Bond0.82%3.7%
5United States Treasury Note/Bond0.81%4.5%
6United States Treasury Note/Bond0.80%5.3%
7United States Treasury Note/Bond0.79%6.1%
8United States Treasury Note/Bond0.78%6.9%
9United States Treasury Note/Bond0.77%7.7%
10United States Treasury Note/Bond0.76%8.5%
11United States Treasury Note/Bond0.76%9.2%
12United States Treasury Note/Bond0.76%10.0%
13United States Treasury Note/Bond0.76%10.7%
14United States Treasury Note/Bond0.75%11.5%
15United States Treasury Note/Bond0.74%12.2%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-06-30

Share of BSV's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 90.81%
Not stated in filing 2.61%
Canada 1.56%
United Kingdom 1.08%
Japan 0.85%
Germany 0.68%
Australia 0.25%
Ireland° 0.21%

Returns the fund reported

2019-07 – 2026-06

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of BSV's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

3.0%Last twelve months filed
15%Whole series, compounded
1.8%Best month
-1.9%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.03 percentage points over 84 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: BSV.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30

3,157 positions became 3,185: 305 added (8.9% of the fund at the later date), 277 dropped (8.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 12.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of BSV compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-03-312026-06-30Largest decreases2026-03-312026-06-30
United States Treasury Note/Bond0.01%0.38% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.74%0.11%
United States Treasury Note/Bond0.46%0.82% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.45%0.10%
United States Treasury Note/Bond0.16%0.47% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.81%0.56%
United States Treasury Note/Bond0.23%0.42% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.80%0.70%
United States Treasury Note/Bond0.42%0.50% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.41%0.33%
United States Treasury Note/Bond0.29%0.37% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.40%0.33%

New: United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.79%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.71%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.69%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.67%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.57%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.56%). Gone: United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.74%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.65%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.57%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.55%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.53%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.49%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-06-30

99.73% debt, 0.27% short-term investment as filed; 0.3% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of BSV (260.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
AVSF Avantis Short-Term Fixed Income ETF 518 252.4 10.17% 2026-05-31
KORP American Century Diversified Corporate Bond ETF 360 253.5 8.82% 2026-05-31
VSDB Vanguard Short Duration Bond ETF 1,317 254.1 13.95% 2026-06-30
LEMB iShares J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF 487 254.9 11.7% 2026-07-31
FLTR VanEck IG Floating Rate ETF 464 260.2 9.38% 2026-07-31
JHCR John Hancock Core Bond ETF 962 262.2 12.88% 2026-06-30
BLV Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund 2,984 263 11.11% 2026-06-30
JPHY JPMorgan Active High Yield ETF 532 266 9.91% 2026-05-31
HMOP Hartford Municipal Opportunities ETF 624 271.2 10.03% 2026-07-31
JPST JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 805 271.6 10.65% 2026-05-31

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