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Fund · iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF · measured from SEC filings

EMB holdings

EMB reports 623 holdings and behaves like 409.7 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31
623 Positions reported
409.7 Effective holdings
1.5× Concentration multiple
7.57% 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: 1.59% at a quoted market price (level 1), 56 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

EMB's largest investment is Argentina Republic Government International Bonds at 1.1% of net assets. BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares and Ecuador Government International Bonds follow; the three together are 2.77%. Ten companies are 7.57% of the fund; the other 613 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, EMB behaves like 409.7 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 1.7 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings EMB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 345.8 at 2019-10-31 and 463.7 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 30 positions were added and 37 dropped; 7.3% of the weight moved. Mexico is the largest country at 5.66% of the portfolio, across 56 countries in the filing.

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 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, EMB went from behaving like 345.8 equally weighted positions to 463.7 — 34% more, while its top ten went from 7.11% to 6.65% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 682 463.7 6.65% 1.11%
2026-01-31 689 476.4 6.45% 1.12%
2025-10-31 662 477.5 5.95% 1.03%
2025-07-31 664 460.7 6.54% 1.26%
2025-04-30 655 478.4 5.66% 1%
2025-01-31 648 452.2 6.55% 1.02%
2024-10-31 641 460 6.13% 0.83%
2024-07-31 641 466.1 5.89% 0.91%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 632 461.8 5.7% 0.72%
2024-01-31 623 470.2 5.16% 0.7%
2023-10-31 602 458.4 5.18% 0.78%
2023-07-31 608 445.9 5.67% 1%
2023-04-30 610 453 5.41% 0.77%
2023-01-31 598 425.2 6.29% 1.19%
2022-10-31 582 422.2 6.08% 0.88%
2022-07-31 617 411 6.64% 1.26%
2022-04-30 658 415.2 6.66% 1.18%
2022-01-31 678 431.9 6.23% 0.87%
2021-10-31 600 428 5.98% 0.84%
2021-07-31 577 414.3 6.12% 0.84%
2021-04-30 560 404.7 6.27% 0.86%
2021-01-31 557 388.1 6.47% 0.84%
2020-10-31 563 378.1 6.86% 0.86%
2020-07-31 544 373.3 7.03% 0.88%
2020-04-30 526 343.3 7.5% 0.99%
2020-01-31 508 345.6 7.59% 1.23%
2019-10-31 493 345.8 7.11% 0.86%

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 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 623 positions in EMB's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: EMB.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Argentina Republic Government International Bonds1.11%1.1%
2BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES0.90%2.0%
3Ecuador Government International Bonds0.78%2.8%
4Argentina Republic Government International Bonds0.72%3.5%
5Argentina Republic Government International Bonds0.64%4.2%
6Ghana Government International Bonds0.53%4.7%
7Argentina Republic Government International Bonds0.52%5.2%
8Uruguay Government International Bonds0.52%5.7%
9EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL0.51%6.2%
10Oman Government International Bonds0.42%6.7%
11Republic of Poland Government International Bonds0.39%7.0%
12UKRAINE GOVERNMENT0.38%7.4%
13Brazil Government International Bonds0.37%7.8%
14Republic of Poland Government International Bonds0.37%8.2%
15Ecuador Government International Bonds0.35%8.5%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Mexico 5.65%
Türkiye 4.67%
Indonesia 4.38%
Brazil 3.83%
Saudi Arabia 3.68%
Poland 3.57%
Chile 3.40%
Philippines 3.37%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EMB's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

12.1%Last twelve months filed
15%Whole series, compounded
7.9%Best month
-14.1%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.30 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: EMB.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

683 positions became 676: 30 added (4.5% of the fund at the later date), 37 dropped (3.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.3%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of EMB compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES0.72%0.90% Jamaica Government International Bonds0.14%0.04%
HUNGARY0.14%0.31% Sri Lanka Government International Bonds0.15%0.05%
BENIN INTL GOV BOND0.00%0.15% Colombia Government International Bonds0.26%0.17%
REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA0.05%0.20% STATE GRID OVERSEAS INV0.27%0.20%
REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA0.02%0.14% DP WORLD LTD UAE0.11%0.04%
CN HUANENG GP HK TREASUR0.06%0.13% Abu Dhabi Government International Bonds0.17%0.11%

New: UKRAINE GOVERNMENT (0.38%), REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR (0.31%), FED REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL (0.28%), REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR (0.26%), ROMANIA (0.23%), REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA (0.18%). Gone: UKRAINE GOVERNMENT (0.22%), Oman Government International Bonds (0.18%), REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR (0.17%), Turkiye Government International Bonds (0.17%), Republic of Kenya Government International Bonds (0.17%), KSA SUKUK LTD (0.17%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

98.41% debt, 1.59% short-term investment as filed; 1.6% 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 EMB (409.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
IUSB iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF 18,104 377.1 7.38% 2026-07-31
USTB VictoryShares Short-Term Bond ETF 1,059 382 10.65% 2026-06-30
BSCR Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF 495 383.2 6.69% 2026-05-31
EBND State Street(R) SPDR(R) Bloomberg Emerging Markets Local Bond ETF 627 393.6 6.22% 2026-06-30
DFSD Dimensional Short-Duration Fixed Income ETF 1,603 402 9.16% 2026-07-31
BAB Invesco Taxable Municipal Bond ETF 1,867 411.6 8.74% 2026-05-31
MMIT NYLIM MacKay Muni Intermediate ETF 855 412.4 8.41% 2026-07-31
CGMS Capital Group U.S. Multi-Sector Income ETF 1,493 422.4 6.76% 2026-06-30
BKAG BNY Mellon Core Bond ETF 5,130 427.3 7.38% 2026-07-31
IBDS iShares iBonds Dec 2027 Term Corporate ETF 660 427.5 7.11% 2026-07-31

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