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 2026-07-31Computed 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 2026-07-31EMB'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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentina Republic Government International Bonds | 1.11% | 1.1% |
| 2 | BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES | 0.90% | 2.0% |
| 3 | Ecuador Government International Bonds | 0.78% | 2.8% |
| 4 | Argentina Republic Government International Bonds | 0.72% | 3.5% |
| 5 | Argentina Republic Government International Bonds | 0.64% | 4.2% |
| 6 | Ghana Government International Bonds | 0.53% | 4.7% |
| 7 | Argentina Republic Government International Bonds | 0.52% | 5.2% |
| 8 | Uruguay Government International Bonds | 0.52% | 5.7% |
| 9 | EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL | 0.51% | 6.2% |
| 10 | Oman Government International Bonds | 0.42% | 6.7% |
| 11 | Republic of Poland Government International Bonds | 0.39% | 7.0% |
| 12 | UKRAINE GOVERNMENT | 0.38% | 7.4% |
| 13 | Brazil Government International Bonds | 0.37% | 7.8% |
| 14 | Republic of Poland Government International Bonds | 0.37% | 8.2% |
| 15 | Ecuador Government International Bonds | 0.35% | 8.5% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of EMB's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| 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 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of EMB's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
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 → 2026-04-30683 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES | 0.72% | 0.90% | Jamaica Government International Bonds | 0.14% | 0.04% |
| HUNGARY | 0.14% | 0.31% | Sri Lanka Government International Bonds | 0.15% | 0.05% |
| BENIN INTL GOV BOND | 0.00% | 0.15% | Colombia Government International Bonds | 0.26% | 0.17% |
| REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA | 0.05% | 0.20% | STATE GRID OVERSEAS INV | 0.27% | 0.20% |
| REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA | 0.02% | 0.14% | DP WORLD LTD UAE | 0.11% | 0.04% |
| CN HUANENG GP HK TREASUR | 0.06% | 0.13% | Abu Dhabi Government International Bonds | 0.17% | 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 2026-07-3198.41% 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
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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 |
Essays that examine EMB
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