Fund · iShares Core 1-5 Year USD Bond ETF · measured from SEC filings
ISTB holdings
ISTB reports 7,405 holdings and behaves like 365.2 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: 1.56% at a quoted market price (level 1), 70 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31ISTB's largest investment is U.S. Treasury Notes at 0.99% of net assets. U.S. Treasury Notes and U.S. Treasury Notes follow; the three together are 2.93%. Ten companies are 8.76% of the fund; the other 7,395 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, ISTB behaves like 365.2 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 1.5 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings ISTB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 231 at 2019-10-31 and 351 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 641 positions were added and 605 dropped; 10.1% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 82.82% of the portfolio, across 70 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, ISTB went from behaving like 231 equally weighted positions to 351 — 52% more, while its top ten went from 14.45% to 8.92% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 7,056 | 351 | 8.92% | 1% |
| 2026-01-31 | 7,021 | 355.8 | 8.89% | 1.12% |
| 2025-10-31 | 7,002 | 362.8 | 8.58% | 1.03% |
| 2025-07-31 | 6,883 | 364.9 | 8.08% | 1.07% |
| 2025-04-30 | 6,662 | 366.9 | 7.84% | 1.2% |
| 2025-01-31 | 6,503 | 373.2 | 8.07% | 1.04% |
| 2024-10-31 | 6,274 | 361.6 | 8.15% | 0.99% |
| 2024-07-31 | 6,055 | 357.3 | 8.6% | 1.38% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 5,891 | 385.7 | 7.77% | 0.96% |
| 2024-01-31 | 5,850 | 369.5 | 8.96% | 1.05% |
| 2023-10-31 | 5,628 | 356.3 | 9.4% | 1.36% |
| 2023-07-31 | 5,475 | 361.5 | 9.44% | 1.53% |
| 2023-04-30 | 5,558 | 308.9 | 10.95% | 2.84% |
| 2023-01-31 | 5,504 | 280.4 | 11.26% | 3.66% |
| 2022-10-31 | 5,211 | 262.2 | 12.37% | 3.6% |
| 2022-07-31 | 5,012 | 171.8 | 16.43% | 4.3% |
| 2022-04-30 | 4,985 | 159.7 | 16.89% | 4.53% |
| 2022-01-31 | 4,991 | 142.1 | 20.01% | 4.49% |
| 2021-10-31 | 5,072 | 138.9 | 19.64% | 4.58% |
| 2021-07-31 | 4,834 | 228.9 | 13.64% | 3.81% |
| 2021-04-30 | 4,803 | 305.9 | 11.55% | 2.26% |
| 2021-01-31 | 4,816 | 286.6 | 11.59% | 3.15% |
| 2020-10-31 | 4,880 | 241.5 | 13.26% | 3.31% |
| 2020-07-31 | 4,799 | 219.7 | 15.09% | 3.09% |
| 2020-04-30 | 4,304 | 177.2 | 16.9% | 3.71% |
| 2020-01-31 | 4,331 | 212.9 | 15.2% | 3.54% |
| 2019-10-31 | 3,987 | 231 | 14.45% | 2.46% |
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 7,405 positions in ISTB'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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 1.00% | 1.0% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.98% | 2.0% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.97% | 2.9% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 0.92% | 3.9% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.89% | 4.8% |
| 6 | United States Treasury | 0.86% | 5.6% |
| 7 | BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS | 0.85% | 6.5% |
| 8 | United States Treasury | 0.83% | 7.3% |
| 9 | United States Treasury | 0.81% | 8.1% |
| 10 | United States Treasury | 0.81% | 8.9% |
| 11 | United States Treasury | 0.74% | 9.7% |
| 12 | United States Treasury | 0.71% | 10.4% |
| 13 | United States Treasury | 0.71% | 11.1% |
| 14 | United States Treasury | 0.69% | 11.8% |
| 15 | United States Treasury | 0.68% | 12.4% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of ISTB's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 82.46% |
| Not stated in filing | 2.34% |
| Canada | 1.71% |
| United Kingdom | 1.40% |
| Cayman Islands° | 1.20% |
| Japan | 1.08% |
| France | 0.83% |
| South Korea | 0.60% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of ISTB'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 0.03 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: ISTB.json · all funds.
Who borrows ISTB's shares
2026-07-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $20m was out to 17 borrowers. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 21.4% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| BARCLAYS BANK PLC | $4m | 21.4% |
| BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | $4m | 18.9% |
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $2m | 10.8% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $2m | 9.1% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $1m | 5.9% |
The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter ISTB has filed, with each borrower: ISTB.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-307,016 positions became 7,052: 641 added (7.3% of the fund at the later date), 605 dropped (8.8% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 10.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of ISTB 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States Treasury | 0.12% | 0.67% | United States Treasury | 1.12% | 0.97% |
| United States Treasury | 0.15% | 0.57% | United States Treasury | 0.88% | 0.81% |
| United States Treasury | 0.21% | 0.62% | United States Treasury | 0.60% | 0.55% |
| United States Treasury | 0.31% | 0.46% | United States Treasury | 0.66% | 0.63% |
| United States Treasury | 0.08% | 0.22% | INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP | 0.07% | 0.05% |
| BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS | 0.71% | 0.85% | CCO HLDGS LLC/CAP CORP | 0.02% | 0.01% |
New: United States Treasury (0.89%), United States Treasury (0.54%), United States Treasury (0.51%), United States Treasury (0.46%), United States Treasury (0.33%), United States Treasury (0.26%). Gone: United States Treasury (0.64%), United States Treasury (0.54%), United States Treasury (0.51%), United States Treasury (0.50%), United States Treasury (0.46%), United States Treasury (0.43%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| debt DBT | 92.98% |
| mortgage-backed ABS-MBS | 4.84% |
| short-term investment STIV | 1.56% |
| ABS-O ABS-O | 0.61% |
| preferred equity EP | 0.01% |
1.6% of ISTB is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.0% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; 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 ISTB (365.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSCU Invesco BulletShares 2030 Corporate Bond ETF | 445 | 343.5 | 7.88% | 2026-05-31 |
| CGSM Capital Group Short Duration Municipal Income ETF | 1,010 | 344.3 | 9.45% | 2026-06-30 |
| EMHY iShares J.P. Morgan EM High Yield Bond ETF | 691 | 344.5 | 9.42% | 2026-07-31 |
| BSCS Invesco BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF | 468 | 352.4 | 7.83% | 2026-05-31 |
| PHYL PGIM Active High Yield Bond ETF | 788 | 353.2 | 8.3% | 2026-05-29 |
| TAFM AB Tax-Aware Intermediate Municipal ETF | 580 | 373.9 | 7.22% | 2026-05-31 |
| CORP PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund | 1,458 | 376 | 10.93% | 2026-06-30 |
| 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 |
Essays that examine ISTB
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