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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 2026-07-31
7,405 Positions reported
365.2 Effective holdings
20.3× Concentration multiple
8.76% 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: 1.56% at a quoted market price (level 1), 70 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

ISTB'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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 2026-04-30

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1United States Treasury1.00%1.0%
2United States Treasury0.98%2.0%
3United States Treasury0.97%2.9%
4United States Treasury0.92%3.9%
5United States Treasury0.89%4.8%
6United States Treasury0.86%5.6%
7BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS0.85%6.5%
8United States Treasury0.83%7.3%
9United States Treasury0.81%8.1%
10United States Treasury0.81%8.9%
11United States Treasury0.74%9.7%
12United States Treasury0.71%10.4%
13United States Treasury0.71%11.1%
14United States Treasury0.69%11.8%
15United States Treasury0.68%12.4%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of ISTB'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 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 – 2026-04

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

4.0%Last twelve months filed
17%Whole series, compounded
1.9%Best month
-2.0%Worst month

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

2026-07-31

The 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.

BorrowerOn loanShare 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 → 2026-04-30

7,016 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 increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
United States Treasury0.12%0.67% United States Treasury1.12%0.97%
United States Treasury0.15%0.57% United States Treasury0.88%0.81%
United States Treasury0.21%0.62% United States Treasury0.60%0.55%
United States Treasury0.31%0.46% United States Treasury0.66%0.63%
United States Treasury0.08%0.22% INTL BK RECON & DEVELOP0.07%0.05%
BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS0.71%0.85% CCO HLDGS LLC/CAP CORP0.02%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 DBT92.98%
mortgage-backed ABS-MBS4.84%
short-term investment STIV1.56%
ABS-O ABS-O0.61%
preferred equity EP0.01%

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

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Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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

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