Fund · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF · measured from SEC filings
IUSB holdings
IUSB reports 18,104 holdings and behaves like 377.1 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: 4.99% at a quoted market price (level 1), 77 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31The largest line in IUSB's filing is not a stock but BlackRock Liquidity TempCash Funds: Institutional Shares, a short-term position at 2.88% of net assets. Ten companies are 7.38% of the fund; the other 18,094 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, IUSB behaves like 377.1 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 1.6 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings IUSB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 177.2 at 2019-10-31 and 604.4 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 851 positions were added and 739 dropped; 10.0% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 88.15% of the portfolio, across 77 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, IUSB went from behaving like 177.2 equally weighted positions to 604.4 — 241% more, while its top ten went from 13.61% to 6.03% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 17,822 | 604.4 | 6.03% | 2.84% |
| 2026-01-31 | 17,705 | 721.6 | 5.65% | 2.32% |
| 2025-10-31 | 17,458 | 836 | 5.39% | 1.83% |
| 2025-07-31 | 17,233 | 711.9 | 5.97% | 2.26% |
| 2025-04-30 | 17,054 | 612.1 | 6.5% | 2.73% |
| 2025-01-31 | 16,849 | 576.3 | 6.67% | 2.91% |
| 2024-10-31 | 16,748 | 404.3 | 8.01% | 3.93% |
| 2024-07-31 | 16,314 | 412.4 | 7.77% | 3.95% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 16,096 | 632.4 | 7.79% | 1.76% |
| 2024-01-31 | 15,901 | 522.6 | 6.85% | 3.24% |
| 2023-10-31 | 15,468 | 566 | 6.83% | 2.91% |
| 2023-07-31 | 15,191 | 320.2 | 8.8% | 4.67% |
| 2023-04-30 | 15,122 | 283.3 | 9.73% | 4.99% |
| 2023-01-31 | 14,868 | 276.7 | 9.73% | 5.07% |
| 2022-10-31 | 14,527 | 217.2 | 10.92% | 5.87% |
| 2022-07-31 | 14,220 | 229.6 | 10.97% | 5.6% |
| 2022-04-30 | 14,251 | 156.4 | 12.62% | 7.18% |
| 2022-01-31 | 14,119 | 111.7 | 14.87% | 8.68% |
| 2021-10-31 | 13,689 | 122.1 | 14.12% | 8.3% |
| 2021-07-31 | 13,310 | 77.6 | 17.87% | 10.64% |
| 2021-04-30 | 12,887 | 83.6 | 17.49% | 10.18% |
| 2021-01-31 | 12,174 | 61.7 | 18.35% | 12.19% |
| 2020-10-31 | 10,912 | 118.6 | 14.83% | 8.46% |
| 2020-07-31 | 10,755 | 97.8 | 16.31% | 9.44% |
| 2020-04-30 | 9,831 | 164.6 | 13.61% | 6.76% |
| 2020-01-31 | 9,436 | 251.7 | 11.35% | 5.1% |
| 2019-10-31 | 8,955 | 177.2 | 13.61% | 6.38% |
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 18,104 positions in IUSB'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 | Blackrock Liquidity Tempcash | 2.89% | 2.9% |
| 2 | United States of America | 0.37% | 3.3% |
| 3 | United States of America | 0.37% | 3.6% |
| 4 | United States of America | 0.37% | 4.0% |
| 5 | United States of America | 0.37% | 4.4% |
| 6 | United States of America | 0.36% | 4.7% |
| 7 | United States of America | 0.36% | 5.1% |
| 8 | United States of America | 0.36% | 5.4% |
| 9 | United States of America | 0.35% | 5.8% |
| 10 | United States of America | 0.34% | 6.1% |
| 11 | United States of America | 0.34% | 6.5% |
| 12 | United States of America | 0.33% | 6.8% |
| 13 | United States of America | 0.33% | 7.1% |
| 14 | United States of America | 0.33% | 7.5% |
| 15 | United States of America | 0.32% | 7.8% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of IUSB'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 | 87.82% |
| Canada | 1.17% |
| United Kingdom | 1.01% |
| Cayman Islands° | 0.81% |
| Japan | 0.65% |
| France | 0.54% |
| Mexico | 0.52% |
| Netherlands° | 0.45% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of IUSB'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 0.07 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: IUSB.json · all funds.
Who borrows IUSB'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, $330m was out to 23 borrowers. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 19.6% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| BARCLAYS BANK PLC | $65m | 19.6% |
| BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | $57m | 17.3% |
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $43m | 13.1% |
| CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. | $32m | 9.6% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $23m | 7.1% |
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 IUSB has filed, with each borrower: IUSB.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-3017,665 positions became 17,777: 851 added (6.7% of the fund at the later date), 739 dropped (5.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 10.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of IUSB 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 Liquidity Tempcash | 2.32% | 2.84% | United States of America | 0.15% | 0.12% |
| United States of America | 0.10% | 0.31% | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.03% | 0.01% |
| United States of America | 0.10% | 0.31% | Federal National Mortgage Association | 0.34% | 0.31% |
| United States of America | 0.11% | 0.31% | United States of America | 0.39% | 0.37% |
| United States of America | 0.13% | 0.26% | United States of America | 0.38% | 0.36% |
| United States of America | 0.02% | 0.12% | United States of America | 0.38% | 0.36% |
New: United States of America (0.29%), United States of America (0.28%), United States of America (0.28%), Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan M (0.22%), Government National Mortgage Association (0.21%), Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan M (0.20%). Gone: United States of America (0.24%), United States of America (0.24%), United States of America (0.24%), Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan M (0.19%), United States of America (0.18%), Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan M (0.18%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| debt DBT | 74.51% |
| mortgage-backed ABS-MBS | 20.22% |
| short-term investment STIV | 4.99% |
| ABS-O ABS-O | 0.28% |
5.0% of IUSB 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 IUSB (377.1). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| ISTB iShares Core 1-5 Year USD Bond ETF | 7,405 | 365.2 | 8.76% | 2026-07-31 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| EMB iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF | 623 | 409.7 | 7.57% | 2026-07-31 |
Essays that examine IUSB
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