Fund · iShares J.P. Morgan EM Local Currency Bond ETF · measured from SEC filings
LEMB holdings
LEMB reports 487 holdings and behaves like 254.9 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: 0.13% at a quoted market price (level 1), 21 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31LEMB's largest investment is Uruguay Government International Bond at 1.34% of net assets. Dominican Republic International Bond and Serbia Treasury Bonds follow; the three together are 4%. Ten companies are 11.7% of the fund; the other 477 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, LEMB behaves like 254.9 holdings against a median of 236.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings LEMB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 124.7 at 2019-10-31 and 264.8 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 13 positions were added and 13 dropped; 7.1% of the weight moved. China is the largest country at 15.35% of the portfolio, across 21 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, LEMB went from behaving like 124.7 equally weighted positions to 264.8 — 112% more, while its top ten went from 19.04% to 10.84% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 480 | 264.8 | 10.84% | 1.38% |
| 2026-01-31 | 483 | 270 | 10.83% | 1.39% |
| 2025-10-31 | 442 | 255.9 | 11.08% | 1.85% |
| 2025-07-31 | 423 | 246.6 | 11.67% | 1.84% |
| 2025-04-30 | 388 | 237.1 | 11.45% | 1.8% |
| 2025-01-31 | 380 | 211 | 13.5% | 2% |
| 2024-10-31 | 380 | 206.5 | 13.97% | 2.15% |
| 2024-07-31 | 353 | 192.9 | 14.1% | 2.24% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 333 | 181.8 | 14.78% | 2.31% |
| 2024-01-31 | 340 | 170.2 | 15.92% | 2.63% |
| 2023-10-31 | 339 | 142.4 | 17.57% | 4.52% |
| 2023-07-31 | 379 | 172.6 | 16.24% | 2.87% |
| 2023-04-30 | 353 | 163.2 | 17.12% | 2.75% |
| 2023-01-31 | 343 | 114.6 | 21.28% | 4.48% |
| 2022-10-31 | 297 | 109.5 | 21.43% | 4.5% |
| 2022-07-31 | 281 | 117.3 | 20.14% | 4.52% |
| 2022-04-30 | 283 | 130.6 | 19.99% | 3.22% |
| 2022-01-31 | 295 | 134.2 | 19.89% | 2.98% |
| 2021-10-31 | 283 | 133.3 | 18.92% | 3.12% |
| 2021-07-31 | 276 | 129.5 | 19.23% | 3.08% |
| 2021-04-30 | 264 | 135.6 | 18.09% | 2.96% |
| 2021-01-31 | 252 | 129.9 | 18.41% | 3.1% |
| 2020-10-31 | 242 | 132.2 | 17.62% | 3.12% |
| 2020-07-31 | 237 | 129.5 | 18.86% | 3.15% |
| 2020-04-30 | 219 | 125.3 | 19.06% | 2.94% |
| 2020-01-31 | 220 | 118.9 | 20.1% | 3.21% |
| 2019-10-31 | 219 | 124.7 | 19.04% | 2.39% |
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 487 positions in LEMB's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: LEMB.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | REPUBLICA ORIENT URUGUAY | 1.38% | 1.4% |
| 2 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | 1.38% | 2.8% |
| 3 | SERBIA TREASURY BONDS | 1.36% | 4.1% |
| 4 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | 1.12% | 5.2% |
| 5 | REPUBLICA ORIENT URUGUAY | 1.11% | 6.4% |
| 6 | TURKIYE GOVERNMENT BOND | 1.09% | 7.4% |
| 7 | REPUBLICA ORIENT URUGUAY | 1.04% | 8.5% |
| 8 | SERBIA TREASURY BONDS | 1.01% | 9.5% |
| 9 | SERBIA TREASURY BONDS | 0.86% | 10.4% |
| 10 | TURKIYE GOVERNMENT BOND | 0.79% | 11.2% |
| 11 | SERBIA TREASURY BONDS | 0.77% | 11.9% |
| 12 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | 0.77% | 12.7% |
| 13 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | 0.76% | 13.5% |
| 14 | NOTA DO TESOURO NACIONAL | 0.75% | 14.2% |
| 15 | TURKIYE GOVERNMENT BOND | 0.72% | 14.9% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of LEMB's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of LEMB'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 — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: LEMB.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30432 positions became 432: 13 added (1.1% of the fund at the later date), 13 dropped (1.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of LEMB 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERBIA TREASURY BONDS | 0.95% | 1.36% | SERBIA TREASURY BONDS | 0.91% | 0.77% |
| HUNGARY GOVERNMENT BOND | 0.09% | 0.23% | SERBIA TREASURY BONDS | 1.13% | 1.01% |
| POLAND GOVERNMENT BOND | 0.24% | 0.37% | SERBIA TREASURY BONDS | 0.98% | 0.86% |
| POLAND GOVERNMENT BOND | 0.26% | 0.39% | CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND | 0.29% | 0.19% |
| HUNGARY GOVERNMENT BOND | 0.39% | 0.52% | CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND | 0.26% | 0.16% |
| TITULOS DE TESORERIA | 0.22% | 0.33% | CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND | 0.21% | 0.11% |
New: REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY (0.25%), REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY (0.18%), REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY (0.12%), BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES (0.09%), THAILAND GOVERNMENT BOND (0.07%), THAILAND GOVERNMENT BOND (0.07%). Gone: HUNGARY GOVERNMENT BOND (0.16%), ROMANIA GOVERNMENT BOND (0.15%), MEX BONOS DESARR FIX RT (0.13%), POLAND GOVERNMENT BOND (0.13%), TITULOS DE TESORERIA (0.12%), CHINA GOVERNMENT BOND (0.11%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-3199.87% debt, 0.13% short-term investment as filed; 0.1% 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 LEMB (254.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UITB VictoryShares Core Intermediate Bond ETF | 1,182 | 239.6 | 15.5% | 2026-06-30 |
| DUSB Dimensional Ultrashort Fixed Income ETF | 571 | 240.9 | 9.21% | 2026-07-31 |
| AVSF Avantis Short-Term Fixed Income ETF | 518 | 252.4 | 10.17% | 2026-05-31 |
| KORP American Century Diversified Corporate Bond ETF | 360 | 253.5 | 8.82% | 2026-05-31 |
| VSDB Vanguard Short Duration Bond ETF | 1,317 | 254.1 | 13.95% | 2026-06-30 |
| FLTR VanEck IG Floating Rate ETF | 464 | 260.2 | 9.38% | 2026-07-31 |
| BSV Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund | 3,186 | 260.9 | 8.45% | 2026-06-30 |
| JHCR John Hancock Core Bond ETF | 962 | 262.2 | 12.88% | 2026-06-30 |
| BLV Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund | 2,984 | 263 | 11.11% | 2026-06-30 |
| JPHY JPMorgan Active High Yield ETF | 532 | 266 | 9.91% | 2026-05-31 |
Essays that examine LEMB
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