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MBB holdings

MBB reports 11,146 holdings and behaves like 187.7 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31
11,146 Positions reported
187.7 Effective holdings
59.4× Concentration multiple
12.45% 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: 6.46% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

The largest line in MBB's filing is not a stock but BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares, a short-term position at 6.77% of net assets. Ten companies are 12.45% of the fund; the other 11,136 share the rest. Among the 15 mortgage-backed funds measured here, MBB behaves like 187.7 holdings against a median of 157.5 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings MBB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 72.8 at 2019-11-30 and 187.7 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 100 positions were added and 82 dropped; 9.1% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable mortgage-backed funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, MBB went from behaving like 72.8 equally weighted positions to 187.7 — 158% more, while its top ten went from 19.28% to 12.45% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 11,146 187.7 12.45% 6.46%
2026-02-28 11,152 230.2 11.23% 5.66%
2025-11-30 11,185 352.4 9.56% 4.15%
2025-08-31 11,377 282.9 9.82% 4.99%
2025-05-31 11,291 333 9.18% 4.4%
2025-02-28 11,232 306.3 9.83% 4.59%
2024-11-30 11,149 307.1 9.82% 4.55%
2024-08-31 10,973 281.6 10.68% 4.77%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 10,891 274.2 10.96% 4.77%
2024-02-29 10,771 344.8 10.23% 3.78%
2023-11-30 10,746 189.4 12.75% 6.18%
2023-08-31 10,622 158.7 13.96% 6.85%
2023-05-31 10,535 101.5 16.21% 9.04%
2023-02-28 10,382 105.7 16.75% 8.71%
2022-11-30 10,292 113.2 16.51% 8.31%
2022-08-31 9,742 91.2 19.57% 9.24%
2022-05-31 9,716 90.3 20.28% 9.08%
2022-02-28 9,803 45 27.14% 13.72%
2021-11-30 9,872 31.9 32.73% 16.45%
2021-08-31 9,715 30.2 32.75% 16.88%
2021-05-31 9,757 36.5 29.59% 15.48%
2021-02-28 9,779 33.4 27.8% 16.53%
2020-11-30 9,451 29.5 29.7% 17.58%
2020-08-31 9,223 28.2 30.19% 17.61%
2020-05-31 9,102 46.6 24.68% 13.6%
2020-02-29 9,223 54.7 22.95% 12.46%
2019-11-30 8,751 72.8 19.28% 10.85%

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 2026-05-31

The 15 largest of 11,146 positions in MBB'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
1BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS6.53%6.5%
2Freddie Mac1.01%7.5%
3Government National Mortgage Association0.91%8.5%
4UMBS, TBA0.80%9.3%
5Government National Mortgage Association0.65%9.9%
6UMBS, TBA0.62%10.5%
7Government National Mortgage Association0.53%11.0%
8Government National Mortgage Association0.52%11.6%
9Government National Mortgage Association0.51%12.1%
10Fannie Mae0.50%12.6%
11Freddie Mac0.48%13.1%
12Government National Mortgage Association0.44%13.5%
13Government National Mortgage Association0.44%14.0%
14Fannie Mae0.43%14.4%
15Fannie Mae0.42%14.8%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

6.8%Last twelve months filed
6%Whole series, compounded
5.3%Best month
-5.0%Worst month

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: MBB.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

10,674 positions became 10,692: 100 added (7.6% of the fund at the later date), 82 dropped (5.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 9.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of MBB compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES5.66%6.46% Freddie Mac0.34%0.17%
Government National Mortgage Association0.41%0.52% Government National Mortgage Association0.26%0.12%
Government National Mortgage Association0.03%0.12% Government National Mortgage Association0.12%0.01%
Government National Mortgage Association0.31%0.39% Freddie Mac0.12%0.05%
Government National Mortgage Association0.07%0.14% Government National Mortgage Association0.18%0.12%
Government National Mortgage Association0.00%0.07% Fannie Mae0.13%0.09%

New: Government National Mortgage Association (0.90%), UMBS, TBA (0.79%), Government National Mortgage Association (0.64%), UMBS, TBA (0.61%), Government National Mortgage Association (0.44%), UMBS, TBA (0.32%). Gone: Government National Mortgage Association (0.96%), UMBS, TBA (0.55%), Government National Mortgage Association (0.51%), UMBS, TBA (0.48%), Government National Mortgage Association (0.44%), UMBS, TBA (0.34%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

93.54% mortgage-backed, 6.46% short-term investment as filed; 6.5% 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, mortgage-backed funds

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Every measured mortgage-backed fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of MBB (187.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
FSEC Fidelity Investment Grade Securitized ETF 1,075 94.2 27.76% 2026-05-31
CRUX Columbia Core Bond ETF 477 115.9 18.12% 2026-06-30
HTRB Hartford Total Return Bond ETF 1,766 139.7 21.98% 2026-07-31
SPMB State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 2,701 157.5 12.96% 2026-06-30
EVMO Eaton Vance Mortgage Opportunities ETF 717 173.4 13.88% 2026-06-30
JMTG JPMorgan Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF 2,556 295.6 11.54% 2026-05-31
CARY Angel Oak Income ETF 794 296.5 11.07% 2026-07-31
JPIE JPMorgan Income ETF 2,539 306.4 12.99% 2026-05-31
VMBS Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund 5,113 326.7 7.69% 2026-05-31
SMBS Schwab Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF 4,197 984.5 4.35% 2026-05-31

Essays that examine MBB

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