Fund · iShares MBS ETF · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-05-31Computed 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: 6.46% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31The 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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-05-31The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS | 6.53% | 6.5% |
| 2 | Freddie Mac | 1.01% | 7.5% |
| 3 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.91% | 8.5% |
| 4 | UMBS, TBA | 0.80% | 9.3% |
| 5 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.65% | 9.9% |
| 6 | UMBS, TBA | 0.62% | 10.5% |
| 7 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.53% | 11.0% |
| 8 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.52% | 11.6% |
| 9 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.51% | 12.1% |
| 10 | Fannie Mae | 0.50% | 12.6% |
| 11 | Freddie Mac | 0.48% | 13.1% |
| 12 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.44% | 13.5% |
| 13 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.44% | 14.0% |
| 14 | Fannie Mae | 0.43% | 14.4% |
| 15 | Fannie Mae | 0.42% | 14.8% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of MBB'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: MBB.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-3110,674 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 increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES | 5.66% | 6.46% | Freddie Mac | 0.34% | 0.17% |
| Government National Mortgage Association | 0.41% | 0.52% | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.26% | 0.12% |
| Government National Mortgage Association | 0.03% | 0.12% | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.12% | 0.01% |
| Government National Mortgage Association | 0.31% | 0.39% | Freddie Mac | 0.12% | 0.05% |
| Government National Mortgage Association | 0.07% | 0.14% | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.18% | 0.12% |
| Government National Mortgage Association | 0.00% | 0.07% | Fannie Mae | 0.13% | 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 2026-05-3193.54% 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
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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
0Mentions are detected across the full text of every article, so an appearance may be a passing comparison rather than the subject. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell — see the disclaimer.