257 essays 1,087 funds measured independent · not paid by any fund or issuer we cover

Fund · iShares Short Maturity Municipal Bond Active ETF · measured from SEC filings

MEAR holdings

MEAR reports 347 holdings and behaves like 142.8 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
347 Positions reported
142.8 Effective holdings
2.4× Concentration multiple
16.92% 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: 0.01% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

MEAR's largest investment is Parish Of St. James, Series 2010b-1 at 2.26% of net assets. Iowa Finance Authority, Series 2021 and Main Street Natural Gas Inc, Series 2023a follow; the three together are 6.4%. Ten companies are 16.92% of the fund; the other 337 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, MEAR behaves like 142.8 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 1.7 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings MEAR has become less concentrated: it behaved like 74.4 at 2019-10-31 and 142 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 63 positions were added and 57 dropped; 24.0% of the weight moved.

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

27

Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, MEAR went from behaving like 74.4 equally weighted positions to 142 — 91% more, while its top ten went from 26.62% to 17.08% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 349 142 17.08% 2.27%
2026-01-31 343 142.3 17.1% 2.22%
2025-10-31 325 129.3 18.39% 2.46%
2025-07-31 317 129.1 17.47% 2.55%
2025-04-30 296 120.8 19.07% 2.89%
2025-01-31 247 85.9 24.82% 4.13%
2024-10-31 220 81.4 24.72% 4.29%
2024-07-31 214 74.1 27.26% 4.17%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 177 54.7 34.62% 4.77%
2024-01-31 152 54.5 34.64% 4.76%
2023-10-31 164 55.4 34.39% 4.82%
2023-07-31 144 52.3 34.77% 5.18%
2023-04-30 139 49.1 36.43% 5.76%
2023-01-31 152 59.2 30.61% 5.35%
2022-10-31 171 67.3 28.71% 4.29%
2022-07-31 163 83.1 23.6% 3.06%
2022-04-30 163 83.9 23.48% 3.14%
2022-01-31 153 74 26.3% 4.2%
2021-10-31 153 67.1 29.63% 3.43%
2021-07-31 154 68 28.26% 4.18%
2021-04-30 173 86.4 22.73% 3.41%
2021-01-31 166 82.9 22.88% 3.76%
2020-10-31 172 82 23.74% 3.4%
2020-07-31 160 81.1 23.7% 3.29%
2020-04-30 139 74.7 25.89% 3.34%
2020-01-31 145 74.3 26.62% 3.83%
2019-10-31 138 74.4 26.62% 4.07%

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 347 positions in MEAR's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: MEAR.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Parish of St James2.27%2.3%
2Iowa Finance Authority2.21%4.5%
3Main Street Natural Gas, Inc.1.95%6.4%
4PEFA, Inc.1.81%8.2%
5Texas Municipal Gas Acquisition & Supply Corp. IV1.75%10.0%
6City of Burlington1.64%11.6%
7County of Allen1.51%13.1%
8Kentucky Public Energy Authority1.42%14.6%
9Connecticut Housing Finance Authority1.27%15.8%
10Loudoun County Economic Development Authority1.25%17.1%
11South Dakota Housing Development Authority1.15%18.2%
12New York State Housing Finance Agency1.04%19.3%
13Indianapolis Local Public Improvement Bond Bank1.03%20.3%
14New Mexico Municipal Energy Acquisition Authority1.01%21.3%
15Mississippi Business Finance Corp.0.99%22.3%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

3.5%Last twelve months filed
14%Whole series, compounded
0.8%Best month
-0.7%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.05 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: MEAR.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

343 positions became 349: 63 added (21.2% of the fund at the later date), 57 dropped (21.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 24.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of MEAR compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Illinois Finance Authority0.11%0.96% BlackRock Liquidity Funds0.62%0.00%
Wyoming Community Development Authority0.39%0.67% Wisconsin Health & Educational Facilities Authority0.70%0.15%
Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp.0.44%0.65% New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secu0.33%0.03%
County of Allen1.39%1.51% Industrial Development Board of the City of Mobile Alabama0.66%0.36%
Parish of St James2.22%2.27% Louisiana Local Government Environmental Facilities & Co0.44%0.15%
Iowa Finance Authority2.16%2.21% New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secu0.20%0.01%

New: South Dakota Housing Development Authority (1.15%), Mississippi Business Finance Corp. (0.99%), Mississippi Business Finance Corp. (0.92%), Maryland Economic Development Corp. (0.80%), California Community Choice Financing Authority (0.79%), Tarrant County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp. (0.75%). Gone: City of Houston Combined Utility System (1.65%), Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp. (0.94%), New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority (0.90%), Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority (0.80%), University of Colorado Hospital Authority (0.78%), New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority (0.74%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

64.12% debt, 35.88% short-term investment as filed; 0.0% 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

10

Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of MEAR (142.8). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
CORB AB Core Bond ETF 705 131.5 21.09% 2026-05-31
BSJS Invesco BulletShares 2028 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 193 137.7 15.77% 2026-05-31
JMST JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF 1,892 138.5 13.59% 2026-05-31
FPE First Trust Preferred Securities and Income ETF 259 140.9 15.09% 2026-07-31
FIXD First Trust Smith Opportunistic Fixed Income ETF 489 141.5 19.97% 2026-05-31
FLCB Franklin U.S. Core Bond ETF 599 150.3 19.03% 2026-06-30
MYCH State Street(R) My2028 Corporate Bond ETF 346 151.4 14.91% 2026-05-31
PTRB PGIM Total Return Bond ETF 1,222 155.6 * 19.68% 2026-05-29
MINT PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1,016 158.4 13.16% 2026-06-30
NBSD Neuberger Short Duration Income ETF 1,063 158.5 * 15.23% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine MEAR

0

Mentions 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.