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 2026-07-31Computed 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: 0.01% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31MEAR'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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parish of St James | 2.27% | 2.3% |
| 2 | Iowa Finance Authority | 2.21% | 4.5% |
| 3 | Main Street Natural Gas, Inc. | 1.95% | 6.4% |
| 4 | PEFA, Inc. | 1.81% | 8.2% |
| 5 | Texas Municipal Gas Acquisition & Supply Corp. IV | 1.75% | 10.0% |
| 6 | City of Burlington | 1.64% | 11.6% |
| 7 | County of Allen | 1.51% | 13.1% |
| 8 | Kentucky Public Energy Authority | 1.42% | 14.6% |
| 9 | Connecticut Housing Finance Authority | 1.27% | 15.8% |
| 10 | Loudoun County Economic Development Authority | 1.25% | 17.1% |
| 11 | South Dakota Housing Development Authority | 1.15% | 18.2% |
| 12 | New York State Housing Finance Agency | 1.04% | 19.3% |
| 13 | Indianapolis Local Public Improvement Bond Bank | 1.03% | 20.3% |
| 14 | New Mexico Municipal Energy Acquisition Authority | 1.01% | 21.3% |
| 15 | Mississippi Business Finance Corp. | 0.99% | 22.3% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of MEAR'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 0.05 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 → 2026-04-30343 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Finance Authority | 0.11% | 0.96% | BlackRock Liquidity Funds | 0.62% | 0.00% |
| Wyoming Community Development Authority | 0.39% | 0.67% | Wisconsin Health & Educational Facilities Authority | 0.70% | 0.15% |
| Harris County Cultural Education Facilities Finance Corp. | 0.44% | 0.65% | New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secu | 0.33% | 0.03% |
| County of Allen | 1.39% | 1.51% | Industrial Development Board of the City of Mobile Alabama | 0.66% | 0.36% |
| Parish of St James | 2.22% | 2.27% | Louisiana Local Government Environmental Facilities & Co | 0.44% | 0.15% |
| Iowa Finance Authority | 2.16% | 2.21% | New York City Transitional Finance Authority Future Tax Secu | 0.20% | 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 2026-07-3164.12% 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
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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
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