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Fund · Schwab Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF · measured from SEC filings

SMBS holdings

SMBS reports 4,197 holdings and behaves like 984.5 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 7 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31
4,197 Positions reported
984.5 Effective holdings
4.3× Concentration multiple
4.35% 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: 1.68% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

The largest line in SMBS's filing is not a stock but State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund, a short-term position at 1.67% of net assets. Ten companies are 4.35% of the fund; the other 4,187 share the rest. Among the 15 mortgage-backed funds measured here, SMBS behaves like 984.5 holdings against a median of 157.5 — 6.3 times the median. Across 7 quarterly filings SMBS has become less concentrated: it behaved like 120.1 at 2024-11-30 and 984.5 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 129 positions were added and 4 dropped; 9.0% 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 2024

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Between 2024-11-30 and 2026-05-31, SMBS went from behaving like 120.1 equally weighted positions to 984.5 — 720% more, while its top ten went from 18.63% to 4.35% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 4,197 984.5 4.35% 1.68%
2026-02-28 4,072 1022.6 4.08% 1.47%
2025-11-30 3,935 889.3 4.4% 1.86%
2025-08-31 3,847 985.2 4.05% 1.37%
2025-05-31 3,737 908 4.47% 1.49%
2025-02-28 262 129.5 17.59% 3%
2024-11-30 240 120.1 18.63% 3.45%

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 4,197 positions in SMBS's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: SMBS.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund1.68%1.7%
2Government National Mortgage Association0.47%2.2%
3Freddie Mac0.35%2.5%
4Freddie Mac0.29%2.8%
5Fannie Mae0.28%3.1%
6Freddie Mac0.27%3.4%
7Freddie Mac0.26%3.6%
8Freddie Mac0.25%3.9%
9Freddie Mac0.25%4.1%
10Government National Mortgage Association0.24%4.4%
11Freddie Mac0.24%4.6%
12Government National Mortgage Association0.24%4.8%
13Freddie Mac0.23%5.1%
14Freddie Mac0.22%5.3%
15Government National Mortgage Association0.22%5.5%

Returns the fund reported

2024-11 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of SMBS's own filings, 19 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

6.8%Last twelve months filed
9%Whole series, compounded
2.4%Best month
-1.5%Worst month

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: SMBS.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

4,072 positions became 4,197: 129 added (6.6% of the fund at the later date), 4 dropped (0.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 9.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of SMBS compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
Government National Mortgage Association0.26%0.47% Freddie Mac0.45%0.24%
State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund1.47%1.68% Freddie Mac0.25%0.04%
Government National Mortgage Association0.05%0.21% Fannie Mae0.18%0.06%
Freddie Mac0.21%0.35% Fannie Mae0.11%0.03%
Freddie Mac0.03%0.13% Freddie Mac0.16%0.11%
Freddie Mac0.02%0.08% Freddie Mac0.04%0.01%

New: Freddie Mac (0.29%), Freddie Mac (0.25%), Freddie Mac (0.22%), Freddie Mac (0.20%), Freddie Mac (0.18%), Freddie Mac (0.17%). Gone: Freddie Mac (0.13%), Freddie Mac (0.07%), Freddie Mac (0.04%), Fannie Mae (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

98.32% mortgage-backed, 1.68% short-term investment as filed; 1.7% 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 SMBS (984.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
MBB iShares MBS ETF 11,146 187.7 12.45% 2026-05-31
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

Essays that examine SMBS

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