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 2026-05-31Computed 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: 1.68% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31The 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
7Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-05-31The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund | 1.68% | 1.7% |
| 2 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.47% | 2.2% |
| 3 | Freddie Mac | 0.35% | 2.5% |
| 4 | Freddie Mac | 0.29% | 2.8% |
| 5 | Fannie Mae | 0.28% | 3.1% |
| 6 | Freddie Mac | 0.27% | 3.4% |
| 7 | Freddie Mac | 0.26% | 3.6% |
| 8 | Freddie Mac | 0.25% | 3.9% |
| 9 | Freddie Mac | 0.25% | 4.1% |
| 10 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.24% | 4.4% |
| 11 | Freddie Mac | 0.24% | 4.6% |
| 12 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.24% | 4.8% |
| 13 | Freddie Mac | 0.23% | 5.1% |
| 14 | Freddie Mac | 0.22% | 5.3% |
| 15 | Government National Mortgage Association | 0.22% | 5.5% |
Returns the fund reported
2024-11 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of SMBS's own filings, 19 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
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 → 2026-05-314,072 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 increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government National Mortgage Association | 0.26% | 0.47% | Freddie Mac | 0.45% | 0.24% |
| State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund | 1.47% | 1.68% | Freddie Mac | 0.25% | 0.04% |
| Government National Mortgage Association | 0.05% | 0.21% | Fannie Mae | 0.18% | 0.06% |
| Freddie Mac | 0.21% | 0.35% | Fannie Mae | 0.11% | 0.03% |
| Freddie Mac | 0.03% | 0.13% | Freddie Mac | 0.16% | 0.11% |
| Freddie Mac | 0.02% | 0.08% | Freddie Mac | 0.04% | 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 2026-05-3198.32% 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
5Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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
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.