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SUB holdings

SUB reports 2,917 holdings and behaves like 1283.4 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 2026-05-31
2,917 Positions reported
1283.4 Effective holdings
2.3× Concentration multiple
3.11% 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: 0.59% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

The largest line in SUB's filing is not a stock but BlackRock Liquidity MuniCash Funds: Institutional Shares, a short-term position at 0.59% of net assets. Ten companies are 3.11% of the fund; the other 2,907 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, SUB behaves like 1283.4 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 5.4 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings SUB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 572 at 2019-11-30 and 1283.4 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 295 positions were added and 161 dropped; 10.4% 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

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Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, SUB went from behaving like 572 equally weighted positions to 1283.4 — 124% more, while its top ten went from 5.48% to 3.11% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 2,917 1283.4 3.11% 0.59%
2026-02-28 2,783 1132.6 3.57% 0.99%
2025-11-30 2,554 1148.9 3.29% 0.51%
2025-08-31 2,587 1186.5 2.93% 0.41%
2025-05-31 2,570 1135.1 3.06% 0.44%
2025-02-28 2,492 1047.3 3.37% 0.46%
2024-11-30 2,406 1014.3 3.28% 0.41%
2024-08-31 2,349 937 3.5% 0.44%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 2,463 932.3 3.68% 0.58%
2024-02-29 2,517 953.8 3.41% 0.41%
2023-11-30 2,598 976.4 3.38% 0.41%
2023-08-31 2,670 1003.8 3.29% 0.42%
2023-05-31 2,920 1118.9 3.09% 0.36%
2023-02-28 3,045 1162.9 2.91% 0.34%
2022-11-30 2,819 988.6 3.83% 1.06%
2022-08-31 2,485 1019.1 3.46% 0.4%
2022-05-31 2,487 1009.6 3.44% 0.46%
2022-02-28 2,400 943.1 3.82% 0.74%
2021-11-30 2,109 870.8 3.8% 0.45%
2021-08-31 1,995 794.4 4.36% 0.55%
2021-05-31 1,802 749.6 4.23% 0.52%
2021-02-28 1,684 694.6 4.64% 0.57%
2020-11-30 1,361 642.8 4.82% 0.65%
2020-08-31 1,324 600 5.44% 1.05%
2020-05-31 1,238 622.2 4.69% 0.6%
2020-02-29 1,246 589.6 5.53% 0.93%
2019-11-30 1,093 572 5.48% 0.83%

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 2,917 positions in SUB'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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1BlackRock Liquidity Funds0.59%0.6%
2New Jersey Economic Development Authority0.36%1.0%
3County of King0.35%1.3%
4San Antonio Water System0.28%1.6%
5City of Seattle0.27%1.9%
6State of California0.27%2.1%
7Empire State Development Corp.0.25%2.4%
8Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission0.25%2.6%
9University of California0.25%2.9%
10New Jersey Turnpike Authority0.25%3.1%
11State of California0.24%3.4%
12State of California0.24%3.6%
13District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority0.22%3.8%
14State of Connecticut Special Tax0.21%4.0%
15State of New Jersey0.21%4.2%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

3.1%Last twelve months filed
11%Whole series, compounded
1.9%Best month
-1.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.06 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: SUB.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

2,783 positions became 2,917: 295 added (9.2% of the fund at the later date), 161 dropped (5.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 10.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of SUB compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
San Antonio Water System0.03%0.28% BlackRock Liquidity Funds0.99%0.59%
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority0.07%0.17% County of King0.21%0.11%
City of Seattle0.19%0.27% City of New York0.10%0.04%
Florida Municipal Power Agency0.05%0.12% Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Aviation0.06%0.04%
State of Hawaii0.01%0.08% New Jersey Economic Development Authority0.38%0.36%
District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority0.08%0.15% State of California0.29%0.27%

New: Orlando Utilities Commission (0.18%), New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority (0.18%), City of New York (0.18%), Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority (0.18%), State of California (0.17%), City of New York (0.15%). Gone: Empire State Development Corp. (0.23%), Connecticut State Health & Educational Facilities Author (0.23%), State of Minnesota (0.18%), South Carolina Public Service Authority (0.18%), State of California (0.15%), State of California (0.14%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

94.57% debt, 5.43% short-term investment as filed; 0.6% 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

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of SUB (1283.4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
BNDX Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund 6,999 1088.6 4.54% 2026-07-31
SPHY State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF 1,935 1127.1 3.17% 2026-06-30
VCLT Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund 2,778 1211.8 3.25% 2026-05-31
VCIT Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund 2,304 1226.6 2.69% 2026-05-31
SCYB Schwab High Yield Bond ETF 1,834 1248.1 3.11% 2026-05-31
SCHI Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 2,346 1447.7 2.46% 2026-06-30
TFI State Street(R) SPDR Nuveen ICE Municipal Bond ETF 1,889 1471.4 2.03% 2026-06-30
SLQD iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 3,053 1541.1 2.86% 2026-07-31
VCEB Vanguard ESG U.s. Corporate Bond ETF 2,774 1811.7 1.97% 2026-05-31
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 2,989 1843.2 1.99% 2026-05-31

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