Fund · iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-05-31Computed 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: 0.59% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31The 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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-05-31The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlackRock Liquidity Funds | 0.59% | 0.6% |
| 2 | New Jersey Economic Development Authority | 0.36% | 1.0% |
| 3 | County of King | 0.35% | 1.3% |
| 4 | San Antonio Water System | 0.28% | 1.6% |
| 5 | City of Seattle | 0.27% | 1.9% |
| 6 | State of California | 0.27% | 2.1% |
| 7 | Empire State Development Corp. | 0.25% | 2.4% |
| 8 | Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission | 0.25% | 2.6% |
| 9 | University of California | 0.25% | 2.9% |
| 10 | New Jersey Turnpike Authority | 0.25% | 3.1% |
| 11 | State of California | 0.24% | 3.4% |
| 12 | State of California | 0.24% | 3.6% |
| 13 | District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority | 0.22% | 3.8% |
| 14 | State of Connecticut Special Tax | 0.21% | 4.0% |
| 15 | State of New Jersey | 0.21% | 4.2% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of SUB'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 0.06 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 → 2026-05-312,783 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 increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Antonio Water System | 0.03% | 0.28% | BlackRock Liquidity Funds | 0.99% | 0.59% |
| Massachusetts Water Resources Authority | 0.07% | 0.17% | County of King | 0.21% | 0.11% |
| City of Seattle | 0.19% | 0.27% | City of New York | 0.10% | 0.04% |
| Florida Municipal Power Agency | 0.05% | 0.12% | Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Aviation | 0.06% | 0.04% |
| State of Hawaii | 0.01% | 0.08% | New Jersey Economic Development Authority | 0.38% | 0.36% |
| District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority | 0.08% | 0.15% | State of California | 0.29% | 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 2026-05-3194.57% 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
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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 |
Essays that examine SUB
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