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Fidelity Limited Term Bond ETF

$50.04-0.06% today
505152-WK

The fund normally invests at least 80% of assets in investment-grade debt securities (those of medium and high quality) of all types and repurchase agreements for those securities. It is managed to have similar overall interest rate risk to the Fidelity Limited Term Composite Index?. Normally, the manager maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity between two and five years.

Price & daily flows
50.850.450.150.04DAILY NET FLOWAug 21Dec 18Apr 21Aug 21

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 3Y SHOWN

The desk’s read

Flows are quiet — the past month netted out near zero, while the price has returned -1.3% so far this year. At 0.25% a year it is not the cheapest way in — IJH runs the same ground at 0.05%.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$150Massets under management
0.25%expense ratio · $25 per $10,000 a year
net flow, trailing month
59Kavg daily volume, 30 days
466holdings · US-domiciled
2014listed October 8, 2014 · beta 0.05
Sector weights
Cash & Others100%
Other100%
Corporate72.69%
Securitized17.2%
Government7.13%
Mutual fund2.16%
Loans1.19%
Miscellaneous0.53%
Futures0.07%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
Other100%
United States100%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week-0.0%
1 month+0.1%
3 months-0.3%
6 months-1.7%
YTD-1.3%
1 year-1.2%
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week
1 month
3 months
YTD
1 year

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

The risk read
2%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
2%realized volatility, 1 year
-2.4%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-2.0%where it sits vs. that peak today

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

The case against FLTB

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat FLTB on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
STIP iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF0.03%$16B+$288M-22bp on fee · 107× the assets · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-21bp on fee · 260× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF0.05%$128.4B+$547M-20bp on fee · 856× the assets · +$547M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-21bp on fee · 156× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.7B+$312M-21bp on fee · 124× the assets · +$312M in over the monthHead-to-head
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