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iShares iBonds Dec 2028 Term Corporate ETF

$25.200.00% today
252652-WK

The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the underlying index and will invest at least 90% of its assets in fixed income securities of the types included in the underlying index. The index consists of U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade securities publicly issued by U.S. and non-U.S. corporate issuers that have $300 million or more of outstanding face value at the time of inclusion.

Price & daily flows
25.525.325.225.20DAILY NET FLOWFeb 17Apr 17Jun 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 6M SHOWN · NET +$346M OVER THIS RANGE

The desk’s read

Money keeps arriving — +$10M of net buying over the past month, about 0.2% of the fund's asset base, while the price has returned -1.0% so far this year. At 0.10% a year it is not the cheapest way in — AGG runs the same ground at 0.03%.

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

$4.1Bassets under management
0.10%expense ratio · $10 per $10,000 a year
+$10Mnet flow, trailing month
642Kavg daily volume, 30 days
594holdings · US-domiciled
2018listed September 17, 2018 · beta 0.04
The book at a glance
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CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS TODAY’S MOVE · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1PFIZER INVESTMENT ENTER COMPANY GUAR 05/28 4.450.72%
2AMGEN INC0.69%
3CIGNA GROUP0.68%
4AERCAP IR 3.% 10/29/280.64%
5SALESFORCE INC0.56%
6RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION0.55%
7MORGAN STANLEY0.54%
8COMCAST CORPORATION0.54%
9VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC0.50%
10SPRINT CAPITAL CORPORATION0.49%
11AMAZON.COM INC0.47%
12CITIBANK NA0.46%
13APPLE INC0.40%
14AT&T INC0.39%
15AMAZON.COM INC0.39%

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Country weights
United States83.92%
Canada3.59%
United Kingdom3.23%
Japan3.06%
Australia2.11%
Ireland1.06%
Spain0.91%
Switzerland0.51%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.1%
1 month0.0%
3 months-0.0%
6 months-1.3%
YTD-1.0%
1 year
3 years

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week−$13M
1 month+$10M
3 months+$207M
YTD+$539M
1 year+$1.1B

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

Monthly net flows
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJulAug
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
2%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
2%realized volatility, 1 year
-1.8%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-1.4%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 0.9% of the book; the top ten carry 6%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 204 equally-weighted positions.

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

The case against IBDT

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat IBDT 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-7bp on fee · 4× the assets · +$288M in over the monthHead-to-head
MBB iShares MBS ETF0.04%$39B+$26M-6bp on fee · 10× the assets · +$26M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-6bp on fee · 6× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.7B+$312M-6bp on fee · 5× the assets · +$312M in over the monthHead-to-head
MUB iShares National Muni Bond ETF0.05%$45.8B+$585M-5bp on fee · 11× the assets · +$585M in over the monthHead-to-head
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