iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF

iShares Trust · 1 share class

Emerging-markets bond index ETF
One fund, 1 share class:EMB
$14.51B NAV
676 positions · as of 2026-04-30 · filed 2026-06-25

Fund classification

Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2

iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF is an emerging-markets bond index ETF that tracks the J.P. Morgan EMBI Global Core Index.

Asset class
Bonds
Region
Emerging markets
Management
Index (passive)
Fund type
ETF
Credit quality
Mixed credit
Rate sensitivity
Intermediate duration
Features
Master-feeder

Fund profile

As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1

The iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (the Fund ) seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of U.S. dollar-denominated, emerging market bonds.

Strategy · summarised

The fund tracks the J.P. Morgan EMBI Global Core Index, a market-value-weighted benchmark of U.S. dollar-denominated emerging market bonds issued by sovereign and quasi-sovereign entities, using representative sampling to hold a subset of index securities with similar investment characteristics. The fund invests at least 80% of assets in index components and may use up to 10% in derivatives and non-index fixed income securities to track the index. Because the fund samples rather than holds all index constituents, its returns may diverge from the index.

Expenses
0.39%one share class
Share classExpense ratio
EMB0.39%

Portfolio turnover 15.00% · as of 2026 Q1

Allocation

Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2

98.89%
of net assets
Bonds98.00%
Cash & short-term0.90%

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

2026Q2 vs 2026Q1: 30 new37 exited

Largest new: UKRAINE GOVERNMENT, REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR ×2, FED REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL, ROMANIA, REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA, KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN, REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Largest exited: UKRAINE GOVERNMENT, Oman Government International Bonds, REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR, Turkiye Government International Bonds, Republic of Kenya Government International Bonds, KSA SUKUK LTD, Panama Government International Bonds, Paraguay Government International Bonds

Return profile

Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026

1-year
+12.08%
3-year
+30.95%
5-year
+10.66%
Volatility
5.58%
Worst 3-yr fall
-5.87%
Cumulative return· May 2023 – Apr 2026

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-04-30

Avg coupon
5.60%
Avg maturity
11.16 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

6%
floating
Fixed rate93.3%
Floating rate6.4%
Zero-coupon or unclassified0.3%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

<1y10y+
<1y0.2%
1-3y13.1%
3-5y17.4%
5-10y32.6%
10y+36.7%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: 0.31% · $44.46M · 8 positions
In arrears: none reported
Paid in kind: none reported

These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.

Risk profile

Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2

More of this fund’s sensitivity sits in credit spreads than in interest rates — a rate rally that comes with a credit selloff works against it.

Interest-rate duration
6.06 yr
approx. move per 100bp
Credit-spread duration
6.70 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.

≈ -13.0%
of value
Credit spreads53%
Interest rates47%

Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+6.70
yrs total
Investment grade+3.85 yr
High yield+2.85 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.

Interest rate6.06 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.28 yr5%
5 yr2.26 yr37%
10 yr1.84 yr30%
30 yr1.67 yr28%
Credit spread6.70 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.00 yr0%
1 yr0.17 yr3%
5 yr2.01 yr30%
10 yr1.55 yr23%
30 yr2.96 yr44%

The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.

Show the numbers
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo+0.01+0.00+0.00$15$0
1 yr+0.28+0.09+0.08$132.1k$117.8k
5 yr+2.26+1.00+1.01$1.45m$1.47m
10 yr+1.84+0.84+0.72$1.21m$1.04m
30 yr+1.67+1.92+1.04$2.79m$1.51m

Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.

Holdings

By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page

Issuer%NAVValue
Argentina Republic Government International Bonds4.13% floating · due 2035-07-091.10%$159.56M
BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES0.90%$129.83M
Ecuador Government International Bonds6.90% · due 2035-07-310.77%$111.88M
Argentina Republic Government International Bonds0.75% floating · due 2030-07-090.71%$103.57M
Argentina Republic Government International Bonds5.00% · due 2038-01-090.63%$91.46M
Ghana Government International Bonds5.00% floating · due 2035-07-030.52%$75.96M
Argentina Republic Government International Bonds3.50% floating · due 2041-07-090.52%$74.89M
Uruguay Government International Bonds5.10% · due 2050-06-180.51%$73.89M
EAGLE FUNDING LUXCO SARL5.50% · due 2030-08-170.50%$72.57M
Oman Government International Bonds6.75% · due 2048-01-170.42%$60.88M
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Top 10 positions are 6.58% of net assets, top 25 11.69%, across 151 issuers.

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