JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
$44.20−0.40 (−0.89%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Fund size
- $1.0B
- 1Y return
- −0.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.49%
- Holdings
- 1584
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $44.58
- 52W range
The ETF.net BBAG Grade
Score 78 of 100 sits in the A band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 95Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 66Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 72Category rank
Our read on BBAG
ACore US bond exposure for 0.03% a year. JPMorgan turned up late to the Agg price war in 2018 and came in at the floor, matching the fee charged by rivals many times its size.
The fund seeks results that closely track the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which represents the U.S. investment-grade fixed-rate bond market.
Why people hold it
- 0.03% a year sits on the category's price floor, level with AGG, BND, SPAB and SCHZ and far below the typical core-bond fund.
- The whole job is hugging the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, and it does that tightly: among the closer trackers in a crowded core-bond field.am.jpmorgan.com
- One line item covers roughly 1,700 investment-grade, fixed-rate US bonds. No issue picking, no maturity ladders to babysit.
- Distributions come monthly, not quarterly, so income lands on a steadier cadence.
Worth knowing
- Interest rates drive this thing. Broad investment-grade bonds lose price when yields rise, and the fund carries that exposure undiluted.
- Investment grade, fixed rate, US only. High-yield credit, floating-rate paper and foreign bonds sit outside the mandate by design.
- Smaller and less heavily traded than AGG and BND, so spreads can run wider. Limit orders matter more here than with the giants.
BBAG Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,584
- 14%
- JPMORGAN U.S. GOVERNMENT
Geography
- United States92.45%
- Canada1.64%
- United Kingdom0.88%
- Japan0.69%
- Luxembourg0.51%
- Mexico0.48%
- Spain0.32%
- Philippines0.32%
- 2.71%
BBAG Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | BBAG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.1% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −1.5% |
| 1 year | −0.1% |
| 3 years | +4.3% |
| 5 years | −0.6% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | BBAG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.1% | |
| 2025 | +7.3% | |
| 2024 | +1.3% | |
| 2023 | +5.4% | |
| 2022 | −13.3% | |
| 2021 | −1.8% | |
| 2020 | +7.1% |
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BBAG Dividends
- 4.49%
- $2.00
- $0.17 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.17 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.16 |
BBAG Risk
- 5.6%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- −0.08
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −17.8%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.00
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BBAG Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
No US Aggregate Bond fund charges less.