JPMorgan BetaBuilders Emerging Markets Equity ETF
$77.61−1.39 (−1.76%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $903M
- 1Y return
- +31.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.63%
- Holdings
- 1460
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $79.25
- 52W range
The ETF.net BBEM Grade
Score 54 of 100 sits in the C 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.BScore 65Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 58Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 41Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 43Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 54Category rank
Our read on BBEM
CEmerging markets, wide and cheap: roughly 1,500 stocks for 0.15% a year, tracking a Morningstar emerging-markets index. JPMorgan's plumbing at a fraction of what the typical index wrapper charges.
The fund seeks broad exposure to emerging-market equities through an indexed approach, aiming to track the Morningstar Emerging Markets Target Market Exposure Index. It uses representative sampling to replicate the index.
Why people hold it
- 0.15% a year, against a 0.45% median for its index-wrapper peer group. That gap compounds quietly in a category where fees are usually the biggest controllable drag.
- About 1,500 stocks via representative sampling of the Morningstar Emerging Markets Target Market Exposure Index. Broad developing-world coverage, no single-country or single-theme bet.
- Sits in the upper half of its index-wrapper cohort on our review, helped by cost discipline and a clean, rules-based mandate. Distributions arrive quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to the category's household names, so bid-ask spreads can run wider. Matters most for large or hurried orders.
- Launched in 2023, so the track record is short compared with EM index funds that have been through multiple full cycles.
- Emerging-market equity is a bumpy ride: currency swings and country-level politics show up in the price, and this fund scores low on our risk measures.
BBEM Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,460
- 38%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Technology40.4%
- Financials19.3%
- Consumer Discr.8.8%
- Industrials7.3%
- Communication6.0%
- Materials6.0%
- Energy3.7%
- Health Care2.8%
- Cons. Staples2.7%
- Utilities2.1%
- Real Estate0.9%
Geography
- Taiwan27.18%
- South Korea19.75%
- China18.87%
- India12.74%
- Brazil3.43%
- South Africa2.64%
- Saudi Arabia2.41%
- United Arab Emirates1.91%
- 11.07%
Developed 2% · Emerging 98%
BBEM 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 | BBEM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +25.3% |
| 1 month | +2.8% |
| 3 months | −3.3% |
| 1 year | +31.0% |
| 3 years | +22.9% |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | BBEM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +25.3% | |
| 2025 | +32.4% | |
| 2024 | +5.6% | |
| 2023 | +6.0% |
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BBEM Dividends
- 4.63%
- $3.66
- $0.45 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.45 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.94 |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Dec 17, 2025 | $1.52 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.61 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.49 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $0.39 |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.50 |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.46 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.34 |
BBEM Risk
- 14.8%
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.
- 1.07
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.
- −17.4%
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.
- 1.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BBEM Cost
- The middle half of Other Major Indexes funds
- Median 0.29%
14 of the 42 Other Major Indexes funds charge less.