JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Treasury Bond 1-3 Year ETF
$97.08−0.23 (−0.24%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.04%
- Fund size
- $55M
- 1Y return
- +1.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.80%
- Holdings
- 92
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $97.30
- 52W range
The ETF.net BBSB Grade
Score 73 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 89Category 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.BScore 56Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 36Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 64Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 35Category rank
Our read on BBSB
AA plain box of short Treasuries at 0.04%, well under what the category's longtime benchmark fund charges for the very same ICE index. About 90 bonds, monthly income, no story beyond the math.
The fund seeks current income by tracking the ICE U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year Bond Index. It uses representative sampling to closely replicate the index's characteristics.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.04% a year, versus a 0.15% median for 1-3 year Treasury ETFs. On a parking-lot asset like this, fee is most of the controllable outcome.
- Tracks the ICE U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year Bond Index, the same benchmark iShares' SHY follows at 0.15%. Same bonds, same rules, a fraction of the toll.am.jpmorgan.com
- Representative sampling of roughly 90 Treasuries keeps it tight to the index, and it stays in its lane: U.S. government paper, one to three years, monthly distributions.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded. Bid-ask spread can outweigh the fee edge for short holding periods, so execution matters more here than with the category's giants.
- VGSH, SCHO and SPTS run the same short-Treasury job for 0.03%. The gap is a rounding error, but it is a gap.
- Launched in 2023 with a modest asset base, so it has a shorter operating history than the decades-old incumbents in this corner.
BBSB Holdings
- Bonds
- 92
- 15%
- UNITED STATES 3.5% 01/28
Geography
- United States100.00%
BBSB 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 | BBSB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.6% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | +0.2% |
| 1 year | +1.7% |
| 3 years | +4.1% |
| 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 | BBSB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.6% | |
| 2025 | +5.1% | |
| 2024 | +4.0% | |
| 2023 | +2.6% |
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BBSB Dividends
- 3.80%
- $3.70
- $0.32 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.26 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.32 |
BBSB Risk
- 1.5%
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.
- −0.28
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.
- −1.6%
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.
- 0.23
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BBSB Cost
- The middle half of Treasuries (1-3 Year) funds
- Median 0.15%
3 of the 15 Treasuries (1-3 Year) funds charge less.