Bluemonte Long Term Bond ETF
$23.87−0.30 (−1.26%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.28%
- Fund size
- $165M
- 1Y return
- −2.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.53%
- Holdings
- 3
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.19
- 52W range
The ETF.net BLTD Grade
Score 52 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 60Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 85Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 35Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 26Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.FScore 21Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 39Category rank
Our read on BLTD
CA 2025 arrival that goes active in a corner of the market ruled by cheap index trackers: total return and income from the long end of the bond market, priced below the typical aggregate-bond ETF.
The Fund seeks total return and income and is actively managed.
Why people hold it
- 0.25% a year, under the median for aggregate-bond ETFs and modest for a fund where a manager picks the bonds instead of copying an index.
- Distributions come monthly, and the prospectus sets no fixed payout target, so income reflects what the portfolio actually earns.
- Mandate and portfolio line up closely: an active fixed-income fund aiming at total return and income, with no drift into off-label assets.
- Plain 1940 Act fund wrapper, which means ordinary 1099 reporting rather than a partnership K-1.
Worth knowing
- Launched mid-2025 and thinly traded, so the track record is short and spreads can run wider than in the category's household names.
- Long-dated bonds react harder to rate moves than short or intermediate ones, and this fund's swings have run hotter than most of its aggregate-bond peers.
- Active work carries a price: index anchors BND, SPAB and SCHZ each charge 0.03%.
BLTD Holdings
- Bonds
- 3
- 100%
- BKAG
Sectors
- Financials100.0%
Geography
- United States100.00%
BLTD 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 | BLTD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −2.4% |
| 1 month | −0.4% |
| 3 months | −3.1% |
| 1 year | −2.3% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | BLTD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −2.4% | |
| 2025 | +3.9% |
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BLTD Dividends
- 4.53%
- $1.10
- $0.10 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.09 |
| May 27, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Aug 28, 2025 | Aug 29, 2025 | $0.10 |
BLTD Risk
- 5.8%
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.
- −0.49
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.
- −5.8%
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.
- 0.15
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BLTD Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
41 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.