Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF
$19.55−0.01 (−0.07%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.10%
- Fund size
- $4.6B
- 1Y return
- +3.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.25%
- Holdings
- 484
- Volume · 30D
- 0.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $19.54
- 52W range
The ETF.net BSCR Grade
Score 75 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.CScore 49Category 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.AScore 85Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 72Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 82Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 73Category rank
Our read on BSCR
AA bond ladder rung in ETF form. BSCR holds roughly 500 investment-grade corporate bonds that all come due in 2027, so it has an end date instead of a portfolio that rolls on forever. Monthly payouts, 0.10% expense ratio.
The fund tracks an index of US-dollar-denominated, investment-grade corporate bonds whose effective maturities are in 2027.
Why people hold it
- Defined maturity: the index only holds US-dollar investment-grade corporate bonds whose effective maturities land in 2027, so the portfolio shortens toward a known date rather than holding a permanent duration.invesco.com
- Roughly 500 bonds behind one ticker, which is diversification most investors cannot assemble buying individual corporate issues. Income is paid monthly.
- 0.10% expense ratio, matching the target-maturity cohort median, on a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively and prices tightly against its index.
- Sits in the top quartile of a crowded target-maturity field of more than 100 funds, one of the sturdier builds among dated bond ETFs.
Worth knowing
- This is corporate credit, not government paper. Issuers can be downgraded or default, a risk a Treasury-based rung like IBTJ does not carry.
- 0.10% is mid-pack, not the floor. Rival ladder rungs run cheaper, including VBCB at 0.08% and IBTJ at 0.07%.
- A dated fund, not a forever holding. As 2027 nears, the portfolio's remaining life shrinks, so a continuing bond allocation means planning the next rung.
BSCR Holdings
- Bonds
- 484
- 7%
- Microsoft Corp 3.30% 02/06/2027
Sectors
- Financials100.0%
Geography
- United States87.92%
- Canada5.63%
- Japan2.88%
- United Kingdom1.09%
- Ireland0.93%
- Spain0.93%
- Luxembourg0.28%
- Netherlands0.13%
- 0.22%
BSCR 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 | BSCR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.3% |
| 1 month | +0.1% |
| 3 months | +0.9% |
| 1 year | +3.6% |
| 3 years | +5.7% |
| 5 years | +1.4% |
| 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 | BSCR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.3% | |
| 2025 | +5.8% | |
| 2024 | +4.5% | |
| 2023 | +6.4% | |
| 2022 | −9.5% | |
| 2021 | −1.7% | |
| 2020 | +9.7% |
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BSCR Dividends
- 4.25%
- $0.83
- $0.07 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 24, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.07 |
| May 18, 2026 | May 22, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 24, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 23, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 24, 2025 | $0.07 |
BSCR Risk
- 2.6%
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.
- 0.32
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.
- −14.6%
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.
- 0.44
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BSCR Cost
- The middle half of Defined-Maturity Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.10%
10 of the 42 Defined-Maturity Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.