PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active ESG Exchange-Traded Fund
$98.76−0.02 (−0.03%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.36%
- Fund size
- $217M
- 1Y return
- +3.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.89%
- Holdings
- 191
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $98.73
- 52W range
The ETF.net EMNT Grade
Score 51 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.FScore 11Category 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 53Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 23Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 84Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 62Category rank
Our read on EMNT
CPIMCO's ultra-short cash-parking playbook, run through an ESG screen. An active manager picking a few hundred short-dated bonds, paying income monthly, for a fee above most of the category.
The Fund seeks maximum current income while preserving capital and maintaining daily liquidity, using PIMCO’s ESG investment strategy.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed, not index-following: the mandate is explicit about maximum current income while preserving capital and keeping daily liquidity.
- ESG is written into the stated objective itself, so the screen is part of the fund's contract rather than a label on the brochure.
- Pays monthly, and spreads the job across roughly 190 short-dated positions in a plain 1940 Act ETF wrapper.
- Launched in 2019, it has a multi-year live record doing this one narrow job rather than a freshly minted backtest.
Worth knowing
- 0.36% a year is a real bite in a category built on pennies. VUSB (0.10%) and SHV (0.15%) do similar cash-parking work, without the ESG screen.
- Thinly traded next to the category's giants, so bid/ask spreads can be wider and bigger orders need more attention at the point of execution.
- Ultra-short bonds are not a savings account: the fund seeks to preserve capital, but credit and rate moves still shift the price, and the monthly payout floats.
EMNT Holdings
- Bonds
- 191
- 15%
- US TREASURY N/B 03/28 3.875 3.88% 03/31/2028
Geography
- United States55.07%
- Canada10.13%
- Netherlands9.09%
- United Kingdom8.35%
- Japan7.50%
- France3.44%
- Ireland1.73%
- Spain1.73%
- 2.96%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
EMNT 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 | EMNT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.8% |
| 1 month | +0.1% |
| 3 months | +1.0% |
| 1 year | +3.9% |
| 3 years | +5.0% |
| 5 years | +3.5% |
| 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 | EMNT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.8% | |
| 2025 | +4.7% | |
| 2024 | +5.8% | |
| 2023 | +5.8% | |
| 2022 | −1.3% | |
| 2021 | +0.1% | |
| 2020 | +2.1% |
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EMNT Dividends
- 3.89%
- $3.84
- $0.33 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.32 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.35 |
EMNT Risk
- 0.3%
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.
- 2.04
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.
- −1.7%
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.
- 0.02
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EMNT Cost
- The middle half of Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds
- Median 0.19%
67 of the 77 Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds charge less.