VanEck Green Bond ETF
$23.43−0.15 (−0.66%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $191M
- 1Y return
- +0.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.48%
- Holdings
- 466
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $23.54
- 52W range
The ETF.net GRNB Grade
Score 77 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 96Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 92Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 63Category 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.AScore 99Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 50Category rank
Our read on GRNB
AIts peer group is stacked with total-bond-market giants. GRNB goes narrow instead: only dollar-denominated green bonds funding environmental projects, issued worldwide by governments, supranationals and companies. A 2017-vintage specialist at 0.20%.
The fund seeks to track the S&P Green Bond U.S. Dollar Select Index before fees and expenses. The index covers U.S.-dollar-denominated green bonds financing environmentally friendly projects and issued globally by supranational, government, and corporate entities.
Why people hold it
- The mandate is the point: bonds whose proceeds fund environmentally friendly projects, tracked to the S&P Green Bond U.S. Dollar Select Index instead of a generic aggregate benchmark.vaneck.com
- 0.20% a year runs below the typical fund in its category, and it sits in the top quartile of a large aggregate-bond peer group on how closely it tracks and what it holds.
- Global sourcing, dollar pricing: supranational, government and corporate issuers, roughly 500 bonds, all USD-denominated, so no currency translation layered on top.
- Distributions land monthly, and the fund has been running since 2017.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to core bond giants like BND, so spreads and order type matter more here.
- Green describes what the proceeds fund, not an issuer's whole business; the credit still sits with governments, supranationals and companies.
- The screen costs extra: plain aggregate rivals like BND and SPAB list expense ratios near 0.03%.
GRNB Holdings
- Other
- 466
- 9%
- European Investment Bank
Sectors
- Industrials100.0%
Geography
- United States35.06%
- Hong Kong8.47%
- Cayman Islands6.53%
- South Korea6.29%
- Luxembourg5.91%
- United Arab Emirates4.97%
- Chile3.33%
- Germany3.30%
- 26.15%
Developed 46% · Emerging 54%
GRNB 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 | GRNB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.2% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | −0.8% |
| 1 year | +0.6% |
| 3 years | +5.3% |
| 5 years | +0.5% |
| 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 | GRNB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.2% | |
| 2025 | +7.1% | |
| 2024 | +3.3% | |
| 2023 | +7.1% | |
| 2022 | −11.9% | |
| 2021 | −2.3% | |
| 2020 | +8.0% |
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GRNB Dividends
- 4.48%
- $1.06
- $0.09 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.07 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.08 |
GRNB Risk
- 4.4%
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.
- 0.13
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.
- −17.6%
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.
- 0.69
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
GRNB Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
1 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.