iShares Core 5-10 Year USD Bond ETF
$41.81−0.39 (−0.91%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.07%
- Fund size
- $270M
- 1Y return
- −0.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.65%
- Holdings
- 3480
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.24
- 52W range
The ETF.net IMTB 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 86Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 98Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 38Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 54Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 63Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on IMTB
AMost core bond funds hand you the entire yield curve. IMTB takes only the 5-to-10-year belly, and its index reaches past the Agg into high yield, for seven basis points a year.
The fund seeks to track an index of U.S.-dollar-denominated investment-grade and high-yield bonds with remaining maturities between five and ten years.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.07% a year against a category median near 0.36%. The maturity-sliced build does not carry a boutique price tag.
- The Bloomberg U.S. Universal 5-10 Year Index goes where the Agg stops: investment grade plus a high-yield sleeve, spread across thousands of individual bonds.ishares.com
- Tracks its benchmark very closely and pays monthly, so income arrives on a set cadence rather than in quarterly lumps.
- An iShares Core fund running since 2016, and one of the stronger builds in a core bond aisle that holds well over a hundred competitors.
Worth knowing
- Trades lightly next to giants like BND and SCHZ. Thinner volume can mean wider spreads at the moment you buy or sell.
- One maturity bucket only: no short-end ballast, no long bonds. Moves in intermediate rates hit the whole portfolio at once.
- The high-yield slice adds credit risk that plain Agg trackers (BND, SPAB, SCHZ) leave out, and those three run at 0.03%.
IMTB Holdings
- Bonds
- 3,480
- 18%
- BLACKROCK CASH CL INST SL AGENCY
Geography
- United States82.31%
- Canada2.24%
- United Kingdom1.53%
- Mexico1.01%
- Cayman Islands0.93%
- Luxembourg0.86%
- Japan0.80%
- France0.60%
- 9.72%
IMTB 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 | IMTB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.6% |
| 1 month | −1.3% |
| 3 months | −1.7% |
| 1 year | −0.0% |
| 3 years | +5.0% |
| 5 years | +0.0% |
| 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 | IMTB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.6% | |
| 2025 | +8.9% | |
| 2024 | +1.9% | |
| 2023 | +6.1% | |
| 2022 | −12.8% | |
| 2021 | −1.4% | |
| 2020 | +6.3% |
IMTB in the news
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IMTB Dividends
- 4.65%
- $1.96
- $0.17 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.17 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.16 |
IMTB Risk
- 6.1%
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.
- 0.06
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.
- −17.8%
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.
- 1.05
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IMTB Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
11 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.