JPMorgan ActiveBuilders Emerging Markets Equity ETF
$63.08−1.09 (−1.71%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.33%
- Fund size
- $1.8B
- 1Y return
- +38.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.23%
- Holdings
- 479
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $64.14
- 52W range
The ETF.net JEMA Grade
Score 81 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 94Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 57Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 78Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 89Category rank
Our read on JEMA
AActive emerging-markets management priced like an index fund: J.P. Morgan blends its own country, region and style EM strategies into one roughly 500-stock portfolio built to keep the MSCI EM index's sector and country risk shape.
Seeks long-term capital appreciation through a portfolio of emerging-market equities.
Why people hold it
- 0.33% a year, about half the 0.65% median for active EM funds and level with the cheapest names in the group (AVEM, AVXC, AVSE).
- Not one manager's hunch: the portfolio stitches together a range of J.P. Morgan's actively managed EM strategies across countries, regions and styles.sec.gov
- Active tilts, benchmark shape. It overweights and underweights countries and sectors versus the MSCI EM index while aiming to hold similar sector and geographic risk.sec.gov
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that stands among the strongest implementations in the active EM group on cost and structure.
Worth knowing
- Active means results ride on the adviser's calls, and the fund has only been trading since 2021, a short record for an EM strategy.sec.gov
- Full-market EM exposure runs hot: volatility screens as the softer part of the picture next to peers, the trade-off for staying in the whole asset class.
- Moderately traded rather than a tape giant, and cash comes back once or twice a year, not monthly.
JEMA Holdings
- Stocks
- 479
- 41%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Technology43.6%
- Financials21.6%
- Consumer Discr.8.6%
- Industrials7.0%
- Communication6.5%
- Energy3.5%
- Materials3.5%
- Cons. Staples2.1%
- Health Care1.5%
- Utilities1.2%
- Real Estate0.7%
Geography
- Taiwan27.33%
- South Korea21.78%
- China19.18%
- India9.46%
- Brazil5.58%
- South Africa2.35%
- Mexico1.88%
- Hong Kong1.62%
- 10.82%
Developed 3% · Emerging 97%
JEMA Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
JEMA$13,855
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 | JEMA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +31.0% |
| 1 month | +3.0% |
| 3 months | −3.1% |
| 1 year | +38.5% |
| 3 years | +25.8% |
| 5 years | +8.8% |
| 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 | JEMA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +31.0% | |
| 2025 | +34.9% | |
| 2024 | +5.7% | |
| 2023 | +9.8% | |
| 2022 | −25.0% | |
| 2021 | −4.8% |
JEMA in the news
JEMA Dividends
- 2.23%
- $1.43
- $1.43 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $1.43 |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $0.91 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $1.07 |
| Dec 20, 2022 | Dec 23, 2022 | $0.91 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 4, 2022 | $0.06 |
| Dec 21, 2021 | Dec 27, 2021 | $0.57 |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Dec 20, 2021 | $0.09 |
JEMA Risk
- 16.0%
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.
- 1.13
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.
- −36.5%
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.
JEMA Cost
0.33%
JEMA0.33%
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Active Equity funds
- Median 0.65%
No Emerging Markets Active Equity fund charges less.