JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Sovereign Bond ETF
$38.83−0.41 (−1.04%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.39%
- Fund size
- $98M
- 1Y return
- +3.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.81%
- Holdings
- 213
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $39.16
- 52W range
The ETF.net JPMB Grade
Score 62 of 100 sits in the B 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.BScore 59Category 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.DScore 38Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 46Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 47Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 53Category rank
Our read on JPMB
BEmerging-market debt without the currency guessing game: dollar-denominated bonds from sovereigns, state-owned borrowers and corporates, roughly 200 of them, at 0.39% a year. Income lands monthly.
The fund seeks to track an index of U.S.-dollar-denominated bonds issued by emerging-market sovereign, quasi-sovereign, and corporate entities.
Why people hold it
- 0.39% a year undercuts the 0.50% median fee among its emerging-market debt peers, and none of them charges less.
- The index does the driving, and the fund has stayed very close to it: one of the tighter tracking records in its peer group.
- Roughly 200 bonds across sovereign, quasi-sovereign and corporate issuers, so the credit exposure is spread out rather than parked on a few governments.
- Pays monthly, and it has been running since 2018 under the J.P. Morgan roof.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded and modest in assets, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than at the category's largest funds.
- Dollar-denominated bonds sidestep local-currency swings, not risk. Prices still move with US interest rates and emerging-market credit sentiment.
- The fee edge is shared: EMBD matches the same 0.39%, so cost alone will not settle the choice.
JPMB Holdings
- Bonds
- 213
- 14%
- FEDERATIVE 6.625% 03/35
Sectors
- Government89.6%
- Corporate10.4%
Geography
- Turkey7.95%
- Brazil6.78%
- Colombia6.33%
- Dominican Republic5.99%
- South Africa5.15%
- Bahrain4.78%
- Nigeria4.66%
- Mexico4.50%
- 53.86%
Developed 2% · Emerging 98%
JPMB 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 | JPMB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.0% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | −1.1% |
| 1 year | +3.0% |
| 3 years | +7.9% |
| 5 years | +1.1% |
| 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 | JPMB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.0% | |
| 2025 | +13.7% | |
| 2024 | +1.5% | |
| 2023 | +9.5% | |
| 2022 | −16.1% | |
| 2021 | −2.3% | |
| 2020 | +5.4% |
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JPMB Dividends
- 5.81%
- $2.28
- $0.15 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.19 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.20 |
JPMB Risk
- 7.4%
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.
- 0.40
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.
- −25.6%
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.
- 1.12
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
JPMB Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Bonds (US Dollar) funds
- Median 0.40%
5 of the 17 Emerging Markets Bonds (US Dollar) funds charge less.