VanEck Moody’s Analytics BBB Corporate Bond ETF
$20.57−0.14 (−0.65%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.25%
- Fund size
- $5M
- 1Y return
- −0.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.24%
- Holdings
- 173
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $20.75
- 52W range
The ETF.net MBBB Grade
Score 40 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E. A structural cap ceilings this fund at 40, so B and A are out of reach.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 57Category 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 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 9Category 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.DScore 27Category rank
Our read on MBBB
CBBB is the crowded bottom rung of investment grade. MBBB doesn't just buy the whole rung: it tracks a Moody's Analytics index that screens for BBB bonds that look attractively valued with comparatively lower downgrade risk.
The fund seeks to track the price and yield performance of the MVIS Moody’s Analytics US BBB Corporate Bond Index, which selects attractively valued BBB-rated corporate bonds with comparatively lower downgrade risk.
Why people hold it
- A credit screen, not a size-weighted index. The MVIS Moody's Analytics US BBB index selects on valuation and downgrade risk, which is the risk that actually matters at the edge of investment grade.vaneck.com
- It does the job it advertises: the portfolio has hugged its stated index closely, which is the whole assignment for a rules-based bond fund.
- Roughly 170 corporate bonds, spread across a single credit tier, with distributions paid on a monthly cadence.
Worth knowing
- The screen costs 0.25% a year. Plain-vanilla corporate bond giants like VCIT, USIG and SPIB run at a few basis points, so the model has to earn that gap.
- Small and thinly traded since its 2020 launch, so spreads can run wider than in the household-name corporate bond funds.
- By design it holds a filtered slice of BBB debt, not the whole market, so results can drift from a standard investment-grade corporate benchmark in either direction.
MBBB Holdings
- Other
- 173
- 14%
- At&T Inc
Geography
- United States81.69%
- France6.52%
- Canada5.96%
- Netherlands2.11%
- Mexico0.93%
- Norway0.61%
- United Kingdom0.55%
- Poland0.54%
- 1.07%
MBBB 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 | MBBB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.2% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | −1.7% |
| 1 year | −0.8% |
| 3 years | +5.8% |
| 5 years | +0.2% |
| 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 | MBBB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.2% | |
| 2025 | +7.6% | |
| 2024 | +3.7% | |
| 2023 | +9.7% | |
| 2022 | −15.0% | |
| 2021 | +0.3% | |
| 2020 | +1.5% |
MBBB in the news
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MBBB Dividends
- 5.24%
- $1.08
- $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 | $0.09 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.11 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.09 |
| 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 | $0.09 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.09 |
MBBB 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.
- 0.18
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.
- −21.7%
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.
- 1.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MBBB Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.30%
20 of the 49 Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.