PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund
$100.66−0.01 (−0.01%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.36%
- Fund size
- $17.5B
- 1Y return
- +4.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.14%
- Holdings
- 811
- Volume · 30D
- 1.5M sh
- NAV per share
- $100.68
- 52W range
The ETF.net MINT Grade
Score 64 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.FScore 11Category 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.BScore 67Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 86Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 86Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 89Category rank
Our read on MINT
BPIMCO's parking spot for cash, running since 2009: an active ultra-short bond portfolio of roughly 800 positions built around current income, capital preservation and daily liquidity, paying out monthly.
The Fund seeks maximum current income while emphasizing capital preservation and daily liquidity and applying PIMCO’s ESG investment strategy.
Why people hold it
- Trading since 2009 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that changes hands actively, it sits in the upper half of its cash-alternative peer group on execution and portfolio quality.
- The mandate is plain: maximum current income while emphasizing capital preservation and daily liquidity. Fully active, so managers can shift as short-rate conditions change instead of tracking an index.
- About 800 positions, so no single issuer sets the tone. Income is distributed monthly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.36%, it costs more than the 0.20% cash-alternative median and well above ICSH (0.08%) and JPST (0.18%). Active management is what the extra buys.
- The stated objective folds in PIMCO's ESG investment strategy, which narrows the eligible issuer pool versus a plain ultra-short mandate.
- A 1940 Act fund holding short-maturity bonds, not a bank deposit: the share price moves and principal isn't insured.
MINT Holdings
- Bonds
- 811
- 13%
- US TREASURY N/B 06/31 4.125 4.13% 06/30/2031
Geography
- United States70.30%
- Canada7.44%
- United Kingdom6.93%
- Japan4.73%
- Spain2.09%
- France2.03%
- Ireland1.35%
- Netherlands1.30%
- 3.84%
MINT 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 | MINT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +3.0% |
| 1 month | +0.3% |
| 3 months | +1.0% |
| 1 year | +4.3% |
| 3 years | +5.1% |
| 5 years | +3.7% |
| 10 years | +2.8% |
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 | MINT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +3.0% | |
| 2025 | +4.7% | |
| 2024 | +5.9% | |
| 2023 | +6.3% | |
| 2022 | −1.0% | |
| 2021 | −0.0% | |
| 2020 | +1.6% |
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MINT Dividends
- 4.14%
- $4.16
- $0.34 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.33 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.38 |
MINT Risk
- 0.3%
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.
- 2.20
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.
- −2.4%
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.
- 0.02
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
MINT Cost
- The middle half of Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds
- Median 0.19%
67 of the 77 Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds charge less.