
iShares Prime Money Market ETF
$100.25−0.06 (−0.06%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $748M
- 1Y return
- +2.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.83%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $100.30
- 52W range
The ETF.net PMMF Grade
Score 63 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.CScore 41Category 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 49Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 71Category 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.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on PMMF
BMoney market discipline in an ETF shell. PMMF runs a short-term credit portfolio under the SEC's strict Rule 2a-7 money fund rules, pays income monthly, and trades on an exchange during the day.
The fund seeks current income consistent with liquidity and principal stability while providing intraday trading flexibility.
Why people hold it
- Held to Rule 2a-7, the SEC's money market rulebook, for credit quality, maturity and liquidity, with daily portfolio disclosure.blackrock.com
- Prime, not government-only. It buys short-term corporate credit instead of sticking to Treasury and agency paper, spread across roughly 120 positions.blackrock.com
- What it holds lines up with what it promises: current income with liquidity and principal stability, plus intraday trading. Monthly distributions.
- The 0.20% fee sits right at the median for cash-alternative funds, so the ETF wrapper doesn't carry a novelty premium.
Worth knowing
- Cheaper parking spots exist: ICSH at 0.08% and JPST at 0.18%. Both are ultra-short bond funds, though, not 2a-7 money market funds.
- Shares change hands at a market price driven by supply and demand as well as NAV, which is a different experience from a traditional money fund account.dividend.com
- Prime paper carries issuer credit risk that Treasury-only cash funds sidestep. Launched in 2025, so its record is still short.blackrock.com
PMMF Holdings
- Other
- —
- 47%
- TRI-PARTY J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES L
Geography
- United States100.00%
PMMF 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 | PMMF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.5% |
| 1 month | +0.3% |
| 3 months | — |
| 1 year | +2.6% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | PMMF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.5% | |
| 2025 | +3.8% |
PMMF in the news
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PMMF Dividends
- 3.83%
- $3.84
- $0.07 per share
- Weekly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2026 | Sep 17, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Aug 20, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Aug 13, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Jul 23, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 2, 2026 | $0.07 |
PMMF Risk
- 0.2%
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.
- −0.89
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.
- −0.1%
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.
- −0.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PMMF Cost
- The middle half of Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds
- Median 0.19%
40 of the 77 Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds charge less.