EMB Bonds — EM Debt ETF (EMB)

EMB Bonds — EM Debt ETF — analysis

In the bonds — em debt group, EMB Bonds — EM Debt ETF (EMB) has gathered $5.1B. The cost line is 26 bps per year, the benchmark is Bloomberg US Agg Bond Index, and the fund has traded since 2022.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, EMB scores 62/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 29% of the fund. That places EMB in above-average composite quality territory inside the Bonds — EM Debt cohort.

EMB compounded at 8.3% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 7.0% on the benchmark. The 1.3-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on EMB is 0.80%, with distributions growing at 2.3% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

EMB weight stack: top 10 names equal 29%, sector tilt Technology 34%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.56%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as EMB: SPY, VOO, VTI. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.