Who owns iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB)

How the tape is positioned

181 tracked funds added or opened EMB while 139 trimmed or exited it between 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2 — the tape is split. When large holders disagree on a name, the funds moving first are sometimes ahead of the story.

A prompt to read the filings, not a verdict. 13F is a quarter-end snapshot disclosed up to 45 days late; a fund adds or exits for mandate, benchmark, and timing reasons that have nothing to do with a view on the stock. This is a starting question, not a signal to trade.

Conviction spread

EMB’s largest tracked holder by dollar value, WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN, sizes it at 0.4% of its own reported 13F book, while the median holder sizes it at 0.2% of theirs — a 0.2pp conviction gap — its largest holder concentrates the name more heavily than the typical one.

Book-share is each fund’s reported value in EMB divided by its whole reported 13F book, so it is comparable across funds of different sizes and is unaffected by stock splits. A higher share means a fund has committed more of its book to the name — a starting question about conviction, not a verdict or a signal to trade.

Institutional & insider positioning

Between 2026-Q1 and 2026-Q2, across 806 tracked filers holding EMB, 402 increased or opened the position and 406 reduced or closed it; over the same quarter, there were no open-market insider Form 4s.

This fuses two public signals for the same quarter — how tracked institutions changed their positions and whether insiders bought or sold in the open market. It describes what was filed; it is a starting question, not a verdict or a signal to trade.

Ownership over time

Tracked institutional holder count and total shares held by filing quarter (independent scales). The curated-era tail and any mid-ingest latest quarter are handled honestly — a partial quarter is not drawn as a collapse.