BlackRock Short Maturity Municipal Bond ETF
MEAR CBOE - exBATS
The BlackRock Short Maturity Municipal Bond ETF seeks to maximize tax-free current income, putting cash to work in a low yield environment, while seeking to reduce both taxes and interest rate risk
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- Dividend yield
- 2.83% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 0.9% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.03 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 48.9950.02
How MEAR has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 13Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, MEAR returned +4.3% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +2.9 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±1% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −1.1% on Sep 29, 2026 — 35 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.03 means MEAR has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average49.65 +0.2%
- 26-day average49.70 +0.1%
- 50-day average49.76 −0.1%
- 200-day average49.60 +0.3%
The price is above 3 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 28 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.41
- Last paid
- Oct 1, 2026
Last 12 months
1.41 USD / shareWhere MEAR shows up
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About BlackRock Short Maturity Municipal Bond ETF
The BlackRock Short Maturity Municipal Bond ETF seeks to maximize tax-free current income, putting cash to work in a low yield environment, while seeking to reduce both taxes and interest rate risk
- Featured in 2 curated themes
- Ticker
- MEAR
- Exchange
- CBOE - exBATS
- ISIN
- US46431W8385
- CUSIP
- 46431W838
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Municipals
- Industry
- Short Term
- Benchmark
- Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond: 1 Year (1-2) Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 13, 2026
Dataas of Oct 14, 2026
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