VanEck Vectors® Short Muni ETF
SMB CBOE - exBATS
The VanEck Vectors® Short Muni ETF (SMB®) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Bloomberg Barclays AMT-Free Short Continuous Municipal Index (LMT1TR), which is intended to track the overall performance of the U.S. dollar denomina...
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- Fund size
- 208M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.20% per year
- Dividend yield
- 2.85% Monthly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 1.8% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.03 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 16.8017.20
How SMB 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, SMB returned +3.6% 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 ±2% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −2.3% on Sep 29, 2026 — 85 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.03 means SMB 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
Downtrend- 12-day average16.95 +0.4%
- 26-day average16.97 +0.3%
- 50-day average17.02 +0.0%
- 200-day average17.02 −0.0%
The price is above 3 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is below the 200-day, a sign of a falling 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.
Inside the fund
Municipals · Short Term — tracking the Bloomberg Barclays AMT-Free Short Continuous Municipal Index.
- Assets under management208MUSD
- Expense ratio0.20%per year
- Holdings549
- Risk score1.4Low
Launched February 2008. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 29 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.49
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Last paid
- Oct 1, 2026
Last 12 months
0.49 USD / shareWhere SMB shows up
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About VanEck Vectors® Short Muni ETF
The VanEck Vectors® Short Muni ETF (SMB®) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Bloomberg Barclays AMT-Free Short Continuous Municipal Index (LMT1TR), which is intended to track the overall performance of the U.S. dollar denominated short-term tax-exempt bond market.
- Featured in 2 curated themes
- 549 holdings
- Ticker
- SMB
- Exchange
- CBOE - exBATS
- ISIN
- US92189F5281
- CUSIP
- 92189F528
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Municipals
- Industry
- Short Term
- Benchmark
- Bloomberg Barclays AMT-Free Short Continuous Municipal Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 13, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.