ETRACS Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index ETN Series B
MLPB NYSE Arca
The ETRACS Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index ETN Series B is designed to track the performance of the Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index (the "Index") and may pay a variable quarterly coupon linked to the cash distributions paid on the Master Limited Partnerships in the index, less investor fees.
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- Fund size
- 171M as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.85% per year
- Dividend yield
- 4.44% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 14.1% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.45 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 22.6331.84
How MLPB has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 12Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, MLPB returned +36.6% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +5.8 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 ±14% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −9.3% on Jun 24, 2026 — 36 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 14% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.45 means MLPB 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 average29.76 −0.6%
- 26-day average30.13 −1.8%
- 50-day average30.25 −2.1%
- 200-day average28.67 +3.2%
The price is above 1 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.
Inside the fund
Commodities (Energy ETNs) · MLPs — tracking the Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index.
- Assets under management171MUSD
- Expense ratio0.85%per year
- Risk score7.4High
Launched October 2015. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 44 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.32
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Jul 14, 2026
Last 12 months
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About ETRACS Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index ETN Series B
The ETRACS Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index ETN Series B is designed to track the performance of the Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index (the "Index") and may pay a variable quarterly coupon linked to the cash distributions paid on the Master Limited Partnerships in the index, less investor fees.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- MLPB
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US90274D3825
- CUSIP
- 90274D382
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Commodities (Energy ETNs)
- Industry
- MLPs
- Benchmark
- Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.