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The iShares Barclays CMBS Bond Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Bloomberg U.S. CMBS (ERISA Only) Index. The index measures the performance of investment-grade commercial mortgage-backed securities, which are classes of securities that represent interests in pools of commercial mortgages. The index includes only CMBS that are Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, which will deem ERISA eligible the certificates with the first priority of principal repayment, as long as certain conditions are met, including the requirement that the certificates be rated in one of the three highest rating categories by Fitch, Inc., Moody s Investors Services or Standard & Poor s.
iShares Cmbs ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol CMBS.
As of December 12, 2025, CMBS stock price declined to $49.08 with 43,913 million shares trading.
CMBS has a beta of -0.02, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CMBS has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.
CMBS has a market cap of $495.66 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, CMBS traded as high as $50.09 and as low as $44.19.
CMBS has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +6.2%, while the SPY ETF gained +14.0%. In the last 3 month period, CMBS fell short of the market, returning +0.5%, while SPY returned +4.0%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks CMBS has outperformed the stock market by returning -0.1%, while SPY returned -0.2%.
CMBS support price is $48.74 and resistance is $49.48 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CMBS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.