NEAR - iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF
The primary aim of this active iShares fund is to achieve a total return that surpasses its designated benchmark.
As of Oct 13, 2026: spot at $49.88, ATM IV 68.7%, max pain $50.00, net GEX $2.4K.
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management - Bonds
- Market Cap
- $4.73B
- Beta
- 0.23
- 52-Week Range
- 49.68-51.37
- Dividend Yield
- $2.25
- IPO Date
- Sep 25, 2013
- Exchange
- CBOE
What NEAR Looks Like to Options Traders Today
IV rank of 40.4% sits near the 1-year median, where strategy choice depends on directional conviction and the event calendar rather than vol regime alone; positive net gamma exposure ($2.4K) means dealers hedge against trend, damping realized volatility and biasing price toward heavy-OI strikes; the 25-delta skew (0.001) is roughly flat across the wings.
What This Page Covers
The NEAR overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure.
NEAR fund facts: expense ratio 0.25%, assets under management $5.11B, NAV $49.83 as of the data source's update on Oct 7, 2026, 1,883 holdings in its latest file, launched Sep 25, 2013, issued by IShares. See the NEAR holdings.
Frequently asked NEAR overview questions
- What is NEAR?
- NEAR is the ticker symbol for iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF, an listed exchange-traded fund. The primary aim of this active iShares fund is to achieve a total return that surpasses its designated benchmark. Listed on CBOE. NEAR is the ETF ticker shown on this page; ETF traders use the fund for diversified exposure to its underlying basket, for sector and factor rotation, and for hedging or replication strategies via the listed options chain.
- What does the NEAR options snapshot look like today?
- As of Oct 13, 2026, the NEAR options snapshot shows spot at $49.88, ATM IV 68.7%, IV rank 40.4%, max pain $50.00, net GEX $2.4K, expected move 19.70%. The full options chain, Greeks by strike and expiration, per-strike open-interest distribution, dealer gamma and delta exposure, and the volatility skew surface are linked from this overview page. Each per-metric route refreshes once per trading session and reflects the most recent close-of-business listed-options state.
- What are NEAR's key statistics?
- iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF (NEAR) carries a market capitalization of $4.73B, 52-week range of 49.68-51.37. Full holdings disclosure, expense ratio, and tracking-error history live on the per-ticker fundamentals page or the sponsor's site; daily NAV and premium/discount-to-NAV are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the ETF options market prices implied volatility relative to its constituents.
- What sector or industry does NEAR belong to?
- iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF operates in the Financial Services sector, in the Asset Management - Bonds industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare NEAR's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the NEAR data on this page?
- The options snapshot above is dated Oct 13, 2026 and refreshes once per session, with all per-strike Greeks and exposure aggregates recomputed at the daily close. Fund-level fields (sponsor, expense ratio, holdings concentration where available) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. ETF-specific filings (N-CSR, N-PX, N-CEN) update on the SEC EDGAR cadence. FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence; for ETFs the off-exchange volume signal is dominated by authorized-participant creation and redemption rather than directional flow.