iShares MSCI ACWI ex U.S. ETF
$76.64−1.20 (−1.54%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.32%
- Fund size
- $12.5B
- 1Y return
- +23.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.44%
- Holdings
- 1871
- Volume · 30D
- 2.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $77.52
- 52W range
The ETF.net ACWX Grade
Score 58 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 23Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 70Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 46Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 60Category rank
Our read on ACWX
BOne ticker for everything outside America: roughly 1,900 large and mid-cap stocks across developed and emerging markets, running since 2008. The convenience is real, and so is the price tag next to its cheaper index cousins.
The Fund seeks to track an index of large- and mid-capitalization non-U.S. equities. Its index covers developed and emerging markets excluding the United States, and the Fund uses representative sampling while generally investing at least 80% in index components or substantially identical instruments.
Why people hold it
- Owns the world minus the US in a single trade: developed and emerging markets, large and mid caps, roughly 1,900 stocks.
- Trading since 2008 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that changes hands actively, which matters when you want in or out without friction.
- No style drift. It keeps at least 80% in index components and stays a plain vanilla ex-US index fund, one of the cleaner implementations in its peer group.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- 0.32% a year sits above the peer median of 0.28%, and well above iShares' own IXUS (0.07%) or VEU (0.04%), which cover similar ground.
- Representative sampling means it holds a slice of the index rather than every name, so results can diverge somewhat from the benchmark.ishares.com
- Payouts land once or twice a year rather than quarterly, and the basket mixes emerging markets in with developed ones.
ACWX Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,871
- 16%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Financials25.4%
- Technology21.8%
- Industrials13.6%
- Materials6.9%
- Health Care6.9%
- Consumer Discr.6.8%
- Energy4.9%
- Cons. Staples4.9%
- Communication4.7%
- Utilities2.9%
- Real Estate1.2%
Geography
- Japan14.41%
- Taiwan (Province of China)9.14%
- Canada8.16%
- United Kingdom8.13%
- Korea (the Republic of)6.88%
- China5.95%
- Switzerland5.77%
- Germany5.15%
- 36.41%
Developed 67% · Emerging 33%
ACWX Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | ACWX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.2% |
| 1 month | −0.1% |
| 3 months | +0.6% |
| 1 year | +23.2% |
| 3 years | +21.1% |
| 5 years | +9.7% |
| 10 years | +9.2% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | ACWX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.2% | |
| 2025 | +32.6% | |
| 2024 | +5.2% | |
| 2023 | +15.7% | |
| 2022 | −16.0% | |
| 2021 | +7.7% | |
| 2020 | +10.3% |
ACWX in the news
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ACWX Dividends
- 2.44%
- $1.90
- $0.85 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.85 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.05 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.85 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.77 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.78 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.71 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.80 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.38 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.84 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.09 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.82 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.62 |
ACWX Risk
- 12.0%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.20
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −29.1%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.84
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ACWX Cost
- The middle half of Total International Market funds
- Median 0.23%
6 of the 8 Total International Market funds charge less.