iShares Large Cap Growth Active ETF
$44.31−0.43 (−0.96%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $10M
- 1Y return
- +14.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.00%
- Holdings
- 39
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $44.73
- 52W range
The ETF.net BGRO Grade
Score 44 of 100 sits in the C 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.CScore 50Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 46Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 12Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 69Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 53Category rank
Our read on BGRO
CBlackRock's active stock-pickers, unbundled: roughly 30 US large-cap growth names in one ticker instead of a sprawling index. A 2024 arrival that swaps breadth for a concentrated bet on earnings power.
The Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through active exposure to U.S. large-cap growth equities, using a high-conviction, fundamentally driven approach focused on companies with strong growth characteristics and earnings power.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely concentrated. At roughly 30 names, individual picks actually move the fund. This is the high-conviction mutual-fund model in an ETF wrapper, not an index fund wearing an active label.
- The mandate is narrow and written down: US large-cap growth, chosen on fundamentals and earnings power. No drift into small caps or overseas names to chase a hot streak.ishares.com
- 0.55% a year buys active management inside a plain 1940 Act ETF, with the daily transparency and intraday tradability the wrapper requires. Cheap by legacy active-fund standards.
Worth knowing
- A small, thinly traded fund. Bid-ask spreads run wider than the megacap growth giants, which matters more for short holding periods than long ones.
- Launched in 2024, so the record is short. And with about 30 holdings, the ride is inherently lumpier than a broad growth index.
- Cheaper ways to buy large-cap growth exist: FELG charges 0.18% and JUSA 0.12%. The fee gap is what you pay for concentration instead of index-hugging.
BGRO Holdings
- Stocks
- 39
- 48%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology54.0%
- Industrials12.2%
- Communication8.6%
- Materials5.1%
- Consumer Discr.4.5%
- Real Estate4.4%
- Financials4.2%
- Health Care3.1%
- Energy2.2%
- Cons. Staples1.8%
Geography
- United States94.76%
- Canada2.94%
- Ireland2.30%
BGRO 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 | BGRO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.8% |
| 1 month | +3.5% |
| 3 months | +5.6% |
| 1 year | +14.0% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
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 | BGRO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.8% | |
| 2025 | +12.4% | |
| 2024 | +10.9% |
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BGRO Dividends
- 0.00%
No distributions in the last 12 months.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.01 |
BGRO Risk
- 18.9%
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.
- 0.62
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.
- −24.9%
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.
- 1.53
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BGRO Cost
- The middle half of US Active Growth funds
- Median 0.56%
40 of the 89 US Active Growth funds charge less.