iShares International Dividend Active ETF
$30.63−0.53 (−1.70%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.61%
- Fund size
- $403M
- 1Y return
- +20.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 7.49%
- Holdings
- 48
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $31.12
- 52W range
The ETF.net BIDD Grade
Score 56 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.BScore 61Category 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.DScore 39Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 57Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 57Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 83Category rank
Our read on BIDD
BBlackRock lifted a 1997-vintage international dividend strategy out of its mutual fund shell and dropped it into an ETF. What you get: roughly 50 hand-picked non-US dividend payers, an active manager, and a fee under the peer-group median.
The fund uses active fundamental research to invest in high-quality companies outside the U.S. that pay attractive and growing dividends, providing international equity exposure with an income focus.
Why people hold it
- 0.60% a year sits below the median for active international dividend funds, and well under pricier rivals in the group such as JHID (2.17%) and ADVE (0.79%).
- Not a startup strategy in a new coat: the predecessor mutual fund, running since 1997, rolled its assets into this ETF in a November 2024 reorganization.sec.gov
- Fundamental research picks quality companies outside the US that pay attractive and growing dividends, and the fund distributes quarterly.ishares.com
- Lands in the upper half of a small field of active international dividend funds, with a multi-billion-dollar issuer's operational muscle behind it.
Worth knowing
- Stock picking, not index tracking: about 50 names measured against the MSCI ACWI ex USA benchmark, so the portfolio can drift a long way from it in either direction.
- Thinly traded next to index-tracking international funds, so bid-ask spreads and order type matter more at the moment you trade.
- The exchange-traded history starts with the late-2024 conversion, so ETF-level trading and risk data is short even though the strategy itself is old.sec.gov
BIDD Holdings
- Stocks
- 48
- 34%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Financials26.0%
- Technology22.7%
- Industrials17.1%
- Communication9.0%
- Consumer Discr.7.0%
- Materials6.1%
- Energy5.3%
- Health Care4.5%
- Cons. Staples2.3%
Geography
- Japan14.17%
- United Kingdom12.28%
- Taiwan9.90%
- South Korea7.82%
- China7.58%
- France7.21%
- Germany7.18%
- Netherlands6.43%
- 27.41%
Developed 66% · Emerging 34%
BIDD 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 | BIDD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.8% |
| 1 month | +0.6% |
| 3 months | +1.5% |
| 1 year | +20.0% |
| 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 | BIDD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.8% | |
| 2025 | +20.2% | |
| 2024 | −2.1% |
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BIDD Dividends
- 7.49%
- $2.33
- $0.08 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.83 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.40 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.01 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.03 |
BIDD Risk
- 12.6%
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.
- 1.01
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.
- −15.1%
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.
- 0.87
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BIDD Cost
- The middle half of International Active Dividend Income funds
- Median 0.63%
2 of the 6 International Active Dividend Income funds charge less.