iShares ESG Aware U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
$45.65−0.42 (−0.92%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.10%
- Fund size
- $5.0B
- 1Y return
- −0.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.12%
- Holdings
- 5120
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.04
- 52W range
The ETF.net EAGG Grade
Score 79 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 82Category 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 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 84Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 72Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 82Category rank
Our read on EAGG
AThe U.S. bond market's default index, run through a values filter: the same investment-grade universe, tilted toward issuers with better ESG assessments and screened on certain businesses, at 0.10% a year.
The fund seeks to track the Bloomberg MSCI US Aggregate ESG Focus Index, an index of U.S.-dollar-denominated investment-grade bonds from issuers assessed for favorable environmental, social, and governance practices.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.10% a year, well under the typical aggregate-bond fund, so the ESG screen does not come with a specialty-product price tag.ishares.com
- Roughly 5,000 U.S.-dollar investment-grade bonds inside, spread across Treasuries, agency paper and corporates. No single issuer swings it.
- Pays monthly, and tracks the Bloomberg MSCI US Aggregate ESG Focus Index tightly. Among the cleaner implementations in the core-bond group.
- A multi-billion-dollar iShares fund trading since 2018, with the plumbing and market-maker attention that comes with a big core-bond ETF.
Worth knowing
- Unscreened Agg trackers (BND, SPAB, SCHZ) run 0.03%. The ESG version asks for a few extra basis points each year.
- The index reweights toward higher-rated ESG issuers and applies business-involvement screens, so the bond mix (and results) can drift from the plain Agg either way.ishares.com
- Still a rate-sensitive bond fund: broad-maturity investment-grade debt loses value when yields rise, screens or not.ishares.com
EAGG Holdings
- Bonds
- 5,120
- 9%
- BLACKROCK CASH CL INST SL AGENCY
Geography
- United States90.54%
- Canada2.58%
- United Kingdom1.69%
- Luxembourg0.86%
- Japan0.73%
- Ireland0.72%
- Netherlands0.58%
- Australia0.28%
- 2.02%
EAGG 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 | EAGG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.1% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | −0.0% |
| 3 years | +4.2% |
| 5 years | −0.6% |
| 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 | EAGG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.1% | |
| 2025 | +7.2% | |
| 2024 | +1.1% | |
| 2023 | +5.6% | |
| 2022 | −13.6% | |
| 2021 | −1.3% | |
| 2020 | +7.4% |
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EAGG Dividends
- 4.12%
- $1.90
- $0.16 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.16 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.16 |
EAGG Risk
- 5.6%
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.
- −0.09
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.
- −17.8%
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.
- 1.00
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EAGG Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
17 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.