iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Growth ETF
$59.17−0.59 (−0.98%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.18%
- Fund size
- $29M
- 1Y return
- +15.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.19%
- Holdings
- 106
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $59.63
- 52W range
The ETF.net EGUS 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.CScore 51Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 99Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 34Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 28Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 28Category rank
Our read on EGUS
BMost ESG funds live in the middle of the market. EGUS moves the screen into the growth style box: it starts from MSCI's US large- and mid-cap growth universe, then optimizes toward better-rated ESG names while targeting risk and return close to the unscreened parent index.
The Fund seeks to track an index of U.S. large- and mid-capitalization equities with growth characteristics and positive environmental, social and governance characteristics.
Why people hold it
- Not a bolt-on. The index is built by optimizing the MSCI USA Growth parent for ESG exposure while aiming to keep risk and return characteristics similar to it.msci.com
- Hard exclusions, not vibes: tobacco, controversial weapons, civilian firearms, thermal coal and oil sands are ineligible for the index.msci.com
- 0.18% a year buys the screen plus standard iShares index plumbing. Roughly 90 large- and mid-cap growth names, with distributions paid quarterly.ishares.com
- A 2023 launch that does exactly what the label says: US growth, ESG-screened, index-tracked, with the objective spelled out in the registration statement.
Worth knowing
- Small and thinly traded next to the big growth trackers, so bid-ask spreads can run wider and large orders need more care.
- Unscreened growth trackers charge far less (VUG at 0.03%, SCHG at 0.04%) than this fund's 0.18%. The ESG optimizer is what the extra buys.
- Roughly 90 names, and the optimizer can leave out growth companies you'd expect to see, so returns can drift from a plain growth index in either direction.msci.com
EGUS Holdings
- Stocks
- 106
- 64%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology53.1%
- Consumer Discr.13.2%
- Communication11.2%
- Industrials7.8%
- Health Care6.6%
- Financials4.4%
- Materials1.2%
- Real Estate1.1%
- Energy1.0%
- Cons. Staples0.3%
- Utilities0.1%
Geography
- United States97.68%
- Ireland1.20%
- Singapore0.57%
- Uruguay0.30%
- Australia0.17%
- Cayman Islands0.08%
EGUS 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 | EGUS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.1% |
| 1 month | +2.5% |
| 3 months | +3.1% |
| 1 year | +15.1% |
| 3 years | +26.8% |
| 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 | EGUS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.1% | |
| 2025 | +19.0% | |
| 2024 | +32.9% | |
| 2023 | +28.6% |
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EGUS Dividends
- 0.19%
- $0.12
- $0.03 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.03 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.02 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.02 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.03 |
EGUS Risk
- 17.6%
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.
- 1.03
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.
- 1.24
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EGUS Cost
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
15 of the 35 US Growth Index funds charge less.