iShares MSCI Israel ETF
$124.94−1.85 (−1.46%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.59%
- Fund size
- $923M
- 1Y return
- +36.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.47%
- Holdings
- 123
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $126.40
- 52W range
The ETF.net EIS 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.FScore 18Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 49Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 50Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 60Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 67Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 66Category rank
Our read on EIS
COne ticker for the whole Israeli stock market: roughly 120 names, large down to small, tracked through an MSCI index and packaged by iShares since 2008.
The fund seeks to track an index composed of Israeli equities, providing targeted exposure to companies in Israel.
Why people hold it
- "Investable Market" in the index name means mid and small caps ride along, roughly 120 holdings instead of a top-ten roster of giants.ishares.com
- Live since March 2008, so it comes with a long public record across multiple market cycles rather than a short history and a backtest.
- The index is capped, which limits how much of the fund any single company can occupy in a market where a few names loom large.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- At 0.59%, it runs above the roughly 0.50% median for single-country developed-market funds, and well above index peers such as FLKR at 0.09%.
- One country, one currency, one headline cycle. A single-country fund concentrates risks that a regional or global mandate would spread around.
- Distributions arrive annually or semiannually, not on a quarterly drumbeat, so cash lands in lumps.
EIS Holdings
- Stocks
- 123
- 54%
- TEVA.TA
Sectors
- Financials36.1%
- Technology18.1%
- Health Care10.7%
- Industrials10.0%
- Real Estate8.2%
- Utilities6.2%
- Communication2.5%
- Consumer Discr.2.4%
- Cons. Staples2.0%
- Energy2.0%
- Materials1.7%
Geography
- Israel99.48%
- Singapore0.29%
- Netherlands0.20%
- United States0.03%
Developed 0% · Emerging 100%
EIS 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 | EIS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.9% |
| 1 month | +3.2% |
| 3 months | +4.7% |
| 1 year | +36.1% |
| 3 years | +34.6% |
| 5 years | +13.3% |
| 10 years | +11.5% |
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 | EIS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.9% | |
| 2025 | +45.1% | |
| 2024 | +34.5% | |
| 2023 | +5.5% | |
| 2022 | −27.0% | |
| 2021 | +22.8% | |
| 2020 | +12.0% |
EIS in the news
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EIS Dividends
- 1.47%
- $1.86
- $0.77 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.77 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.09 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.49 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.55 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.52 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.26 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.55 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.33 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.60 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.69 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.12 |
| Jun 15, 2020 | Jun 19, 2020 | $0.11 |
EIS Risk
- 22.2%
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.
- 1.18
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.
- −41.9%
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.
- 1.05
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EIS Cost
- The middle half of Developed Single Country funds
- Median 0.50%
28 of the 38 Developed Single Country funds charge less.