iShares ESG Aware MSCI EAFE ETF
$103.86−1.90 (−1.79%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $12.1B
- 1Y return
- +17.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.24%
- Holdings
- 331
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $105.25
- 52W range
The ETF.net ESGD 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 71Category 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 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 83Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 76Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 96Category rank
Our read on ESGD
AThe plain-vanilla international index fund, ESG-screened. Roughly 400 developed-market stocks from outside the US and Canada, tracking an MSCI EAFE ESG Focus index since 2016, for 0.20% a year.
The fund seeks to track an index of international developed-market stocks outside the United States and Canada that have positive aggregate environmental, social, and governance characteristics.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.20% a year, below the typical fee in its international ESG peer group.
- Roughly 400 stocks spanning developed markets outside the US and Canada: broad-market coverage, not a narrow thematic bet.ishares.com
- Tracks the MSCI EAFE Extended ESG Focus Index, keeping the familiar developed-markets shape while tilting toward companies with better aggregate ESG characteristics.ishares.com
- A multi-billion-dollar fund trading since 2016, and one of the sturdier builds in its peer group.
Worth knowing
- Cheaper tickets exist on the same shelf: VSGX at 0.10%, iShares' own DMXF at 0.12%. The fee here buys scale, not the lowest sticker.
- The ESG screen leaves holdings different from a plain EAFE fund, so results can drift from the unscreened index in either direction.
- Moderately traded rather than one of the busiest tapes in the category, and distributions land once or twice a year rather than monthly.
ESGD Holdings
- Stocks
- 331
- 14%
- ASML.AS
Sectors
- Financials27.5%
- Industrials18.5%
- Technology12.2%
- Health Care9.8%
- Consumer Discr.6.7%
- Cons. Staples6.5%
- Materials5.2%
- Communication4.4%
- Energy3.8%
- Utilities3.5%
- Real Estate2.0%
Geography
- Japan24.29%
- United Kingdom13.46%
- Switzerland10.12%
- France8.29%
- Germany8.25%
- Australia6.56%
- Netherlands6.53%
- Spain4.41%
- 18.10%
Developed 99% · Emerging 1%
ESGD 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 | ESGD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.0% |
| 1 month | −1.4% |
| 3 months | +2.1% |
| 1 year | +17.8% |
| 3 years | +18.3% |
| 5 years | +8.9% |
| 10 years | +9.4% |
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 | ESGD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.0% | |
| 2025 | +29.6% | |
| 2024 | +4.0% | |
| 2023 | +18.6% | |
| 2022 | −15.1% | |
| 2021 | +11.8% | |
| 2020 | +8.2% |
ESGD in the news
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ESGD Dividends
- 3.24%
- $3.42
- $1.63 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.63 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.79 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $1.63 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $1.01 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $1.46 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.92 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $1.37 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.31 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $1.40 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.11 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $1.01 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $1.06 |
ESGD Risk
- 12.1%
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.
- 1.04
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.
- −29.9%
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.
- 0.88
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ESGD Cost
- The middle half of International ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.26%
5 of the 18 International ESG & Values Index funds charge less.