iShares ESG Advanced Universal USD Bond ETF
$41.91−0.35 (−0.84%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.12%
- Fund size
- $706M
- 1Y return
- +0.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.07%
- Holdings
- 4417
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.27
- 52W range
The ETF.net EUSB Grade
Score 75 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 79Category 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 50Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 58Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 78Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on EUSB
AA total-bond-market build with a conscience clause: thousands of taxable dollar bonds, screened for ESG ratings and stripped of fossil fuel issuers, at a fee well under the typical broad bond ETF.
The Fund seeks to track the Bloomberg MSCI US Universal Choice ESG Screened Index, an index of U.S. dollar-denominated taxable bonds with favorable ESG ratings and extensive screens, including fossil-fuel exclusions.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.12% a year, well below the median fee in its broad-bond group and cheap for a rules-screened portfolio.
- The screens are the product: favorable ESG ratings plus extensive exclusions, fossil fuels included, written into the index rather than left to a manager's mood.ishares.com
- Spreads exposure across several thousand US dollar taxable bonds and pays monthly, so the income cadence is steady.
- Delivers the mandate it advertises, one of the tighter ESG implementations among broad bond funds we grade.
Worth knowing
- Screening changes the mix. Cutting fossil fuel issuers means the portfolio's sector map and results can diverge from a plain total-bond index.
- Cheap, not cheapest: unscreened aggregate peers like BND, SPAB and SCHZ run 0.03%.
- Smaller and less actively traded than the core bond giants, which can show up as wider bid-ask spreads on larger orders.
EUSB Holdings
- Bonds
- 4,417
- 7%
- BLK CSH FND TREASURY SL AGENCY
Geography
- United States97.91%
- United Arab Emirates0.52%
- Qatar0.27%
- China0.14%
- Saudi Arabia0.14%
- Romania0.13%
- Hungary0.11%
- Kuwait0.11%
- 0.67%
EUSB 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 | EUSB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.2% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | +0.2% |
| 3 years | +4.5% |
| 5 years | −0.2% |
| 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 | EUSB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.2% | |
| 2025 | +7.5% | |
| 2024 | +1.8% | |
| 2023 | +5.8% | |
| 2022 | −12.8% | |
| 2021 | −1.3% | |
| 2020 | +1.7% |
EUSB in the news
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EUSB Dividends
- 4.07%
- $1.72
- $0.15 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.15 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.15 |
EUSB Risk
- 5.4%
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.
- −0.01
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.
- −17.3%
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.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
EUSB Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
21 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.