iShares Energy Storage & Materials ETF
$40.35−0.81 (−1.97%)
History starts Mar 21, 2024.
- Expense ratio
- 0.47%
- Fund size
- $63M
- 1Y return
- +45.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.74%
- Holdings
- 82
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $40.64
- 52W range
The ETF.net IBAT Grade
Score 66 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.AScore 84Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 76Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 40Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 52Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 37Category rank
Our read on IBAT
BMost EV funds buy carmakers. IBAT drops a layer down the supply chain to the batteries, hydrogen, fuel cells and storage materials underneath, tracking a global STOXX index at a fee that undercuts much of its thematic peer group.
The fund seeks to track an index of global companies involved in battery technologies, hydrogen, fuel cells, and other energy-storage solutions. It provides targeted exposure to companies supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Why people hold it
- 0.47% a year, cheaper than Global X's DRIV (0.68%) and Amplify's BATT (0.59%).
- Buys the storage layer, not the showroom: battery technology, hydrogen, fuel cells and the materials that feed them.ishares.com
- Global mandate, roughly 80 holdings: miners, chemical firms and equipment makers a US large-cap index never touches.
- Sits in the upper tier of its battery and EV thematic group on our review.
Worth knowing
- One theme, one supply chain. Battery and materials demand drives the whole basket in the same direction at the same time.
- BlackRock applies business involvement screens, so the portfolio is a filtered slice of the industry rather than the full map.ishares.com
- Launched in 2024, so the record is short and payouts come once or twice a year at most. Not an income holding.
IBAT Holdings
- Stocks
- 82
- 54%
- BE
Sectors
- Industrials43.8%
- Materials36.2%
- Technology17.8%
- Consumer Discr.2.1%
- Utilities0.2%
Geography
- Japan27.59%
- United States21.88%
- South Korea13.57%
- France10.12%
- China7.54%
- Germany7.06%
- Taiwan4.00%
- Ireland3.59%
- 4.66%
Developed 67% · Emerging 33%
IBAT Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
IBAT$14,566
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 | IBAT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +44.1% |
| 1 month | +3.0% |
| 3 months | −13.9% |
| 1 year | +45.7% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | IBAT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +44.1% | |
| 2025 | +32.1% | |
| 2024 | −13.2% |
IBAT in the news
IBAT Dividends
- 0.74%
- $0.30
- $0.18 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.18 |
IBAT Risk
- 30.1%
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.
- 0.68
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.
- −28.2%
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.
- 1.57
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IBAT Cost
0.47%
IBAT0.47%
- The middle half of Clean Energy funds
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