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iShares iBonds Dec 2027 Term Corporate ETF

IBDSNYSE ArcaiSharesA

$24.070.00 (−0.02%)

At close: Nov 2, 2026, 4:00 PM ET

Intraday session: down, 79 prints from 24.07 to 24.07. Range 23.97 to 24.09. Use the arrow keys to read each point.23.9824.0024.0224.0510 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM
Expense ratio
0.10%
Fund size
$4.01B
1Y total return
+3.6%
Yield · Last 12 months
4.27%
Holdings
648
Avg volume · 30D
642K sh
52W range
low $24.03high $24.37
Launched
Filings
SEC EDGAR

The ETF.net IBDS Grade

Based on 5 of 6 pillars

A

Score 70 out of 100

Rank
11 of 43
Six-pillar profile for IBDS. Scores out of 100: Cost 50, Risk 82, Mission not scored, Tradability 83, Holdings 88, Durability 85. Strongest: Holdings (88). Weakest: Cost (50). Based on 5 of 6 pillars.

Score 70 of 100 falls in the A band. A is 70 or higher, B 55 to under 70, C 40 to under 55, D 25 to under 40, F under 25.

  • Cost

    The fund’s net expense ratio, ranked against its category.
    C50 out of 100
    Rank 11 of 42
  • Mission

    Whether the fund did what it promised, tested against its stated mandate.
    Not scored
  • Risk

    How the fund held up when markets fell: downside volatility, drawdowns and tail loss.
    A82 out of 100
    Rank 6 of 43
  • Tradability

    How easy the fund is to trade: daily volume, and how far its price strays from net asset value.
    A83 out of 100
    Rank 4 of 43
  • Holdings

    How concentrated the fund is, and how complete and current its disclosed holdings are.
    A88 out of 100
    Rank 4 of 42
  • Durability

    Whether the fund is likely to stay open, judged by its age, its assets and its issuer’s assets.
    A85 out of 100
    Rank 2 of 43

Our read on IBDS

ETF.net Research

In short

AA bond fund with an expiration date. IBDS holds a basket of investment-grade corporate bonds that all mature in 2027, pays monthly along the way, then winds up around December 15, 2027 and returns remaining assets to shareholders.

Stated mandate

The fund seeks to track an index of U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade corporate bonds maturing in 2027. It is a term fund that winds up around December 15, 2027, distributing its remaining assets to shareholders.

Why people hold it

  • Acts like a single bond rather than a perpetual fund: the wind-up date (around December 15, 2027) and the final distribution of remaining assets are written into the fund's own documents.
  • Diversification hard to build by hand: about 700 dollar-denominated investment-grade corporate bonds in one ticker, tracking the Bloomberg December 2027 Maturity Corporate Index.ishares.com
  • 0.10% a year, in line with the median target-maturity bond fund, from a lineup that has been running these dated rungs since well before this one launched in 2017.
  • A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively and pays monthly, so the ladder rung stays liquid instead of locking you in until maturity.

Worth knowing

  • Corporate credit, not Treasuries. Issuers can be downgraded or default, and the payout at wind-up isn't fixed the way a single bond's par value is.
  • Short runway. As 2027 nears, the holdings mature into cash-like assets, so the fund behaves less and less like a bond fund and more like a countdown.
  • Fee is mid-pack, not low: some target-maturity rungs undercut it, including VBCB at 0.08% and IBTJ at 0.07%.

IBDS Holdings

Asset class
Bonds
Holdings
648
Top-10 weight
7%
Largest holding
Blk Csh Fnd Treasury Sl Agency1.1%

Sectors

  • Banking20.9%
  • Consumer Discretionary15.5%
  • Health Care10.2%
  • Capital Goods9.5%
  • Electric7.7%
  • Energy6.9%
  • Consumer Non-Cyclical6.4%
  • Communications5.5%
  • Insurance3.8%
  • Finance Companies3.5%
  • Reits3.4%
  • Brokerage/Asset Managers/Exchanges2.1%
  • Basic Industry2.0%
  • Transportation1.9%
  • Natural Gas0.7%

Geography

  • United States86.68%
  • Canada4.91%
  • Japan2.43%
  • United Kingdom1.15%
  • Australia1.05%
  • Ireland0.81%
  • Spain0.77%
  • Netherlands0.64%
  • Other countries (7)1.56%
The fund’s holdings, weight-ordered — page 1 of 44.
#TickerCompanyWeight %SharesMarket valueHeld by ETFs
1No dataBlk Csh Fnd Treasury Sl Agency1.08%0$43.4M437
2No dataMicrosoft Corporation 3.30% 02/06/20270.76%0$30.3M4
3No dataT-Mobile Usa Inc 3.75% 04/15/20270.74%0$29.8M15
4No dataCitigroup Inc 4.45% 09/29/20270.74%0$29.8M16
5No dataAmazon.com Inc 3.15% 08/22/20270.64%0$25.8M7
6No dataMorgan Stanley 3.63% 01/20/20270.59%0$23.8M7
7No dataGoldman Sachs Group Inc/The 3.85% 01/26/20270.57%0$23M7
8No dataOracle Corporation 3.25% 11/15/20270.51%0$20.4M37
9No dataMeta Platforms Inc Mtn 3.50% 08/15/20270.50%0$20.2M5
10No dataWells Fargo & Company Mtn 4.30% 07/22/20270.48%0$19.3M7
11No dataBank of America Corp Mtn 3.25% 10/21/20270.48%0$19.2M6
12No dataAT&T Inc 2.30% 06/01/20270.47%0$18.9M12
13No dataAlibaba Group Holding Ltd 3.40% 12/06/20270.47%0$18.7M28
14No dataAbbVie Inc 4.80% 03/15/20270.45%0$18M7
15No dataBat Capital Corp 3.56% 08/15/20270.45%0$17.9M19

Showing 1–15 of 648 holdings

IBDS Performance

Launched Sep 12, 2017

Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.

Not enough history yet.
IBDS$10,360
SPY tracks large US stocks. It provides market context, rather than representing this fund’s strategy, asset class or investment benchmark.$11,199
Oct 31, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026. IBDS $10,360. SPY $11,199. Use the arrow keys to read each point.$10,000$11,000Oct 2025Apr 2026Oct 2026

Oct 31, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026

Returns run to the Oct 30, 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.

Trailing total return for IBDS. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
PeriodIBDS
Year to date+2.7%
1 month+0.5%
3 months+0.9%
1 year+3.6%
3 yearsper year+6.1%
5 yearsper year+1.8%
10 yearsFund is under 10 years oldper yearNo data

With distributions reinvested.

Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.

Annual total returns for IBDS
YearReturn barIBDS
2026 YTD+2.7%
2025+5.9%
2024+4.6%
2023+6.4%
2022−9.5%
2021−1.6%
2020+9.0%

IBDS in the news

IBDS Dividends

Adds up every distribution paid per share over the last 12 months, divided by the last completed close. Distributions are counted by ex-date. Data through Oct 30, 2026.
4.27%Last 12 months
Payout per share
$1.03Last 12 months
Last payment
$0.08 per share
Paid on
Shares bought on or after this date do not qualify for this distribution.
Frequency
Monthly

Distribution history

2023–2026

One bar per payment. 45 payments from 2023 to 2026 YTD. Feb 1, 2023 $0.07; Mar 1, 2023 $0.07; Apr 3, 2023 $0.07; May 1, 2023 $0.08; Jun 1, 2023 $0.07; Jul 3, 2023 $0.08; Aug 1, 2023 $0.08; Sep 1, 2023 $0.07; Oct 2, 2023 $0.07; Nov 1, 2023 $0.08; Dec 1, 2023 $0.08; Dec 14, 2023 $0.08; Feb 1, 2024 $0.09; Mar 1, 2024 $0.08; Apr 1, 2024 $0.09; May 1, 2024 $0.09; Jun 3, 2024 $0.09; Jul 1, 2024 $0.09; Aug 1, 2024 $0.09; Sep 3, 2024 $0.09; Oct 1, 2024 $0.09; Nov 1, 2024 $0.09; Dec 2, 2024 $0.09; Dec 18, 2024 $0.09; Feb 3, 2025 $0.09; Mar 3, 2025 $0.09; Apr 1, 2025 $0.09; May 1, 2025 $0.09; Jun 2, 2025 $0.09; Jul 1, 2025 $0.09; Aug 1, 2025 $0.09; Sep 2, 2025 $0.09; Oct 1, 2025 $0.09; Nov 3, 2025 $0.09; Dec 1, 2025 $0.09; Dec 19, 2025 $0.09; Feb 2, 2026 $0.09; Mar 2, 2026 $0.08; Apr 1, 2026 $0.09; May 1, 2026 $0.09; Jun 1, 2026 $0.09; Jul 1, 2026 $0.08; Aug 3, 2026 $0.08; Sep 1, 2026 $0.08; Oct 1, 2026 $0.08. Use the arrow keys to read each point.2023202420252026YTD
Ex-datePay dateAmount per share
Nov 2, 2026Pays Nov 5, 2026$0.09
Oct 1, 2026Oct 6, 2026$0.08
Sep 1, 2026Sep 4, 2026$0.08
Aug 3, 2026Aug 6, 2026$0.08
Jul 1, 2026Jul 7, 2026$0.08
Jun 1, 2026Jun 4, 2026$0.09
May 1, 2026May 6, 2026$0.09
Apr 1, 2026Apr 7, 2026$0.09
Mar 2, 2026Mar 5, 2026$0.08
Feb 2, 2026Feb 5, 2026$0.09
Dec 19, 2025Dec 24, 2025$0.09
Dec 1, 2025Dec 4, 2025$0.09

See all 109 payments⁠

$10,000 in IBDS 5 years ago paid $1,710 in dividends.⁠

IBDS Risk

How much the fund’s monthly returns vary, scaled to a year.
2.5%
Annualised · 36 months to Oct 2026
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.

Return above 3-month US Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
0.65
vs 3-month T-bills · to Oct 2026
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.

The largest fall from a peak to the low that followed.
−14.1%
Trough Oct 2022
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.

How strongly the fund’s returns move with its asset-class index.
0.44
vs its asset-class index
How it’s calculated: beta

The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.

FMP measures it over up to five years of monthly returns.

IBDS Cost

Overpaying vs VBCB, tied cheapest in Defined-Maturity Investment Grade Corporate

$417

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

  • IBDS 0.10%

    $2,106

  • VBCB 0.08% Tied cheapest

    $1,689

$10,000
30 years

Cost over time

  • IBDS 0.10%
  • VBCB 0.08%
  • Overpaying
One line per fund, from year 0 to year 30. Use the arrow keys to read each point.$0$500$1K$1.5K$2K$2.5K051015202530IBDS $2,106VBCB $1,689

Year by year

YearIBDSVBCBOverpaying
10$183$147$36
20$717$575$142
30$2,106$1,689$417

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