iShares iBonds Dec 2029 Term Corporate ETF
$22.70−0.11 (−0.48%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.10%
- Fund size
- $4.0B
- 1Y return
- +1.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.69%
- Holdings
- 713
- Volume · 30D
- 0.7M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.79
- 52W range
The ETF.net IBDU Grade
Score 71 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.CScore 49Category 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.BScore 55Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 68Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 93Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 86Category rank
Our read on IBDU
ABuy one ticker, get hundreds of investment-grade corporate bonds that all come due in 2029. Then the fund winds up on or about December 15, 2029 and pays out what's left: a bond's end date with an ETF's diversification.
The fund seeks to track an index of investment-grade corporate bonds that mature in 2029.
Why people hold it
- Acts like a single bond: it terminates on or about December 15, 2029 and distributes its remaining net assets, a defined end date instead of a perpetual fund's rolling duration.sec.gov
- Hundreds of investment-grade corporate bonds in one wrapper, with each issuer needing $300 million or more of face value to enter the index. One sour name gets diluted.sec.gov
- 0.10% a year, level with Invesco's 2029 BulletShares rung (BSCT) and at the cohort median, and it sits among the more tradable names in this group.
- Pays monthly, and the 2029 rung slots beside other dated funds if you want a ladder with set end dates rather than a rolling maturity.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- Not a bond held to par: the fund does not seek to return any predetermined amount at maturity or in periodic distributions, and price moves with rates and credit until then.sec.gov
- In the final months, the bonds mature into cash and cash-like instruments, so the fund's yield drifts toward prevailing money market rates before the wind-up.ishares.com
- Corporate credit, not government paper, and the index includes non-US developed-market issuers. The same-year iShares Treasury rung (IBTJ) charges 0.07%.sec.gov
IBDU Holdings
- Bonds
- 713
- 6%
- ABBVIE INC 3.20% 11/21/2029
Geography
- United States89.41%
- Canada2.72%
- Japan2.15%
- Ireland1.18%
- United Kingdom0.83%
- Spain0.81%
- Luxembourg0.66%
- Netherlands0.61%
- 1.61%
IBDU 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 | IBDU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.4% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −0.1% |
| 1 year | +1.6% |
| 3 years | +6.0% |
| 5 years | +0.8% |
| 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 | IBDU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.4% | |
| 2025 | +7.6% | |
| 2024 | +3.6% | |
| 2023 | +8.7% | |
| 2022 | −13.0% | |
| 2021 | −2.1% | |
| 2020 | +10.4% |
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IBDU Dividends
- 4.69%
- $1.07
- $0.09 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.09 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.09 |
IBDU Risk
- 4.4%
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.
- 0.28
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.
- −19.0%
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.
- 0.75
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IBDU Cost
- The middle half of Defined-Maturity Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.10%
10 of the 42 Defined-Maturity Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.