iShares Global Clean Energy ETF
$17.52−0.32 (−1.77%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $2.1B
- 1Y return
- +17.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.03%
- Holdings
- 105
- Volume · 30D
- 6.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $17.77
- 52W range
The ETF.net ICLN Grade
Score 81 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 100Category 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.BScore 63Category 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.BScore 65Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 93Category rank
Our read on ICLN
AThe 2008 original in clean energy, and still the one most investors trade. Roughly 100 clean-energy companies from around the world in one ticker, for a fee well under the category's typical tab.
The fund seeks to track an index representing global equities in the clean energy sector.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.39% a year against a clean-energy peer-group median of 0.59%, and no fund in the cohort's top tier charges less.
- Trading since June 2008 and among the most actively traded funds in the theme, which is rare air for a niche as narrow as this one.
- Truly global: it tracks the S&P Global Clean Energy Transition Index, about 100 names worldwide, not a US-only slice of the build-out.ishares.com
- Backed by iShares, the deepest bench in indexing, and the index rulebook (not a manager's hunch) decides what counts as clean energy.
Worth knowing
- One theme, one sector. Policy changes, rates and project economics move this fund far more than they move a broad market index.
- Global mandate means mostly non-US stocks, so currency moves ride along with the share prices.
- About 100 holdings sounds broad, but the theme's biggest names carry real weight in the index.
ICLN Holdings
- Stocks
- 105
- 51%
- BE
Sectors
- Utilities40.8%
- Technology32.0%
- Industrials25.3%
- Materials1.9%
Geography
- United States36.49%
- China21.78%
- Brazil6.89%
- Denmark5.91%
- India5.37%
- Israel5.04%
- Japan3.00%
- Portugal2.95%
- 12.56%
Developed 30% · Emerging 70%
ICLN Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
ICLN$11,731
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 | ICLN |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.8% |
| 1 month | +1.4% |
| 3 months | −17.6% |
| 1 year | +17.3% |
| 3 years | +7.3% |
| 5 years | −3.3% |
| 10 years | +8.4% |
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 | ICLN |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.8% | |
| 2025 | +47.0% | |
| 2024 | −25.7% | |
| 2023 | −20.4% | |
| 2022 | −5.4% | |
| 2021 | −24.2% | |
| 2020 | +141.8% |
ICLN in the news
ICLN Dividends
- 1.03%
- $0.18
- $0.06 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.12 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.12 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.04 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.14 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.01 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.11 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.12 |
ICLN Risk
- 28.0%
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.
- 0.12
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.
- −57.1%
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.
- 1.49
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ICLN Cost
0.38%
ICLN0.38%
- The middle half of Clean Energy funds
- Median 0.58%
No Clean Energy fund charges less.