iShares Europe ETF
$72.28−0.92 (−1.25%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $1.6B
- 1Y return
- +15.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.78%
- Holdings
- 360
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $73.13
- 52W range
The ETF.net IEV Grade
Score 64 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.FScore 21Category 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.AScore 74Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 70Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 84Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 68Category rank
Our read on IEV
BTrading since 2000, IEV is one of the original ways to own Europe from a US brokerage account: an index of 350 blue chips drawn from 16 developed markets, the whole continent rather than just the eurozone slice.
The fund seeks to track an index composed of European equities.
Why people hold it
- Continent-wide, not eurozone-only. The S&P Europe 350 pulls blue chips from 16 developed European markets, so UK, Swiss and Nordic giants sit beside the euro-bloc names.spglobal.com
- A 2000-vintage fund that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar one with steady day-to-day trading in US hours. Longevity through several full market cycles.
- No hunches layered on top: roughly 400 positions, one stated European equity index, and tracking that stays close to it. What you read on the tin is what sits in the basket.
Worth knowing
- Cost is the trade-off. The 0.60% expense ratio runs above plain index trackers in the same cohort, where a fund like VT charges 0.06%.
- Sixteen markets means many currencies. Euro, pound, franc and krona moves against the dollar land in your return alongside the stocks themselves.spglobal.com
- Cash comes in lumps, not a drip: distributions arrive once or twice a year, which is typical for European companies but unlike a monthly payer.
IEV Holdings
- Stocks
- 360
- 21%
- ASML.AS
Sectors
- Financials26.3%
- Industrials17.7%
- Health Care12.5%
- Technology9.2%
- Cons. Staples8.1%
- Consumer Discr.6.2%
- Materials6.0%
- Energy5.6%
- Utilities4.6%
- Communication3.3%
- Real Estate0.6%
Geography
- United Kingdom22.52%
- Switzerland15.10%
- Germany13.49%
- France13.32%
- Netherlands10.20%
- Spain6.16%
- Italy5.35%
- Sweden4.73%
- 9.14%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
IEV 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 | IEV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.6% |
| 1 month | −3.5% |
| 3 months | +1.1% |
| 1 year | +15.7% |
| 3 years | +18.0% |
| 5 years | +9.6% |
| 10 years | +9.3% |
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 | IEV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.6% | |
| 2025 | +35.6% | |
| 2024 | +1.4% | |
| 2023 | +20.2% | |
| 2022 | −14.2% | |
| 2021 | +16.7% | |
| 2020 | +4.1% |
IEV in the news
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IEV Dividends
- 2.78%
- $2.03
- $1.28 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.28 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.75 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $1.12 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.38 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $1.24 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.36 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $1.10 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.20 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $1.18 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.06 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.59 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.87 |
IEV Risk
- 12.9%
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.
- 0.99
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.
- −30.5%
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.
- 0.81
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IEV Cost
- The middle half of Europe Region funds
- Median 0.51%
9 of the 12 Europe Region funds charge less.