iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF
$169.06−1.24 (−0.73%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.37%
- Fund size
- $11.4B
- 1Y return
- +33.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.13%
- Holdings
- 294
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $169.37
- 52W range
The ETF.net IGM 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.BScore 65Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 82Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 68Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 73Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 57Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 79Category rank
Our read on IGM
BTech with the fence moved. IGM's index reaches past the classic tech sector to add selected communication-services names and Canadian listings, holding about 300 stocks. It has been running since 2001.
The fund seeks to track an index of U.S. and Canadian technology companies together with selected communication-services companies.
Why people hold it
- The "expanded" part is the whole point: the index pairs U.S. and Canadian technology companies with selected communication-services names, so internet and media businesses that pure tech-sector funds exclude are in the mix.ishares.com
- About 300 holdings across two countries, a wider net than sector funds drawn only from the S&P 500.
- Launched in March 2001, it is one of the long-running names in tech ETFs, now a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively.
- Tracking has been tight: the portfolio has stayed close to the S&P North American Expanded Technology Sector Index it promises, and it is among the stronger implementations in the broad tech group.
Worth knowing
- Fees are the trade-off. At 0.37% it sits just under the broad-tech median, but plain tech trackers VGT, XLK and FTEC charge under 0.10% for a narrower mandate.
- This is one slice of the market: North American tech plus some communication services, and nothing else. When that corner moves, the whole fund moves with it.
- Distributions come quarterly, but a growth-sector equity basket is built around the companies, not the payout.
IGM Holdings
- Stocks
- 294
- 57%
- AAPL
Sectors
- Technology84.9%
- Communication14.7%
- Financials0.2%
- Energy0.1%
- Industrials0.1%
- Consumer Discr.0.0%
- Materials0.0%
Geography
- United States96.73%
- Canada1.04%
- Singapore0.82%
- Ireland0.80%
- Netherlands0.29%
- Cayman Islands0.17%
- Australia0.14%
- Israel0.01%
IGM 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 | IGM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +32.0% |
| 1 month | +7.2% |
| 3 months | +3.8% |
| 1 year | +33.6% |
| 3 years | +39.4% |
| 5 years | +20.0% |
| 10 years | +24.1% |
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 | IGM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +32.0% | |
| 2025 | +26.8% | |
| 2024 | +37.0% | |
| 2023 | +60.8% | |
| 2022 | −35.8% | |
| 2021 | +25.7% | |
| 2020 | +45.1% |
IGM in the news
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IGM Dividends
- 0.13%
- $0.22
- $0.05 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.04 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.05 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.14 |
IGM Risk
- 22.7%
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.
- 1.20
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.
- −40.7%
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.
- 1.40
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IGM Cost
- The middle half of Technology (Broad) funds
- Median 0.45%
6 of the 23 Technology (Broad) funds charge less.