iShares International Dividend Growth ETF
$89.73−1.28 (−1.41%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $1.3B
- 1Y return
- +17.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.65%
- Holdings
- 545
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $90.90
- 52W range
The ETF.net IGRO Grade
Score 78 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 85Category 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.CScore 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 74Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 54Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 69Category rank
Our read on IGRO
ADividend growth, not dividend yield, taken overseas. IGRO tracks a Morningstar index of non-US companies with a habit of raising their payouts, spread across roughly 500 names, for a fee that undercuts most of the international dividend shelf.
The fund seeks to track an index of international stocks with a history of growing dividends, providing dividend-focused international equity exposure for income and long-term growth.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.15% a year, well under the typical fee for an international dividend screen.
- Does what the label says: it follows the Morningstar Global ex-US Dividend Growth Index closely, one of the tightest index-to-portfolio matches in its peer group.
- Roughly 500 non-US payers, so no single dividend carries the fund. Cash goes out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- It trades thin next to heavyweights like VYMI, so limit orders and calmer mid-session trading matter more here.
- The screen targets payout growth, not the fattest yields, so income tends to run lighter than yield-first international funds.
- Cheaper neighbors exist: VIGI at 0.07% and SCHY at 0.08%, though each tracks a different index with a different holdings list.
IGRO Holdings
- Stocks
- 545
- 27%
- BATS.L
Sectors
- Financials32.4%
- Industrials14.3%
- Health Care13.4%
- Cons. Staples9.8%
- Technology7.7%
- Consumer Discr.6.9%
- Utilities6.6%
- Materials4.0%
- Energy2.2%
- Communication1.9%
- Real Estate0.6%
Geography
- Japan21.23%
- Canada13.26%
- Switzerland12.87%
- France10.19%
- United Kingdom6.69%
- Australia5.72%
- Italy3.80%
- Taiwan3.57%
- 22.68%
Developed 88% · Emerging 12%
IGRO 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 | IGRO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.4% |
| 1 month | −1.4% |
| 3 months | +4.0% |
| 1 year | +17.2% |
| 3 years | +17.5% |
| 5 years | +9.3% |
| 10 years | +8.9% |
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 | IGRO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.4% | |
| 2025 | +25.0% | |
| 2024 | +7.8% | |
| 2023 | +15.4% | |
| 2022 | −12.7% | |
| 2021 | +9.9% | |
| 2020 | +7.7% |
IGRO in the news
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IGRO Dividends
- 2.65%
- $2.41
- $0.43 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.43 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $1.19 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.50 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.43 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.87 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.33 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.40 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.63 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.46 |
IGRO Risk
- 11.2%
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.
- 1.11
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.
- −26.0%
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.
- 0.74
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IGRO Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
5 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.