iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
$108.13+1.38 (+1.29%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $13.8B
- 1Y return
- −9.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.02%
- Holdings
- 106
- Volume · 30D
- 15.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $107.01
- 52W range
The ETF.net IGV Grade
Score 54 of 100 sits in the C 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.BScore 68Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 13Category 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.CScore 52Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 79Category rank
Our read on IGV
CIGV skips the chip fabs and the hardware and buys the code: about 110 North American software names, plus video games and interactive media. A software-only slice of tech that has been trading since 2001.
The Fund seeks to track an index of North American software equities and selected North American equities from interactive home entertainment and interactive media and services industries.
Why people hold it
- A clean software mandate: the index covers North American software plus interactive home entertainment and interactive media, so semis and hardware stay out.ishares.com
- 0.38% a year, a shade under the typical fund in its tech-sector group.
- Very actively traded and multi-billion-dollar in size, so entering and exiting is rarely the hard part.
- Running since 2001 under the iShares roof, a veteran of several full tech cycles rather than a fresh theme launch.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- One industry, about 110 stocks. A software-only book swings harder than a diversified tech fund that also holds chips and hardware.
- Broad tech rivals VGT, XLK and FTEC charge under a tenth of a percent for much wider coverage. You pay up here for the narrower mandate.
- North America only by design, so software companies listed in Europe or Asia sit outside the index.ishares.com
IGV Holdings
- Stocks
- 106
- 61%
- PANW
Sectors
- Technology94.4%
- Communication3.8%
- Financials1.5%
- Consumer Discr.0.2%
- Industrials0.1%
Geography
- United States99.41%
- Canada0.59%
IGV Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
IGV$9,064
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 | IGV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.0% |
| 1 month | +3.3% |
| 3 months | +22.3% |
| 1 year | −9.4% |
| 3 years | +16.2% |
| 5 years | +5.2% |
| 10 years | +16.8% |
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 | IGV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.0% | |
| 2025 | +5.6% | |
| 2024 | +23.4% | |
| 2023 | +58.6% | |
| 2022 | −35.7% | |
| 2021 | +12.3% | |
| 2020 | +52.9% |
IGV in the news
IGV Dividends
- 0.02%
- $0.02
- $0.02 per share
- Irregular
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.0051 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.0046 |
| Jun 15, 2020 | Jun 19, 2020 | $0.01 |
| Mar 25, 2020 | Mar 31, 2020 | $0.23 |
| Jun 17, 2019 | Jun 21, 2019 | $0.0092 |
| Dec 17, 2018 | Dec 21, 2018 | $0.04 |
| Jun 26, 2018 | Jul 2, 2018 | $0.0076 |
| Mar 22, 2018 | Mar 28, 2018 | $0.0034 |
| Dec 19, 2017 | Dec 26, 2017 | $0.00039 |
| Sep 26, 2017 | Sep 29, 2017 | $0.0044 |
| Jun 27, 2017 | Jun 30, 2017 | $0.01 |
IGV Risk
- 28.1%
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.
- 0.48
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.
- −45.9%
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.
- 1.19
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IGV Cost
0.38%
IGV0.38%
- The middle half of Technology (Broad) funds
- Median 0.45%
9 of the 23 Technology (Broad) funds charge less.