iShares Morningstar Growth ETF
$117.39−0.99 (−0.84%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.04%
- Fund size
- $3.2B
- 1Y return
- +13.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.41%
- Holdings
- 324
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $117.92
- 52W range
The ETF.net ILCG Grade
Score 76 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 96Category 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 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 54Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 50Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on ILCG
AGrowth by Morningstar's rulebook. A 2004-vintage iShares fund that screens large and mid caps for above-average earnings, sales, cash-flow and book-value growth, and charges four basis points to do it.
The fund aims to follow an index of U.S. large- and mid-cap stocks chosen for above-average earnings, sales, cash-flow, and book-value growth.
Why people hold it
- 0.04% a year. The typical fund in its factor peer group charges roughly eight times that, so almost none of the return leaks out the fee door.
- Uses Morningstar's growth definition (earnings, sales, cash flow, book value) rather than S&P's or Russell's, and reaches into mid caps, not just the S&P 500.ishares.com
- Trading since 2004, a multi-billion-dollar fund holding roughly 300 stocks. Long-running plumbing, not a launch-week experiment.
- Tracking has been tight, and the fund sits in the upper half of its factor cohort overall, with cost doing much of the heavy lifting.
Worth knowing
- Pure growth means no value ballast, and the ride has been bumpier than most funds in its factor group. The style can sit out of favor for long stretches.
- Concentration runs high for the cohort: cap-weighted growth screens funnel a big share of the fund into the same handful of mega-cap names.
- Moderately traded, not a tape leader. Sibling IUSG applies S&P's growth definition at the same 0.04%, so the pick is which index rulebook you prefer.
ILCG Holdings
- Stocks
- 324
- 50%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology54.2%
- Industrials9.9%
- Consumer Discr.9.5%
- Communication9.4%
- Health Care5.5%
- Financials5.3%
- Cons. Staples1.6%
- Real Estate1.6%
- Materials1.5%
- Utilities0.9%
- Energy0.8%
Geography
- United States98.43%
- Ireland0.97%
- United Kingdom0.14%
- Uruguay0.12%
- Cayman Islands0.12%
- Netherlands0.12%
- Switzerland0.10%
ILCG 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 | ILCG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.1% |
| 1 month | +3.2% |
| 3 months | +1.5% |
| 1 year | +13.3% |
| 3 years | +26.2% |
| 5 years | +12.4% |
| 10 years | +17.8% |
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 | ILCG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.1% | |
| 2025 | +16.7% | |
| 2024 | +32.8% | |
| 2023 | +40.4% | |
| 2022 | −31.8% | |
| 2021 | +24.3% | |
| 2020 | +38.6% |
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ILCG Dividends
- 0.41%
- $0.48
- $0.14 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.15 |
ILCG Risk
- 17.9%
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.
- 0.98
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.
- −35.4%
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.
- 1.23
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ILCG Cost
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
1 of the 35 US Growth Index funds charge less.