iShares Lithium Miners and Producers ETF
$13.66−0.25 (−1.80%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.47%
- Fund size
- $14M
- 1Y return
- +29.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.31%
- Holdings
- 47
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $13.95
- 52W range
The ETF.net ILIT 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.AScore 97Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 30Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 46Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 58Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 43Category rank
Our read on ILIT
BMost lithium funds blend miners with EV makers and battery tech. ILIT stays at the source: an index of global companies whose main business is digging lithium ore or making lithium compounds, about 40 names, for 0.47% a year.
ILIT aims to replicate an index of U.S. and non-U.S. equity issuers whose principal activities are lithium-ore mining or lithium-compound manufacturing.
Why people hold it
- Straight to the rock. The index holds only firms whose principal business is lithium-ore mining or lithium-compound manufacturing, so EV assemblers and electronics names stay out.ishares.com
- 0.47% a year undercuts most of the critical-materials shelf, including SETM (0.65%) and EART (0.59%).
- Rules-based and transparent: it replicates the STOXX Global Lithium Miners and Producers Index (STXLIMEV) rather than a manager's stock picks.
- Global by design. The mandate spans US, developed international and emerging market issuers instead of stopping at the US border.
Worth knowing
- Small asset base and light trading volume, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than on the big diversified mining funds.
- One metal, roughly 40 stocks. Lithium-linked shares have been a volatile ride, and a portfolio this concentrated feels every move in the metal.
- Launched in 2023, so the track record is short, and cash distributions land only once or twice a year.
ILIT Holdings
- Stocks
- 47
- 54%
- SQM
Sectors
- Materials89.2%
- Industrials9.1%
- Consumer Discr.1.2%
- Technology0.5%
Geography
- China37.49%
- Australia22.70%
- United States9.72%
- Chile9.71%
- South Korea6.09%
- Canada4.01%
- Switzerland3.92%
- Brazil3.58%
- 2.78%
Developed 34% · Emerging 66%
ILIT 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 | ILIT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −10.9% |
| 1 month | −11.6% |
| 3 months | −26.0% |
| 1 year | +29.6% |
| 3 years | −6.3% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
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 | ILIT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −10.9% | |
| 2025 | +81.6% | |
| 2024 | −45.1% | |
| 2023 | −28.8% |
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ILIT Dividends
- 2.31%
- $0.32
- $0.02 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.50 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.12 |
ILIT Risk
- 44.9%
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.
- −0.01
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.
- −73.7%
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.
- 1.53
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ILIT Cost
- The middle half of Critical Materials funds
- Median 0.65%
No Critical Materials fund charges less.