iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF
$95.12−0.40 (−0.42%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.06%
- Fund size
- $4.0B
- 1Y return
- +16.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.65%
- Holdings
- 258
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $95.22
- 52W range
The ETF.net IMCG Grade
Score 75 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 79Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 95Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 63Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 53Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 76Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 66Category rank
Our read on IMCG
AGrowth investing usually means megacaps. IMCG works the middle of the market instead: roughly 300 mid-cap growth names, indexed since 2004, for six basis points a year.
The Fund seeks to track an index of U.S. mid-capitalization equities with growth characteristics. Its strategy uses representative sampling and generally invests at least 80% of assets in securities from the Underlying Index.
Why people hold it
- 0.06% a year, one third of the 0.18% median for its growth-fund peer group. Mid-cap indexing at large-cap-index prices.
- The growth leaderboard is stacked with large-cap funds (VUG, SCHG, SPYG, VONG). IMCG covers the middle instead, holding about 300 mid-cap growth names.
- Sticks close to the Morningstar mid-cap growth index it follows, one of the tighter tracking jobs in its peer group.
- Running since 2004 under the iShares roof, with a multi-billion-dollar asset base behind it.
Worth knowing
- Moderately traded rather than heavily traded, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than the megacap growth ETFs sitting beside it in the category.
- This is a size-and-style bet. Mid-cap growth companies tend to move more sharply than the broad market, in both directions.
- Distributions land quarterly, but a growth screen is not built around income.
IMCG Holdings
- Stocks
- 258
- 13%
- DELL
Sectors
- Technology26.0%
- Industrials21.7%
- Financials12.2%
- Consumer Discr.9.8%
- Materials7.9%
- Health Care7.7%
- Real Estate3.7%
- Energy3.6%
- Utilities3.0%
- Communication2.4%
- Cons. Staples2.0%
Geography
- United States94.71%
- Ireland2.87%
- United Kingdom0.89%
- Cayman Islands0.60%
- Netherlands0.52%
- Switzerland0.41%
IMCG 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 | IMCG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +20.2% |
| 1 month | −2.4% |
| 3 months | −1.8% |
| 1 year | +16.1% |
| 3 years | +19.7% |
| 5 years | +6.9% |
| 10 years | +14.1% |
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 | IMCG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +20.2% | |
| 2025 | +6.6% | |
| 2024 | +18.1% | |
| 2023 | +20.7% | |
| 2022 | −25.8% | |
| 2021 | +15.4% | |
| 2020 | +45.6% |
IMCG in the news
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IMCG Dividends
- 0.65%
- $0.62
- $0.19 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.18 |
IMCG Risk
- 17.4%
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.
- 0.77
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.
- −35.1%
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.
- 1.13
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IMCG Cost
- The middle half of US Growth Index funds
- Median 0.18%
7 of the 35 US Growth Index funds charge less.