iShares MSCI Intl Momentum Factor ETF
$52.91−0.82 (−1.54%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $4.3B
- 1Y return
- +18.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.32%
- Holdings
- 301
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $53.55
- 52W range
The ETF.net IMTM Grade
Score 57 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.BScore 61Category 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.CScore 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 66Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 51Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 76Category rank
Our read on IMTM
BMomentum investing usually stops at the US border. IMTM runs the same idea across developed markets outside America, holding roughly 300 stocks picked for strong price momentum and reshuffling as leadership changes hands.
The fund seeks to follow an index of developed-market international equities selected for relatively strong price momentum.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.30%, half the typical fee among international active-equity funds, and undercuts factor peers like AVDS while sitting near AVDE and DFIC.
- A rare pure-momentum sleeve for developed markets outside the US, where most factor money never leaves home.
- Live since 2015 and now a multi-billion-dollar iShares fund, so it has a decade of track record and real trading depth behind it.
- Ranks in the top quartile of its international equity peer group on our review, one of the stronger implementations in the category.
Worth knowing
- Momentum chases what is already working, so the portfolio can tilt hard toward whichever countries and sectors are hot and swing more than a broad index.
- Roughly 300 developed-market names means no emerging markets and a narrower bench than a total international fund.
- Distributions arrive once or twice a year, not monthly, and it trades moderately rather than at mega-fund volumes.
IMTM Holdings
- Stocks
- 301
- 24%
- ASML.AS
Sectors
- Financials37.8%
- Technology15.8%
- Industrials12.4%
- Energy10.7%
- Materials6.4%
- Health Care6.3%
- Utilities4.0%
- Cons. Staples2.4%
- Consumer Discr.2.1%
- Communication1.5%
- Real Estate0.5%
Geography
- Japan26.74%
- Canada18.19%
- United Kingdom10.42%
- Switzerland7.96%
- Netherlands7.04%
- Spain5.37%
- Germany4.52%
- France3.85%
- 15.91%
Developed 99% · Emerging 1%
IMTM 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 | IMTM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.3% |
| 1 month | −0.4% |
| 3 months | −1.1% |
| 1 year | +18.4% |
| 3 years | +22.8% |
| 5 years | +10.4% |
| 10 years | +10.4% |
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 | IMTM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.3% | |
| 2025 | +34.5% | |
| 2024 | +12.2% | |
| 2023 | +13.9% | |
| 2022 | −16.8% | |
| 2021 | +6.6% | |
| 2020 | +22.2% |
IMTM in the news
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IMTM Dividends
- 4.32%
- $2.32
- $0.60 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.60 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.72 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.53 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.58 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.52 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.35 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.43 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.35 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.47 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.09 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $1.66 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.31 |
IMTM Risk
- 12.9%
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.
- 1.24
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.
- −30.6%
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.
- 0.81
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IMTM Cost
- The middle half of International Factor Index funds
- Median 0.38%
4 of the 14 International Factor Index funds charge less.