iShares MSCI Intl Quality Factor ETF
$50.02−0.71 (−1.41%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $13.9B
- 1Y return
- +18.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.36%
- Holdings
- 292
- Volume · 30D
- 1.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.53
- 52W range
The ETF.net IQLT Grade
Score 58 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.CScore 44Category 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 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 78Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 67Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 86Category rank
Our read on IQLT
BQuality investing abroad, with the sector bets stripped out. IQLT holds developed-market companies picked for high return on equity, stable earnings and low debt, while keeping sector weights close to the broad market.
The fund seeks to track an index of international developed-market stocks selected for high return on equity, stable earnings, and low debt.
Why people hold it
- The screen is refreshingly plain: high return on equity, stable earnings, low debt, spread across roughly 300 developed-market companies outside the US.ishares.com
- Sector neutral by design. The quality tilt shows up in which companies it owns, not as a quiet overweight to whatever sector screens well that year.ishares.com
- 0.30% a year, below the typical international factor fund, and it has been running since 2015.
- A multi-billion-dollar, actively traded fund, which puts it among the more established ways to own the quality factor overseas.
Worth knowing
- Developed markets outside the US only. No American stocks, no emerging markets, so it fills one slot rather than covering the whole map.
- A quality screen narrows the field to profitable, low-debt names, so results can diverge from the broad international market in either direction.
- Cheaper factor options sit in the same aisle (QLVD, EFAV, ACWV), though each runs a different screen rather than sector-neutral quality.
IQLT Holdings
- Stocks
- 292
- 23%
- ASML.AS
Sectors
- Financials26.0%
- Industrials16.9%
- Technology11.1%
- Health Care8.5%
- Consumer Discr.7.8%
- Materials7.4%
- Cons. Staples6.4%
- Energy5.6%
- Communication5.4%
- Utilities3.5%
- Real Estate1.3%
Geography
- United Kingdom14.68%
- Japan14.17%
- Switzerland13.21%
- Canada9.19%
- Netherlands7.88%
- France7.47%
- Germany6.46%
- Australia4.86%
- 22.07%
Developed 98% · Emerging 2%
IQLT 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 | IQLT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.3% |
| 1 month | −2.5% |
| 3 months | +2.8% |
| 1 year | +18.0% |
| 3 years | +17.2% |
| 5 years | +7.9% |
| 10 years | +9.6% |
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 | IQLT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.3% | |
| 2025 | +25.4% | |
| 2024 | +1.6% | |
| 2023 | +18.8% | |
| 2022 | −15.2% | |
| 2021 | +12.9% | |
| 2020 | +12.5% |
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IQLT Dividends
- 2.36%
- $1.20
- $0.75 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.75 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.45 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.61 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.44 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.63 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.37 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.48 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.30 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.71 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.40 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.48 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | $0.23 |
IQLT Risk
- 12.4%
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.
- 0.94
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.
- −29.7%
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.
- 0.83
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IQLT Cost
- The middle half of International Quality Index funds
- Median 0.29%
3 of the 6 International Quality Index funds charge less.