iShares Morningstar Small-Cap ETF
$72.52−0.61 (−0.83%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.04%
- Fund size
- $277M
- 1Y return
- +15.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.33%
- Holdings
- 1566
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $72.92
- 52W range
The ETF.net ISCB Grade
Score 72 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 91Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 85Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 60Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 27Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 85Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 53Category rank
Our read on ISCB
AA wide net over small-cap America: roughly 1,600 stocks for four basis points, from a fund that has been running since 2004. The trade-off is a quieter tape than the category's household names.
The fund seeks to track an index composed of U.S. small-cap stocks.
Why people hold it
- 0.04% a year, against a 0.25% median for small-cap funds. Cheaper than IWM at 0.19% and within a basis point of the Vanguard and Schwab floor.
- Roughly 1,600 names in the Morningstar US Small Cap Extended Market Index, so no single small company carries much weight.
- Live since 2004, with a record spanning multiple full market cycles rather than one bull run.
- Plain-vanilla index plumbing: it has tracked its stated benchmark tightly and pays out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded relative to the giants in the aisle, so bid-ask spreads can be wider and limit orders matter more.
- Small caps move harder than large caps in both directions, and this one owns the smaller end of the market with no quality screen.
- VB and SCHA charge 0.03%, so the fee alone is not the tiebreaker in this group.
ISCB Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,566
- 3%
- ROKU
Sectors
- Industrials16.4%
- Financials16.3%
- Technology16.1%
- Health Care15.6%
- Consumer Discr.11.1%
- Real Estate7.9%
- Energy4.5%
- Cons. Staples3.7%
- Materials3.4%
- Communication2.8%
- Utilities2.3%
Geography
- United States96.65%
- Bermuda1.01%
- Ireland0.60%
- United Kingdom0.53%
- Switzerland0.39%
- Puerto Rico0.30%
- Canada0.13%
- Sweden0.12%
- 0.27%
ISCB 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 | ISCB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.5% |
| 1 month | −4.0% |
| 3 months | −0.1% |
| 1 year | +15.8% |
| 3 years | +17.7% |
| 5 years | +6.9% |
| 10 years | +8.8% |
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 | ISCB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.5% | |
| 2025 | +12.5% | |
| 2024 | +10.9% | |
| 2023 | +19.5% | |
| 2022 | −19.0% | |
| 2021 | +17.5% | |
| 2020 | +6.3% |
ISCB in the news
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ISCB Dividends
- 1.33%
- $0.97
- $0.25 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.24 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.22 |
ISCB Risk
- 17.8%
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.
- 0.67
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.
- −29.9%
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.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ISCB Cost
- The middle half of US Small-Cap funds
- Median 0.20%
2 of the 17 US Small-Cap funds charge less.