iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF
$89.79−1.24 (−1.36%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.37%
- Fund size
- $2.4B
- 1Y return
- −13.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.39%
- Holdings
- 43
- Volume · 30D
- 2.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $88.17
- 52W range
The ETF.net ITB Grade
Score 35 of 100 sits in the D 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.DScore 29Category 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.FScore 8Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 54Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 47Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on ITB
DLaunched in 2006, right at the top of the housing boom, ITB is the long-running pure play on American homebuilding: roughly 40 US stocks tracking one home construction index, with no global detours.
Seeks to track an index of U.S. equities focused on the home construction sector.
Why people hold it
- Undiluted exposure by design: about 40 US names tracking the Dow Jones U.S. Select Home Construction Index, rather than a broad consumer basket where builders are a rounding error.ishares.com
- Trading since 2006, so this fund has a live track record through multiple full housing cycles instead of a back-test.
- A billion-dollar-plus fund that trades actively, which is why it has long been the default vehicle when investors want a housing position in one ticker.
Worth knowing
- Costs 0.37% a year, a touch above the typical fund in its consumer discretionary peer group, and broad sector options like XLY and FDIS run 0.08%.
- Roughly 40 stocks in one cyclical industry: the ride is bumpier than a diversified sector fund, and mortgage-rate news hits this basket hard in both directions.ishares.com
- US-only, and built for share-price exposure to homebuilding, not income. Distributions arrive quarterly.
ITB Holdings
- Stocks
- 43
- 68%
- DHI
Sectors
- Consumer Discr.74.9%
- Industrials15.0%
- Materials9.3%
- Real Estate0.7%
Geography
- United States100.00%
ITB Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
ITB$8,651
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 | ITB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −4.3% |
| 1 month | −5.8% |
| 3 months | −5.7% |
| 1 year | −13.5% |
| 3 years | +6.2% |
| 5 years | +6.7% |
| 10 years | +13.5% |
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 | ITB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −4.3% | |
| 2025 | −5.3% | |
| 2024 | +2.1% | |
| 2023 | +68.9% | |
| 2022 | −26.2% | |
| 2021 | +49.3% | |
| 2020 | +26.4% |
ITB in the news
ITB Dividends
- 1.39%
- $1.26
- $0.75 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.75 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.65 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.66 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.14 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.10 |
ITB Risk
- 31.0%
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.
- 0.13
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.
- −40.5%
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.
- 1.48
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ITB Cost
0.37%
ITB0.37%
- The middle half of Consumer Discretionary (Broad) funds
- Median 0.35%
8 of the 14 Consumer Discretionary (Broad) funds charge less.