
iShares LifePath Target Date 2030 ETF
$34.97−0.32 (−0.91%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $82M
- 1Y return
- +9.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.91%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $35.26
- 52W range
The ETF.net ITDB Grade
Score 82 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 89Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 65Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 72Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 73Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on ITDB
AThe 401(k) staple, unbundled. One ticker holds a global basket of iShares funds and walks down a preset glide path toward 2030, from the suite that first brought target-date investing out of workplace plans and onto an exchange.
The Fund seeks retirement outcomes through a broad portfolio of ETFs. It reallocates among underlying funds using a predetermined glide path that becomes more conservative as the target date approaches.
Why people hold it
- 0.09% a year, below the median for target-date ETFs, for a whole diversified portfolio you never rebalance by hand.
- One decision, not twelve: a global mix of underlying iShares ETFs that reallocates on a predetermined glide path, growing more conservative as 2030 approaches.
- Launched October 2023 in the first US suite of target-date ETFs, so the format lives in a brokerage account instead of only inside an employer plan.finance.yahoo.com
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base next to headline index ETFs, so spreads can be wider and order type matters more.
- No outside benchmark to grade it against. BlackRock sets the glide path, so the stock/bond mix reflects its own house view.
- At the target date the fund is designed to transition into the iShares LifePath Retirement ETF, so holding past 2030 means holding a different vehicle.finance.yahoo.com
ITDB Holdings
- Other
- —
- 12%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology28.8%
- Financials15.4%
- Industrials11.5%
- Consumer Discr.8.3%
- Health Care8.2%
- Communication7.0%
- Real Estate5.0%
- Energy4.4%
- Cons. Staples4.3%
- Materials3.8%
- Utilities3.3%
Geography
- United States79.48%
- Japan2.92%
- Taiwan (Province of China)1.77%
- United Kingdom1.69%
- Canada1.66%
- Korea (the Republic of)1.27%
- Switzerland1.11%
- China1.07%
- 9.03%
ITDB 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 | ITDB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +7.1% |
| 1 month | −0.3% |
| 3 months | +0.7% |
| 1 year | +9.2% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
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 | ITDB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +7.1% | |
| 2025 | +14.6% | |
| 2024 | +9.6% | |
| 2023 | +11.7% |
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ITDB Dividends
- 1.91%
- $0.67
- $0.67 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.67 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.58 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.17 |
ITDB Risk
- 7.9%
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.
- 1.34
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.
- −8.4%
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.
- 0.58
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ITDB Cost
- The middle half of Target Date funds
- Median 0.11%
No Target Date fund charges less.