
iShares LifePath Target Date 2040 ETF
$38.67−0.41 (−1.06%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.11%
- Fund size
- $121M
- 1Y return
- +13.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.64%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $39.04
- 52W range
The ETF.net ITDD Grade
Score 66 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 46Category 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 62Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 63Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 75Category rank
Our read on ITDD
BA whole retirement portfolio in one ticker: a global mix of stock and bond ETFs that drifts toward bonds as 2040 gets closer. The 401(k) staple, unbundled into something any brokerage account can buy for 0.11% a year.
The fund seeks to provide a diversified mix of stock and bond ETFs for investors expecting to retire or begin withdrawals around 2040. Its allocation becomes more conservative as the target date approaches.
Why people hold it
- One trade buys a diversified global mix of stock and bond ETFs that grows more conservative as the 2040 target date nears. No rebalancing homework on your end.ishares.com
- Costs 0.11% a year, in line with the typical target-date ETF and cheap for a fund that handles the whole asset mix.
- Ordinary 1940 Act fund in an ETF wrapper, so the glide-path approach long locked inside employer plan menus trades like any other ticker.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- The glide path is the manager's design. The stock-to-bond shift runs on their schedule and their assumptions, not on your own read of markets or retirement timing.ishares.com
- Launched in 2023 and trades lightly next to core index ETFs, so spreads can be wider than headline funds. Limit orders are the standard workaround.
- In our target-date group it sits in the bottom quartile, behind LifePath siblings a few rungs up and down the ladder such as ITDC and ITDE.
ITDD Holdings
- Other
- —
- 16%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology28.2%
- Financials15.5%
- Industrials11.4%
- Health Care8.3%
- Consumer Discr.8.3%
- Communication6.9%
- Real Estate5.7%
- Energy4.4%
- Cons. Staples4.2%
- Materials3.9%
- Utilities3.2%
Geography
- United States70.26%
- Japan4.28%
- Taiwan (Province of China)2.56%
- United Kingdom2.46%
- Canada2.42%
- Korea (the Republic of)1.83%
- Switzerland1.62%
- China1.54%
- 13.03%
Developed 68% · Emerging 32%
ITDD 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 | ITDD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +11.1% |
| 1 month | −0.1% |
| 3 months | +1.5% |
| 1 year | +13.6% |
| 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 | ITDD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +11.1% | |
| 2025 | +17.7% | |
| 2024 | +13.1% | |
| 2023 | +12.9% |
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ITDD Dividends
- 1.64%
- $0.64
- $0.64 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.64 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.48 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.24 |
ITDD Risk
- 9.8%
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.
- 1.48
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.
- −12.5%
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.
- 0.74
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ITDD Cost
- The middle half of Target Date funds
- Median 0.11%
2 of the 9 Target Date funds charge less.