
iShares LifePath Target Date 2050 ETF
$41.98−0.48 (−1.13%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.11%
- Fund size
- $97M
- 1Y return
- +17.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.44%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.39
- 52W range
The ETF.net ITDF Grade
Score 61 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.CScore 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 52Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 53Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on ITDF
BThe 401(k) staple in ETF form: one ticker holding a global basket of iShares funds, on a glide path that dials risk down as 2050 approaches. Charges 0.11% a year.
The fund seeks retirement outcomes through a diversified portfolio of ETFs whose allocation changes as the 2050 target date approaches.
Why people hold it
- One ticker, a diversified portfolio of ETFs spanning global markets, with the mix shifting on a schedule tied to 2050 rather than to your attention span.
- 0.11% a year, sitting right at the median for target-date funds, for a multi-asset portfolio that would take a half-dozen tickers to assemble by hand.
- Target-date structure without a retirement plan menu: it is a 1940 Act ETF that trades intraday in an ordinary brokerage account.
- Part of a full dated LifePath lineup, from the 2035 vintage (ITDC) out to 2070 (ITDJ), so the retirement horizon you want exists as a sibling ticker.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so bid/ask spreads can run wider than on household-name ETFs, especially around the open and close.
- The glide path is the manager's call. You cannot tune the stock/bond mix, and it de-risks on the 2050 calendar, not on your read of the market.
- Several LifePath siblings, including the 2035 (ITDC) and 2045 (ITDE) vintages, stand ahead of it in our target-date cohort.
ITDF Holdings
- Other
- —
- 20%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology29.1%
- Financials16.2%
- Industrials10.9%
- Health Care8.7%
- Consumer Discr.8.6%
- Communication7.0%
- Real Estate4.9%
- Cons. Staples4.4%
- Materials4.1%
- Energy4.0%
- Utilities2.3%
Geography
- United States63.84%
- Japan5.38%
- Taiwan (Province of China)3.28%
- United Kingdom3.01%
- Canada2.84%
- Korea (the Republic of)2.35%
- Switzerland1.99%
- China1.91%
- 15.40%
Developed 67% · Emerging 33%
ITDF 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 | ITDF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.2% |
| 1 month | +0.2% |
| 3 months | +2.3% |
| 1 year | +17.3% |
| 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 | ITDF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.2% | |
| 2025 | +20.8% | |
| 2024 | +16.1% | |
| 2023 | +12.9% |
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ITDF Dividends
- 1.44%
- $0.61
- $0.61 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.61 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.49 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.23 |
ITDF Risk
- 11.2%
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.
- 1.58
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.
- −15.7%
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.
- 0.87
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ITDF Cost
- The middle half of Target Date funds
- Median 0.11%
2 of the 9 Target Date funds charge less.