iShares U.S. Basic Materials ETF
$184.16−1.19 (−0.64%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.37%
- Fund size
- $1.1B
- 1Y return
- +25.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.24%
- Holdings
- 39
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $181.55
- 52W range
The ETF.net IYM Grade
Score 57 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 50Category 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.AScore 71Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 73Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 32Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 74Category rank
Our read on IYM
BTrading since 2000, IYM is the old hand of US materials: roughly 40 companies that make the stuff everything else is built from. The trade-off is price, at 0.38% while the cheapest trackers in the group sit near 0.08%.
The fund seeks to track an index composed of U.S. equities in the basic materials sector.
Why people hold it
- Running since 2000 through multiple commodity cycles, now a multibillion-dollar fund with the iShares operation behind it.
- About 40 US names: a concentrated, purely domestic read on chemicals, metals and packaging, with no overseas miners in the mix.
- Moderately traded and long established, which lands it in the upper half of the broad materials peer group.
Worth knowing
- The 0.38% fee matches the cohort median but runs several times XLB (0.08%), VAW (0.09%) and FMAT (0.08%), which cover similar US materials ground.
- Concentration cuts both ways: with about 40 holdings, a couple of chemical or mining giants can steer the whole fund.
- One sector's slice of the market, not a broad-market fund, and distributions arrive quarterly rather than monthly.
IYM Holdings
- Stocks
- 39
- 67%
- LIN.DE
Sectors
- Materials89.9%
- Industrials8.7%
- Consumer Discr.1.3%
Geography
- United States79.02%
- United Kingdom18.95%
- Netherlands1.68%
- Brazil0.35%
Developed 98% · Emerging 2%
IYM 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 | IYM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +21.4% |
| 1 month | −4.7% |
| 3 months | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +25.9% |
| 3 years | +15.5% |
| 5 years | +10.2% |
| 10 years | +10.9% |
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 | IYM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +21.4% | |
| 2025 | +20.4% | |
| 2024 | −4.5% | |
| 2023 | +12.8% | |
| 2022 | −9.1% | |
| 2021 | +25.6% | |
| 2020 | +17.9% |
IYM in the news
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IYM Dividends
- 1.24%
- $2.30
- $0.59 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.59 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.49 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.47 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.76 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.62 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.47 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.48 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.57 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.61 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.50 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.46 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.73 |
IYM Risk
- 17.7%
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.
- 0.60
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.
- 0.88
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IYM Cost
- The middle half of Materials (Broad) funds
- Median 0.37%
6 of the 14 Materials (Broad) funds charge less.