iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF
$37.19−0.17 (−0.44%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $614M
- 1Y return
- +0.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.76%
- Holdings
- 109
- Volume · 30D
- 0.5M sh
- NAV per share
- $37.20
- 52W range
The ETF.net KSA Grade
Score 40 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.FScore 7Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.FScore 20Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 64Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 77Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 85Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 70Category rank
Our read on KSA
DOne ticker, one country. KSA holds roughly 120 Saudi-listed companies through a capped MSCI index and has been doing it since 2015: a pure play on the Saudi market, not a sliver inside a broad emerging-markets fund.
The fund seeks to track an index of Saudi Arabian equities and provides targeted exposure to companies in Saudi Arabia.
Why people hold it
- Targeted exposure to Saudi Arabian equities in a US-listed, US-traded wrapper, tracking the MSCI Saudi Arabia IMI 25/50 Index.
- About 120 names reaching from large caps down to small (the IMI part), with the index's 25/50 caps limiting how big any one holding can grow.
- One of the more actively traded funds in the single-country emerging-market group, with assets in the hundreds of millions behind it.
- Listed in 2015, a long tenure for a niche single-country fund, and the portfolio has held closely to what the mandate says it owns.
Worth knowing
- 0.75% a year sits above the 0.59% median for single-country emerging-market funds, and well above the cheapest in that group (FLMX at 0.19%).
- Everything rides on one market. Saudi-specific news moves the entire fund, with no other country in the basket to soften it.
- Inside its single-country emerging-market peer group it sits in the lower tier, mainly on fee and on how closely results have matched the index.
KSA Holdings
- Stocks
- 109
- 59%
- 1120.SR
Sectors
- Financials42.3%
- Materials12.8%
- Energy12.3%
- Communication8.9%
- Utilities4.7%
- Health Care4.3%
- Consumer Discr.3.5%
- Cons. Staples3.4%
- Industrials3.2%
- Real Estate2.9%
- Technology1.8%
Geography
- Saudi Arabia100.00%
Developed 0% · Emerging 100%
KSA 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 | KSA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +4.2% |
| 1 month | −2.5% |
| 3 months | −2.5% |
| 1 year | +0.5% |
| 3 years | +1.8% |
| 5 years | +0.6% |
| 10 years | +8.2% |
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 | KSA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +4.2% | |
| 2025 | −8.2% | |
| 2024 | −0.2% | |
| 2023 | +15.1% | |
| 2022 | −6.1% | |
| 2021 | +33.6% | |
| 2020 | +2.6% |
KSA in the news
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KSA Dividends
- 2.76%
- $1.03
- $0.59 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 22, 2026 | $0.59 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 23, 2025 | $0.63 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Jan 3, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.48 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.61 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.54 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.49 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.40 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.33 |
| Dec 30, 2021 | Jan 5, 2022 | $0.02 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.26 |
KSA Risk
- 15.1%
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.
- −0.14
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.
- −28.1%
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.
- 0.19
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
KSA Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Single Country funds
- Median 0.59%
19 of the 21 Emerging Markets Single Country funds charge less.