iShares MSCI Qatar ETF
$16.81+0.10 (+0.59%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.60%
- Fund size
- $58M
- 1Y return
- −12.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.09%
- Holdings
- 33
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $16.85
- 52W range
The ETF.net QAT Grade
Score 32 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 24Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.FScore 19Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 59Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 44Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 33Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 45Category rank
Our read on QAT
DOne ticker, one country. QAT tracks the MSCI All Qatar Capped Index with a tight basket of Qatari stocks, giving US investors direct access to a small Gulf market that barely registers inside a broad emerging markets fund.
The fund seeks to track an index composed of Qatar equities, providing targeted exposure to companies in Qatar and a way to express a single-country view.
Why people hold it
- Direct Qatar exposure in a plain US-listed wrapper: no local brokerage, no currency account, just an index fund tracking the MSCI All Qatar Capped Index.ishares.com
- Launched in 2014 and run by iShares, so this is a long-running fund with a decade-plus of live history rather than a recent launch chasing a theme.
- About 30 holdings means you can actually read the portfolio and see what you own, instead of Qatar arriving as an unlabeled sliver of a broad emerging markets index.
Worth knowing
- The 0.60% annual fee is typical for single-country emerging markets funds, but cheaper options exist in that group: Franklin's FLMX charges a fraction as much for its country exposure.
- Roughly 30 stocks in one small market is concentration by design. Individual names and sector moves drive results, and there is no diversification cushion underneath.
- It lands in the lower reaches of our single-country emerging markets group, weighed down mainly by cost and by how closely it delivers on its stated index mandate. Payouts come once or twice a year, not quarterly.
QAT Holdings
- Stocks
- 33
- 72%
- QNBK.QA
Sectors
- Financials56.1%
- Materials11.4%
- Industrials8.7%
- Energy7.6%
- Communication6.4%
- Real Estate3.9%
- Utilities2.5%
- Technology1.0%
- Cons. Staples0.8%
- Health Care0.8%
- Consumer Discr.0.8%
Geography
- Qatar100.00%
Developed 0% · Emerging 100%
QAT Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
QAT$8,768
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 | QAT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −8.2% |
| 1 month | −2.5% |
| 3 months | −9.4% |
| 1 year | −12.3% |
| 3 years | +2.7% |
| 5 years | +0.8% |
| 10 years | +2.4% |
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 | QAT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −8.2% | |
| 2025 | +8.8% | |
| 2024 | +5.2% | |
| 2023 | +2.7% | |
| 2022 | −7.2% | |
| 2021 | +14.4% | |
| 2020 | +6.9% |
QAT in the news
QAT Dividends
- 5.09%
- $0.85
- $0.62 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 22, 2026 | $0.62 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 23, 2025 | $0.43 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 23, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.77 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.71 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.12 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.76 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.06 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.42 |
| Jun 15, 2020 | Jun 19, 2020 | $0.49 |
| Jun 17, 2019 | Jun 21, 2019 | $0.64 |
QAT Risk
- 11.9%
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.
- −0.05
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.
- −33.2%
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.
- 0.51
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
QAT Cost
0.60%
QAT0.60%
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Single Country funds
- Median 0.59%
16 of the 21 Emerging Markets Single Country funds charge less.