iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF
$82.36−3.48 (−4.05%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.39%
- Fund size
- $2.5B
- 1Y return
- +37.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.05%
- Holdings
- 40
- Volume · 30D
- 0.7M sh
- NAV per share
- $82.87
- 52W range
The ETF.net RING Grade
Score 71 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 79Category 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 72Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 68Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 43Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on RING
AThe low-fee way to own the gold diggers. RING holds roughly 40 gold mining companies worldwide for 0.39% a year, undercutting most funds in its niche, and it has been running that playbook since 2012.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Solactive Global Gold Explorers & Developers Total Return Index. It invests at least 80% of total assets in securities of companies economically tied to gold exploration.
Why people hold it
- At 0.39% a year it charges less than the typical gold-miner fund, and less than VanEck's GDX and GDXJ, the category's best-known names.ishares.com
- Pure play by design: the index targets companies primarily in the business of gold mining, so you get miners rather than a mixed metals-and-materials basket.ishares.com
- The mandate is global, not US-only, so the portfolio can reach gold producers listed across developed and emerging markets.ishares.com
- Live since 2012, a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, and one of the strongest builds in its precious-metals miner peer group.
Worth knowing
- Roughly 40 stocks in a single industry. The largest miners carry real weight, so one company's bad quarter is felt across the fund.ishares.com
- This is mining equity, not bullion. Alongside the gold price you take on company execution, mine geology, labor and country risk.ishares.com
- Income is an afterthought here: distributions come once or twice a year, not monthly.
RING Holdings
- Stocks
- 40
- 66%
- NEM
Sectors
- Materials100.0%
Geography
- Canada55.88%
- United States25.77%
- South Africa7.85%
- Australia5.82%
- United Kingdom2.98%
- Hong Kong1.29%
- Turkey0.40%
RING Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
RING$13,712
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 | RING |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.4% |
| 1 month | −5.5% |
| 3 months | +22.6% |
| 1 year | +37.1% |
| 3 years | +58.7% |
| 5 years | +30.1% |
| 10 years | +15.6% |
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 | RING |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.4% | |
| 2025 | +164.7% | |
| 2024 | +16.0% | |
| 2023 | +12.3% | |
| 2022 | −15.4% | |
| 2021 | −7.5% | |
| 2020 | +25.0% |
RING in the news
RING Dividends
- 1.05%
- $0.90
- $0.53 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.53 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.28 |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Jun 13, 2023 | $0.21 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $0.28 |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Jun 15, 2022 | $0.23 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $0.33 |
| Jun 10, 2021 | Jun 16, 2021 | $0.31 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | $0.14 |
RING Risk
- 40.8%
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.
- 1.23
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.
- −47.9%
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.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
RING Cost
0.39%
RING0.39%
- The middle half of Precious Metals Miners funds
- Median 0.52%
3 of the 18 Precious Metals Miners funds charge less.