iShares Silver Trust
$58.35−2.38 (−3.91%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $32.4B
- 1Y return
- +51.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
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- Volume · 30D
- 18.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $59.28
- 52W range
The ETF.net SLV Grade
Score 68 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.BScore 67Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 95Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 33Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 60Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.Not scoredDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 84Category rank
Our read on SLV
BSilver, unbundled: real bars sitting with a custodian, a share price that shadows the LBMA Silver Price less a 0.50% fee. Trading since 2006 and one of the busiest commodity funds on the tape, it's the default way people put silver in a brokerage account.
The Trust seeks to reflect the performance of silver prices before its expenses and liabilities. Its assets consist primarily of silver held by a custodian.
Why people hold it
- The deep end of the silver pool: running since 2006, a multi-billion-dollar trust, and very actively traded, which is what keeps spreads tight and the options market busy.
- Metal, not machinery. Assets are physical silver held by a custodian and priced off the LBMA Silver Price. No futures roll, no miner earnings, no swap counterparty.sec.gov
- 0.50% a year, under the typical physical-metal trust, and the design is about as plain as it gets: bullion price minus expenses, tracked closely.
Worth knowing
- SIVR runs the same physical-silver idea for 0.30%. The extra fee here buys size and trading depth, not different metal.
- No income. Bullion pays nothing, and the trustee sells silver to cover expenses, so the metal behind each share slowly shrinks.sec.gov
- One metal, one price. Nothing inside the trust cushions a silver drawdown, and silver is a jumpy market by nature.
SLV Holdings
- Other
- —
- 100%
- Physical Silver
SLV Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
SLV$15,167
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 | SLV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −5.7% |
| 1 month | −3.2% |
| 3 months | +3.1% |
| 1 year | +51.7% |
| 3 years | +41.2% |
| 5 years | +23.7% |
| 10 years | +12.4% |
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 | SLV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −5.7% | |
| 2025 | +144.7% | |
| 2024 | +20.9% | |
| 2023 | −1.1% | |
| 2022 | +2.4% | |
| 2021 | −12.5% | |
| 2020 | +47.3% |
SLV in the news
SLV Dividends
No distributions in the last 12 months.
SLV Risk
- 34.9%
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.
- 1.00
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.
- −52.3%
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.
- 1.26
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SLV Cost
0.50%
SLV0.50%
- The middle half of Physical Commodities funds
- Median 0.60%
2 of the 9 Physical Commodities funds charge less.