iShares Semiconductor ETF
$564.39−8.39 (−1.46%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.33%
- Fund size
- $48.5B
- 1Y return
- +113.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.22%
- Holdings
- 30
- Volume · 30D
- 9.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $559.51
- 52W range
The ETF.net SOXX Grade
Score 75 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 83Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 68Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 45Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 84Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 73Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 96Category rank
Our read on SOXX
AThe original chip ETF, running since 2001 and still one of the most heavily traded ways to own the semiconductor complex: roughly 30 US-listed names, from chip designers to the equipment makers who supply them.
The Fund is designed to follow an index of U.S.-listed companies operating in the semiconductor sector.
Why people hold it
- Live since 2001, it is one of the longest-running semiconductor funds and now a multi-billion-dollar one, with heavy daily volume that typically keeps bid-ask spreads narrow.
- 0.33% a year, slightly under the typical fee among semiconductor ETFs.
- A clean pure play: the index tracks US-listed semiconductor companies only, roughly 30 of them, spanning the chip value chain rather than one slice of it.ishares.com
- On cost, liquidity and index execution together, it stands among the stronger builds in a crowded semiconductor field.
Worth knowing
- One sector, roughly 30 stocks, non-diversified by design. Moves are bigger than a broad market fund's in both directions.ishares.com
- Cheaper chip funds exist: SOXQ charges 0.19% and CHPS 0.15%, so part of this fee buys the deeper trading pool rather than the exposure itself.
- Not an income vehicle. Chipmakers tend to pay modest dividends, and the fund distributes quarterly.ishares.com
SOXX Holdings
- Stocks
- 30
- 61%
- INTC
Sectors
- Technology100.0%
Geography
- United States83.92%
- Taiwan7.13%
- Netherlands5.40%
- Cayman Islands1.56%
- United Kingdom0.74%
- Switzerland0.64%
- Israel0.61%
SOXX Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
SOXX$21,295
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 | SOXX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +90.5% |
| 1 month | +10.2% |
| 3 months | −12.5% |
| 1 year | +113.0% |
| 3 years | +55.6% |
| 5 years | +30.7% |
| 10 years | +32.9% |
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 | SOXX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +90.5% | |
| 2025 | +40.7% | |
| 2024 | +12.9% | |
| 2023 | +67.1% | |
| 2022 | −35.1% | |
| 2021 | +44.1% | |
| 2020 | +52.7% |
SOXX in the news
SOXX Dividends
- 0.22%
- $1.25
- $0.33 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.54 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.48 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.36 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.55 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.37 |
SOXX Risk
- 38.2%
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.
- 1.04
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.
- −45.8%
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.
- 2.24
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SOXX Cost
0.33%
SOXX0.33%
- The middle half of Semiconductors funds
- Median 0.60%
4 of the 25 Semiconductors funds charge less.