iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF
$99.73−0.23 (−0.24%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Fund size
- $16.3B
- 1Y return
- +1.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.97%
- Holdings
- 25
- Volume · 30D
- 1M sh
- NAV per share
- $99.96
- 52W range
The ETF.net STIP Grade
Score 79 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 98Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 61Category 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.AScore 95Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 70Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 90Category rank
Our read on STIP
AThe short-fuse inflation hedge. STIP holds only inflation-linked Treasuries maturing inside five years, keeping the inflation link while sidestepping most of the long-bond rate swings. Three basis points a year.
The fund seeks to track an index of U.S. Treasury inflation-protected securities with maturities under five years, offering inflation hedging while managing duration risk.
Why people hold it
- Three basis points a year, roughly a quarter of the typical fee in its Treasury ETF group. On cost, this is near the floor for bond funds.
- Maturities capped under five years by design, so the inflation adjustment stays and the long-duration price swings largely do not.
- Running since 2010, a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively. Plain index construction, US Treasuries only.
- Sits in the upper half of the Treasury bond ETFs we cover, one of the stronger short-maturity builds in that group.
Worth knowing
- Short bonds accrue less inflation compensation than long-dated TIPS, and prices still move with real yields. This is a dampened hedge, not a pure one.
- Distributions are irregular. Payouts ride the inflation adjustment, so income arrives lumpy rather than as a steady check.
- Around 25 bonds, all at the front of the curve. SCHP spans the full TIPS maturity range for the same 0.03%.
STIP Holdings
- Bonds
- 25
- 50%
- TREASURY (CPI) NOTE 1.13% 10/15/2030
Geography
- United States100.00%
STIP Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
STIP$10,149
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 | STIP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.2% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −0.2% |
| 1 year | +1.5% |
| 3 years | +4.8% |
| 5 years | +3.0% |
| 10 years | +3.0% |
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 | STIP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.2% | |
| 2025 | +6.0% | |
| 2024 | +4.8% | |
| 2023 | +4.6% | |
| 2022 | −3.0% | |
| 2021 | +5.7% | |
| 2020 | +5.2% |
STIP in the news
STIP Dividends
- 4.97%
- $4.97
- $0.74 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.74 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.97 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $1.14 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.57 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.35 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.39 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Sep 2, 2025 | Sep 5, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Aug 6, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | $0.40 |
STIP Risk
- 1.7%
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.
- 0.22
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.
- −5.5%
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.
- 0.21
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
STIP Cost
0.03%
STIP0.03%
- The middle half of TIPS funds
- Median 0.10%
No TIPS fund charges less.